You receive general protection (GP) fault error messages in various applications in Microsoft Windows 95.

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These errors can occur if, in Windows 95, you are using a Windows version 3.1 video driver that supports bitmaps.

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To work around this situation, use one of the following methods:

•	Use one of the video drivers supplied with Windows 95 (such as the standard VGA driver).
•	Contact the manufacturer of the Windows 3.1 video driver about obtaining a video driver for Windows 95.
•	If the video driver supports device bitmaps, disable this support. To do this, you must run a utility that is shipped with your video card. Please contact your video card manufacturer for more information. NOTE: This method has worked on computers with the following video cards: - Apian Renegade 1280 ISA

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This situation is most likely caused by design changes in Windows 95. Microsoft has confirmed that it is not caused by a problem in Windows

1.	For more information about resolving this issue, contact your

video card manufacturer.

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