PRJ98: Microsoft Project Stops Responding Creating New Calendar

ID: q177024

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, if you create a new calendar for an inserted project, you may receive the following error.

In Windows 95:

This Program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program vendor
If you click the Details button, the following information will be displayed:
WINPROJ caused an invalid page fault in module WINPROJ.EXE at 0137:301332d9.

On Windows NT:

An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated.

Winproj.exe
Exception: access violation(0x0000005), Address: 0x301332d9


CAUSE

This problem occurs when your are in a project that contains at least one inserted project and you create a new calendar for the inserted project.


WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, open the inserted project file in its own window and create the new calendar there rather than in the consolidated file. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. On the File menu, click Open.


  2. Select the inserted project, and then click Open.


  3. On the Tools menu, click Change Working Time.


  4. Click New.


After you create the calendar, you can return to the consolidated file.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Project listed above.

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Project 98 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1).

For additional information about obtaining and installing SR-1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q185102
TITLE : PRJ98: How to Obtain and Install MS Project 98 SR-1


MORE INFORMATION

Additional query words: ipf crash 


Keywords          : projwin 
Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: July 16, 1999