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FIX: An access violation may occur in the Control.exe application on a Windows Embedded CE 6.0 based-device when you open and close items in Control Panel quickly and repeatedly

Article ID: 952264 - View products that this article applies to.

SYMPTOMS

When you open and close items in Control Panel quickly and repeatedly, an access violation may occur in the Control.exe application of a Windows Embedded CE 6.0 based-device. This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:

The CPU clock runs in a very slow mode of about 10 megahertz (MHz).
The thread quantum is reduced to about 2.5 milliseconds.

Additionally, if you debug the device in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, you notice that one of the returned messages resembles the following:

Exception type : Access Violation
Exception code : 0xc0000005
Exception address : 0x4006bf20
Return address : 0x00000000
PC : 0x00000000
Disasm :
Current thread : 0x8d5e436c WinMainCRTStartup
Current process : control.exe
Owner process : control.exe
Previous process : control.exe
+DEFECT:CRASH:ACCESS_VIOLATION:BAD_ADDRESS:control.exe:

Note To debug the device in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, click Target Control on the Target menu, and then type !diagnose all at the command prompt.

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RESOLUTION

Software update information

A supported software update is now available from Microsoft as Windows CE 6.0 Platform Builder Monthly Update (July 2008). You can confirm this by scrolling to the "File information" section of this article. The package file name contains the product version, date, Knowledge Base article number, and processor type. The package file name format is:

Product version-yymmdd-kbnnnnnn-processor type

For example: Wincepb50-060503-kb917590-armv4i.msi is the ARMV4i Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder fix that is documented in KB article 917590 and that is contained in the May 2006 monthly update. To resolve this problem immediately, click the following article number for information about obtaining Windows CE Platform Builder and core operating system software updates:

837392

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837392/ )

How to locate core operating system fixes for Microsoft Windows CE Platform Builder products

Prerequisites

This update is supported only if all previously issued updates for this product have also been installed.

Restart requirement

After you apply this update, you must perform a clean build of the whole platform. To do this, use one of the following methods:

On the Build menu, click Clean, and then click Build Platform.
On the Build menu, click Rebuild Platform.

You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

Update replacement information

This update does not replace any other updates.

File information

The English version of this software update package has the file attributes or the later file attributes that are listed in the following table:

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File name	File size	Date	Time
Wincepb60-080728-kb952264-armv4i.msi	1,297,920	29-Jul-2008	21:49
Wincepb60-080728-kb952264-mipsii.msi	1,262,080	29-Jul-2008	21:49
Wincepb60-080728-kb952264-mipsii_fp.msi	1,263,104	29-Jul-2008	21:49
Wincepb60-080728-kb952264-mipsiv.msi	1,276,928	29-Jul-2008	21:49
Wincepb60-080728-kb952264-mipsiv_fp.msi	1,278,976	29-Jul-2008	21:49
Wincepb60-080728-kb952264-sh4.msi	1,190,912	29-Jul-2008	21:49
Wincepb60-080728-kb952264-x86.msi	1,106,944	29-Jul-2008	21:49

The English version of this software update package has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

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File name	File size	Date	Time	Path
Appverifier.cpp	32,476	23-Jul-2008	19:28	Private\Winceos\Coreos\Core\Dll
Coremain.lib	721,110	23-Jul-2008	19:24	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Armv4i\Debug
Kcoremain.lib	643,644	23-Jul-2008	19:24	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Armv4i\Debug
Coremain.lib	577,710	23-Jul-2008	19:23	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Armv4i\Retail
Kcoremain.lib	520,290	23-Jul-2008	19:23	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Armv4i\Retail
Coremain.lib	682,226	23-Jul-2008	19:24	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsii\Debug
Kcoremain.lib	611,150	23-Jul-2008	19:24	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsii\Debug
Coremain.lib	559,196	23-Jul-2008	19:24	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsii\Retail
Kcoremain.lib	509,040	23-Jul-2008	19:24	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsii\Retail
Coremain.lib	682,494	23-Jul-2008	19:25	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsii_fp\Debug
Kcoremain.lib	611,408	23-Jul-2008	19:25	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsii_fp\Debug
Coremain.lib	559,468	23-Jul-2008	19:25	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsii_fp\Retail
Kcoremain.lib	509,204	23-Jul-2008	19:25	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsii_fp\Retail
Coremain.lib	691,756	23-Jul-2008	19:26	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsiv\Debug
Kcoremain.lib	620,402	23-Jul-2008	19:26	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsiv\Debug
Coremain.lib	571,868	23-Jul-2008	19:26	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsiv\Retail
Kcoremain.lib	521,170	23-Jul-2008	19:26	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsiv\Retail
Coremain.lib	692,024	23-Jul-2008	19:27	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsiv_fp\Debug
Kcoremain.lib	620,660	23-Jul-2008	19:27	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsiv_fp\Debug
Coremain.lib	572,140	23-Jul-2008	19:26	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsiv_fp\Retail
Kcoremain.lib	521,334	23-Jul-2008	19:26	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Mipsiv_fp\Retail
Coremain.lib	585,688	23-Jul-2008	19:28	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Sh4\Debug
Kcoremain.lib	524,142	23-Jul-2008	19:28	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Sh4\Debug
Coremain.lib	499,812	23-Jul-2008	19:27	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Sh4\Retail
Kcoremain.lib	454,470	23-Jul-2008	19:27	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\Sh4\Retail
Coremain.lib	583,348	23-Jul-2008	19:23	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\X86\Debug
Kcoremain.lib	526,590	23-Jul-2008	19:23	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\X86\Debug
Coremain.lib	501,214	23-Jul-2008	19:22	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\X86\Retail
Kcoremain.lib	456,408	23-Jul-2008	19:22	Public\Common\Oak\Lib\X86\Retail