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Old 10-13-2008, 10:52 AM   #2
Jim Sachs
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Thanks for your work in tracing the problem to the Display Fusion program. Most people would just say, "The Beta crashes Windows Explorer - tell me why!" I would respond by asking if there was any unusual program running which could be affecting the video memory on a deep level. They would answer, no. Only after many hours of back-and-forth questioning would the existance of such a program become known.

It sounds like that Fusion program is fundamentally incompatible with the Aquarium, similar to using Display Properites to change the wallpaper while the Aquarium is running. When the Aquarium starts, it asks the system for resources like video RAM, then assumes that certain items will remain inviolate. If some other program changes the rules of its little universe, it might try to give back memory that it no longer owns, or something similar.

Regarding your enhancement request - probably not. That whole Display Settings section is a Microsoft thing, and it took months to get it working with multimonitors. It's extremely fragile, and I don't really want to mess with it.
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