Technical note:    10104
  Created:           05/11/95 by Topher
  Last modified:     07/07/95 by Brian
  Operating system:  Windows

Microsoft Windows can sometimes be prone to a wide variety of crashes,
glitches, GPF´s, and other assorted weirdness.  Here´s a list of
things to try if you're seeing those sorts of problems when you run
Netscape:

First, edit your NETSCAPE.INI file and change the "Use Asynch DNS"
line to "No".  This sometimes works magic in getting things to work,
since some configurations of Windows networking software will fall
over at the first sight of asynchronous DNS.  Also, if you do this,
make sure you set "Max Connections" to "1".  (Both of these settings
are in the "[Network]" section of the INI file.)

You should edit your CONFIG.SYS file to have:

  FILES=40        (or better)
  BUFFERS=40      (or 10 if you are using SMARTDRV disk caching)
  STACKS=9,256
  SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /P /E:2048

You might need to update the Windows video driver for your video card.
To test whether this is the case, change back to the Windows standard
VGA display mode (by running SETUP from the Windows directory and
changing the display option to VGA), then running Netscape for a while
to see if you still run into problems.  If the problem now goes away,
then contact your video card company for updates to your video driver
software.  Problems have definitely been seen with older Cirrus Logic
and ATI Mach 32 / Mach 64 video drivers.

Sometimes, conflicts can occur with programs that Windows loads when
it starts up.  Check the "LOAD=" and "RUN=