Stack overflow error

This warning crops up amazingly often, but it’s usually intermittent and non-fatal so people tend not to complain.

It happens when memory reserved for internal communication between Windows and certain hardware devices is used up.

Try this quick fix: go to Start / Run, type SYSEDIT and press [Enter].

Click on the CONFIG.SYS window.

Look for a line beginning ‘STACKS=’. If there isn’t one, create it anywhere. Make the line: STACKS=64,512

Select Save on the File menu. Close Sysedit. The change takes effect after rebooting and increases the size of the problematic memory buffer.

If you still see errors, follow the troubleshooting steps in Knowledge Base article Q145799.

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