It is the abnormal end you are doing causing the damage. You need to write
code that lets you better trap for errors so you don't get the lockups or
you need to learn how not to have that happen in interactive paradox if
that is where you have the issue. Hard to tell you exactly without more
info on what you are doing to "break" the program.
Also, with win 9x you need to turn off the write behind caching on
Windows.
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