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# Windows Icon’s and the QXL

Those of you who have a PC with Windows installed may have noticed that switching between Windows programs and DOS programs can cause the PC to crash. This could hardly be called normal but is quite common. Part of the QXL software runs as a DOS program and so can suffer from this. The fix is to create a PIF and call the SMSQ environment from a Windows icon.