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- From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
- Subject: Re: autostartup - it's gone on too long!
- Sender: news@hpuerca.atl.hp.com ( News admin)
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:50:34 GMT
- Distribution: comp
- References: <TNT.92Dec16111557@netcom.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta GA
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- In article <TNT.92Dec16111557@netcom.com>, tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner) writes:
- > a friend _still_ has apps starting up that he setup to autostart under
- > os/2 1.3. he does not want them to startup and neither he nor i can get
- > them to stop coming up at startup. if anyone can help us stop them please
- > send me a note.
- >
- > background: he migrated his 1.3 desktop to 2.0 when he installed it (this
- > was last spring.summer) and these apps that he formerly wanted to have
- > start up were still coming up. there is no obvious way to stop them. he
- > has restartobjects set to startupfoldersonly and this does nothing to fix
- > this problem.
- >
- > my best guess is that the problem requires some work with an ini file
- > editor. has anyone tried this route?
-
- I assume that he has modified/removed the STARTUP.CMD file in the root directory?
- This is how I autostart applications under 1.3
-
- simon
-