A Lock Occurs Between Two Threads of System GDI in Windows 2000

If a user process saves or makes EUDC with the EnableEUDC API, your computer may stop responding (hang).

This problem may occur if a lock occurs between one drawing process and another drawing process. One thread of the first process is waiting on a lock that is held by another thread of the second process. The second process is also waiting on a lock that is held by the first thread.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Release Date: July 26, 2002

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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