* Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.2.
Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu
-is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menu items is not
+is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menus is not
displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is
synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while
waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or
pop-up menu interaction.
+Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text
+for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows.
+
There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the
mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first
frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame
Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later,
when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is
required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and
-its loaded very early in the startup procedure.)
+it's loaded very early in the startup procedure.)
Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc
file could fail to load if it is compressed.
AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set
to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt.
-* Under some Windows X-servers, Emacs' display is incorrect
+* Emacs crashes when using the Exceed 6.0 X server
+
+If you are using Exceed 6.1, upgrade to a later version. This was
+reported to prevent the crashes.
+
+* Under some Windows X-servers, Emacs' display is incorrect
The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the
screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective
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