full-disclosure - MS update 330994

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From: chows at ozemail.com.au (Gregh)
Subject: MS update 330994

I have been doing a little testing here recently on a clean Win XPSP1
system.

What I have found is that, when the CPU is under excessive load (mine being
a P4 1.7Ghz) even though I have 512megs DDR, I get a failure of Windows. It
does the "explorer fault" routine, your task bar disappears from your screen
as do all your desktop icons and then the whole lot come back BUT the
running programs in the tray that don't respond well to this event never
show up. That has been a minor source of irritation to me.

When testing, I have been removing and adding different things one at a
time. Finally I got to MS Critical Update 330994 and removed it to see if it
had any effect. It has been about 3 days now of LARGE load on this same
machine, 24 hours a day and it hasn't faulted once. Therefore, I am only
assuming, at this point, that 330994 was the problem as these crashes under
load only ever seemed to happen when OE was also running.

Would some kind person be able to install 330994 for me, put massive load on
your machine and have OE running and using it and see if your machine faults
in the same way then uninstall it, put the same load on and OE in use again
and see if it remains OK for me? I have a sneaking suspicion that 330994 may
have to be redone.

Thanks for any input. I would have tested this on my XP laptop but it
decided, over Xmas, to go to Heaven and of course this time of year, who can
get a new motherboard? :(

Greg.