Re: Bug: can not start a w32 GUI program from Emacs

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > I have been trying different ways to start explorer.exe from Emacs on 
> > w32. I can not find any way that works. It is a quite annoying bug.
> (start-process "explorer" nil "explorer.exe")
>
> Works for me.

I think I know the source of the problem now. It seems to be an MS 
Windows bug. Opening and just closing any menu eats 4 GDI Objects 
(according to Task Manager) that are assigned to explorer.exe. In those 
cases where I have seen the problem XP has been running for quite a 
while and the number of GDI Objects for explorer.exe seems to have meat 
a limit.

I suspected Emacs for quite a long time and I am glad I was wrong ;-)

Have anyone heard of this bug before? Fully patched XP Professional.