Desktop heap bug.

> If you look at this article:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184802/EN-US/
> you'll see a description of a registry setting that can be used to adjust
> the desktop heap sizes.
>
> There is a field with 3 defined values,
> SharedSection=1024,3072,512and all the XP Pro systems that I have examined
> have that field. But, if I look at any XPe system the field has 4 values,
> SharedSection=1024,3072,512,512and I can't find any definition of the
> fourth value. I suspect that this is an XPe bug or feature. I'm thinking
> bug because the third value is optional and XPe might be adding ',512' to
> the end of the field assuming that the third value won't be present. I'm
> thinking feature because these values define the shared, interactive, and
> non-interactive desktop heap sizes, and maybe there is a fourth desktop
> heap in XPe.
>
> This is truely an arcane question, but maybe someone has the answer.
> Certainly, adjusting the desktop heap sizes isn't an odd thing to do.
> There are lots of articles describing how to do it. It was surprising,
> however, to see the fourth field in the XPe registry. I'd like to find
> out what's going on.
>
> --
> Regards.
> Mark K Vallevand Mark.Vallevand@Unisys.com
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