Policy Editor Crashes When Using Large Custom ADM Files

• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you try to save a policy file, Poledit.exe performs an access violation.

CAUSE

A large custom policy template (an ADM file) has been added to enable the configuration of new (custom) policy entries. Because of the way memory is allocated for holding the template in memory, corruption of the template occurs, which makes the policy editor unstable. This corruption results in an access violation when a policy (.pol) file based on this template is saved to disk.

RESOLUTION

A fixed version of the policy editor is available from Microsoft Technical Support.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: 4.00 prodnt GPF General Protection Fault

Keywords : ntsecurity kbfix4.00.sp3 ntconfig NTSrvWkst
Version : 4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug