Some time ago, Sandra Wambold wrote... If I am not mistaken, the non-starting problem has to do with driver DLLs smuggled by the system into the address space of the process, so that the heap cannot be recreated at the same address as it was dumped from. This problem has no cure, except for the portable dumper, which, IMO, works more or less (please correct me if I am wrong again; I spent more time outside xemacs lately). Question for which I am crossposting this to xemacs-beta: what's up with the portable dumper? Last time I tried it, there was no definitive algorithm for locating the xemacs.dmp file; when I grepped through my beta mailbox starting from March, I found nothing relevant (unventive regexp?). -kkm