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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Different desktop popup menu!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.204915.27904@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 20:49:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec25.205608.6313@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec25.205608.6313@cdf.toronto.edu> g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis) writes:
- > I am having a problem with the desktop. I can't get the desktop popup
- > menu the way I used to. All I get now is:
- ...
-
- It sounds as if WPS no longer sees your "desktop" directory as your
- true desktop. Try this to create a new desktop:
-
- 1) look in /OS2 and find the file INI20.RC. Copy this file somewhere
- and edit it. Keep all the lines that just have double-quotes on
- them. Keep the line that creates the object "OS/2 2.0 Desktop".
- Delete all the other lines.
-
- 2) Insert the following command in config.sys: CALL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
-
- 3) Reboot. You'll be dropped at a prompt.
-
- 4) Locate your "OS!2 2.0 Desktop" directory. It should be in the root
- of your C: drive. Rename it.
-
- 5) Run MAKEINI.EXE using the modified INI20.RC file you just made.
- The syntax is: MAKEINI OS2.INI <your ini.rc filename>.
-
- 6) Reboot. You'll be dropped at a prompt. Check to see that a new
- "OS!2 2.0 Desktop" directory now exists. Move the directory that
- used to be your previous desktop into this one with the MOVE
- command.
-
- 7) Type "EXIT" to finish booting into WPS.
-
- 8) You should have a working desktop, with your old desktop being a
- folder on it someplace (it will probably be a desk-shaped folder).
- Move all the icons out of the old desktop folder into the new one
- and trash the old one. You should be done. Check that your menu
- is restored.
-
- This is the only solution I know of that will really work. Deleting
- EA's is dumb, since you clobber more than the desktop when doing so.
- This process actually creates a new desktop, which is much safer than
- blindly erasing things.
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