Gary
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Re:[BUG] Cant get minimize to work - 2005/09/19 06:24
illumination wrote:
Gary, I'm glad you got it working, that's great 
However I do want to try and figure out what went wrong. I don't understand why you had so much trouble getting it to work. Have you changed anything else on your system other than moving miniMIZE to the startup folder, or setting it to startup automatically?
No changes were made to my system at all. miniMize worked both from my Startup folder and by using the miniMIZE option to load it with windows (via RUN key).
It looks like there is a conflict with something on my system. Whatever it is it is in place when I start minimize manually. When it is started via the RUN key or Startup folder whatever is in conflict hasn't probably fully initialized yet therefore miniMIZE works fine.
I did some research into how things get loaded into Windows. There really is no guarantee in what order a program will start and finish within any of the run locations. Even if a program is the first thing to start it may not be fully initialized when the last program is run. The next program on the run list doesn't wait for the previous program to fully initialize before executing.
Even having miniMIZE in the Startup folder, which is the last place things get loaded from, doesn't mean that previous programs are fully initialized.
There also appears to be other things that get loaded into Windows besides things on the various load lists. Drivers for instance in the Windows Drivers folder. Even though running in Diagnostic Mode, where only basic things are loaded, it is possible that some drivers are still loaded even though the program is not.
If it is the hook that is in conflict maybe understanding what it does could point me to a program/driver whatever on my system that might be the culprit.
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