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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!openwx!mikel
- From: mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere)
- Subject: Re: autostartup - it's gone on too long!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.025659.8907@networx.com>
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- Organization: NetWorx
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- References: <TNT.92Dec16111557@netcom.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:56:59 GMT
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- Terry Turner (tnt@netcom.com) wrote:
- : 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?
- :
- : --
- : terry
- : tnt@netcom.com
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- OS/2 1.3 did not have the startup folder, it used a file named \STARTUP.CMD.
- OS/2 2.0 still observes this, it runs it before the stuff in the startup
- folder. I bet you have an old
-
- C:\STARTUP.CMD
-
- that still starts the old stuff. Kill it.
-