DECMON Can Cause Spoolss to Generate an Access Violation

   Application exception occurred:

           App: spoolss.DBG (pid=87)
           When: 5/9/1996 @ 16:38:2.449
           Exception number: c0000005 (access violation)
				

CAUSE

DECMON.DLL causes Spoolss to generate an Access Violation error. Spoolss uses many DLLs to communicate with printers, so any of those *.dll files can contain a problem.

To find where the error was in the case of Decmon.dll, search for the keyword FAULT in the following stack back trace:

  function: wvsprintfW
          77eb3ea2 83c602           add     esi,0x2
          77eb3ea5 85c9             test    ecx,ecx
          77eb3ea7 0f8e7b04ffff     jle     wvsprintfW+0xb2 (77ea4328)
          77eb3ead ebdf             jmp     wvsprintfW+0x1c3 (77eb3e8e)
          77eb3eaf 8345ec04         add   dword ptr [ebp-0x14],0x4
  ss:00a7e08e=????????
          77eb3eb3 8b45ec           mov     eax,[ebp-0x14]
  ss:00a7e08e=????????
          77eb3eb6 b9ffffffff       mov     ecx,0xffffffff
          77eb3ebb 8b50fc           mov     edx,[eax-0x4]
  ds:0046e922=????????
          77eb3ebe 2bc0             sub     eax,eax
          77eb3ec0 8bfa             mov     edi,edx
  FAULT ->77eb3ec2 f2ae             repne   scasb
  es:001a0000=??
          77eb3ec4 f7d1             not     ecx
          77eb3ec6 49               dec     ecx
          77eb3ec7 837df000         cmp   dword ptr [ebp-0x10],0x0
  ss:00a7e08e=????????
          77eb3ecb 894df4           mov     [ebp-0xc],ecx
  ss:00a7e08e=????????
          77eb3ece 7c0a             jl      wvsprintfW+0x20f (77eb3eda)
          77eb3ed0 8b45f0           mov     eax,[ebp-0x10]
  ss:00a7e08e=????????
          77eb3ed3 3bc1             cmp     eax,ecx
          77eb3ed5 7d03             jge     wvsprintfW+0x20f (77eb3eda)
          77eb3ed7 8945f4           mov     [ebp-0xc],eax
  ss:00a7e08e=????????
          77eb3eda 8b45f4           mov     eax,[ebp-0xc]
  ss:00a7e08e=????????
          77eb3edd 2945f8           sub     [ebp-0x8],eax
  ss:00a7e08e=????????

  *----> Stack Back Trace <----*

  FramePtr ReturnAd Param#1  Param#2  Param#3  Param#4  Function Name
  0060f76c 775871a0 0060f780 7758cb38 0060ff5c 00650067 user32!wvsprintfW
  [omap]
  0060ff50 7756d0bf 7758cb0c 00000037 0019ffc4 01a42ab4 decpsmon!trace