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WOW Applications Calling KillTimer() API May Leak Memory

Article ID: 157742

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q157742

SYMPTOMS

When you run 16-bit Windows applications on Windows NT, these programs can use up memory by requesting and never releasing memory. This problem may occur if that application makes a call to the Killtimer() API. This problem only occurs in Windows NT 4.0.

RESOLUTION

Stop the Windows on Windows (WOW) application using either Task Manager or Pviewer.exe.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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