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- This file is to try to help you recover your system if (I hope not) the
- program will not work or does something strange to your system.
-
- The program works by simply archiving the OS2SYS.INI and OS2.INI files
- these are stored in a directory (user specified) as USERNAME.ini. If you
- cannot install MUSER.EXE in your system then nothing has been done by this
- program to effect your system. If you do sucessfully run the MINSTALL.EXE
- program then all that has happened is OS2MUSER.INI has been created in the
- current directory and another file called DEFAULT.INI has also been created.
- Neither of these files should have caused any problems to the system.
-
- The next step in the installation procedure was to add the approiate lines
- to the CONFIG.SYS file. If this was done and you rebooted then things are
- more complicated. When OS2 starts up it runs the MUSER program before to much
- has happened to the system (still have access to the ini files without any
- complications). The program will archive the current ini files as the previous
- USERNAME then present a screen to prompt for a new user name. If all was
- successful here then MUSER unarchives that users ini files and writes them
- over the systems ones. The program then terminates and allows OS2 to start
- up with the approiate user desktop installed.
-
- To recover from here requires a boot disk and an editor. You must boot from
- disk then edit the CONFIG.SYS file to remove the MUSER line (or copy the backup
- config.sys from the backup disk you were asked to create before installing
- MUSER). Next you must copy the OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files from the backup
- disk (or from anywere else they were copied to) over the ones in
- drive:\os2 this will reinstall your ini files. now reboot and everything should
- be fine.
-
- If this still hasn't helpped the situation then you can startup with <ALT><F1>
- held down which will reinstall the default ini files from installation time.
- !!!! This will lose any customisations that you have done !!!!
-
- If this all still fails then you are on your own. Please send me a full
- description of what happened so that I can try to identify the problem and
- correct it for the future.
-
- Hope this has helped if you had any problems
- If not then I am sorry but it does work on my computer.
- Mark Harvey