What are VxDs ??

[Guest]

In boot up, i get the blue screen with the following message:

Windows
Terminating thread due to a stack overflow problem. A VXD possibly recently installed has consumned too much stack space. Increase the settings of 'MinSps' in system ini or remove recently installed VxDs. There are currently 5 Sps allocated
Press any key to continue.

Anyone know what this message is related to?

 

[bdaley]

Here ya go:

(Virtual Device Driver) A special type of Windows driver that allows Windows to perform functions that cannot be done by applications communicating with Windows in the normal manner. VxDs run at the most privileged CPU mode (ring 0) and allow low-level interaction with the hardware and internal Windows functions, such as memory management.

Like DOS TSRs, poorly-written VxDs can conflict and lock up the system. WIN386.EXE (Win 3.1) and VMM32.VXD (Win 95/98) are the VxD files that provide the primary functions (kernel) in Windows.





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