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Windows ME hangs, "ddhelp.exe" not responding
Name: Tony van Kessel Date: November 17, 2000 at 17:39:41 Pacific
Comment:
Win ME regularly (once or more per day) hangs up as it's going to the screen saver: black screen, cursor visible and can be moved.
Ctrl-Alt-Del always shows "ddhelp.exe" as not responding. Ending the task solves the problem.
Anyone else seen this? Any known solutions? What is ddhelp.exe for anyway?
Thanks Tony 5-month old IBM ThinkPad, PIII, 192MB RAM, 11.21G HDD, upgraded a month ago to Win ME from 98.
Name: John P Date: November 18, 2000 at 00:02:36 Pacific
Reply:
Go to this web address. this article will tell you how to start the trouble shooting process. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q267/2/88.asp
ddhelp.exe is used for Direct Draw, You may want to install DirectX 8.0
GOOD Luck John
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Response Number 2
Name: mefrč Date: November 19, 2000 at 06:55:16 Pacific
Reply:
good what's the solution,please
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Response Number 3
Name: man-high Date: December 30, 2000 at 11:57:16 Pacific
Reply:
Technically correct but utterly useless info from Microsoft:
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