RE: NT problems

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>Regarding dragon dictate 3.x on NT4.0: because it still relies on 16
>bit code (I thought 3.0 was supposed to be fully 32 bit), it is running
>under a DOS process on NT known as Windows on Windows ("WOW").
>Starting with NT4.0, the default WOW behavior changed from "new DOS
>process each time" to "share single DOS process". This was probably
>changed merely to save overall memory consumption, but by sharing a
>single DOS process the effect of memory leaks is worsened. If there
>are leaks in DOS code, then changing your system to "new DOS process
>each time" should make it possible to completely recover memory usage
>by quitting the program involved. Under the default NT4.0 WOW
>behavior, rebooting is necessary to clear up DOS related problems
>(unless you kill the shared DOS process manually, which then kills all
>DOS processes).


How do you change this?


Thanks,


Dana
dana@@sybase.com


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