Re: VS.NET and 64 Bit AMD Athlon

From: Sammy (sammy_71_at_NoSpamMSN.com)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:01:13 -0600

The problem was caused by Mcafee Virus Scanner Version 8.0
I disabled Buffer Overflow Protection and everything runs OK now.

"Sammy" <sammy_71@NoSpamMSN.com> wrote in message
news:OWvsoEE$EHA.1264@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi guys
> I am having a problem with VS.Net 2003
> Machine specs are as follow
> AMD 64 Bit Athlon
> Nividia GetForce4 Video card
> Windows XP Sp2
> now my problem with VS.Net is whenever i develop a windows application and
> use Message Box or Combo Box, i can not see the text on messagebox buttons
> or the message in the message box
> all show nothing at all, one other thing i can not see is the combobox
> items.
> if i want to see any of the values i have to run devenv.exe on windows
> 2000 compatibility ( right click, properties, then Run this program in
> compatibility mode (windows 2000) and i will have to do the same for
> output exe files.
> on the other PC (everything is identical but its a 32 Bit systemboard) and
> everything runs fine thats why i am assuming this is happening because
> this laptop is a 64 bit athlon.
> last thing is when i run vs.net in safe mode everything works OK
> any ideas or hints would be appreciated?
>