From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 21 09:04:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA26427 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:04:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.visigenic.com (odin.visigenic.com [204.179.98.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA26417 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:04:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from VSI48 (vsi48.visigenic.com [206.64.15.185]) by odin.visigenic.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA10492 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:04:16 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970421090239.00b74810@visigenic.com> X-Sender: toneil@visigenic.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:02:41 -0700 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: "Tim Oneil" Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:00 PM 4/20/97 -0700, you wrote: >I have had to reinstall components of Windows 95 and NT more frequently. > >The most common problem is CTL3D32.DLL, which is different between >Windows95 and NT, and which is badly documented. Terry is absolutely right here, this is one of MS's major blunders. This DLL came about when the thier Xcel (or some product like that) team re-designed the standard UI template, and the MS brass liked it so much they said "this shalt be the new standard." Interestingly enough the UI was totally re-designed a year later for Windows 95. -Tim