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by rwmj 4520 days ago
We had a crazy Windows NT 4.0 + Lotus Notes bug where something in the window manager leaked memory (only when Notes was running). Maximizing and minimizing the Notes window would recover the memory. If you didn't do that, the OS would eventually hang. This was a public-facing server -- why we were running Notes for that is a whole other story of sadness and despair.

Anyway, eventually my colleague wrote a small VB program that maximized and minimized the window every few minutes. Cured the problem.