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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Two PMSHELLs running?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.210803.11018@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 21:08:03 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.171039.2596@colorado.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.171039.2596@colorado.edu> doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight) writes:
- >
- >If I use "procs" it reports that PMSHELL is running twice. Is this normal?
- >I suspect not and that it is a result of an imperfect recovery from a disaster
- >that left me with two desktops.
-
- This is normal. The first instance (Process ID 1, I think) is the PM
- shell that provides the building blocks for GUI-based programs. The
- second instance (Process ID 3, I think) is the WPS, which provides
- your nice shell. If you look in CONFIG.SYS, you'll notice that
- PMSHELL.EXE is run twice - once in the PROTSHELL= line, and once in
- the RUNWORKPPLACE= line.
-
- >How can I tidy up? Killem does nothing on one of these processes and on the
- >other it just shuts down the wps which then restarts itself.
-
- Don't kill them. You can't kill PM, and killing the WPS just makes it
- recycle and come up again.
-
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