It may be related to a program called Shrinker, which is supposed to reduce
the size of executables.  See:

http://www.blinkinc.com/shrinker.htm

She may have downloaded a trial program that's available.   In my
troubleshooting others machines I find a lot of the strange messages come
from downloaded software.

Doug


At 4/20/01 08:42 PM, Bettye wrote:

>My sister has begun getting the following message on her computer and
>having to reboot as a result.  It is happening often.  Can you tell me
>about it?  It is "shrinker.err".  They are novices and only have the
>basic, normal stuff on their computer so don't know why they started
>getting this message all of a sudden.  It is a new one to me.

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