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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Can't delete an icon
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.235803.1796@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <widow.715365585@camelot>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:58:03 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- Shaun Burnett (widow@camelot.bradley.edu) wrote:
- > In <1992Sep1.004539.2101@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- >
- > >I have tried almost everything and this ICON does not want to go away. If I
- > >move it into a folder and even try and close the folder, the whole system
- > >hangs. I have just downloaded the os2.ini editor from comp.binaries.os2. I
- > >have no idea if this will help me, but it may just do.
- >
- > I was trying to create a shadow of an ICON but ended up
- > creating a copy. This copy just did not want to be deleted
- > via WPS. So I went to an OS/2 command shell, changed to the
- > appropriate directory, and deleted the subdirectory.
-
- This won't work, my object is not in a subdirectory.
-
- BUT SOLUTION:
-
- My heartiest congratualtions go to the author of the recently posted
- INIEDIT. This program will let you edit (and rewrite) your OS2.INI file (or
- any INI file) even though it is in use. I opened OS2.INI, found the
- WP_Abstract:Objects section and looked at every entry. One of them was the
- undeletable object I was after - it was in as an WPS abstract item (like
- the shredder etc) so I just deleted it. A shutdown and a reboot later all
- was OK.
-
- This INIEDIT is an EXCELLENT program, I suggest everybody grab a copy of
- it.
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
-