Hi,
"John J. Xenakis" writes:
...
> I've used emacs on several different systems, including different
> flavors of Windows and xemacs on Linux, with pretty much the same
> macro set, which has been very convenient. I use multiple frames and
> multiple windows very heavily on a day to day basis.
>
> Starting late last year, I started working on a Windows 7 system, and
> emacs worked fine, as usual. However, after about 7-10 days of
> uptime, Windows 7 freaked out with all application windows blinking
> and moving around all over the place. At first I thought it was a
> Windows 7 bug, caused by one of my display settings, and I had to
> reboot the computer. But after it's happened several times over a few
> months, I've finally concluded that it's an emacs bug. It took me a
> long time to find this out, since the bug occurs so infrequently.
>
> Since I'm running 64-bit Windows, what it looks like to me is that
> emacs is using some 64-bit counter as a 32-bit or 16-bit counter
> that's cycling around to zero after several days of heavy use of
> emacs. Somehow, this is causing all the application windows on the
> screen to be screwed up or start blinking like mad.
nothing like that happend to me.
same environment and usage of precompiled binaries from
release http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows
pretest http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
snpashot http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows
for one year.
Martin
