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- From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (m.l. gore)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Just what IS Alt-F1 (was Re: Multiple Desktops....)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.120311.219601@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 12:03:11 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 36
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- >I've heard a number of references to this infamous Alt-F1-at-bootup sequence
- >and was curious as to what it did exactly. (I've heard that it disallows
- >program starts and I've also heard it erases the Svgadata.pmi file)
- >
- >So what does it do?
- >
- >Mike
- >
-
- Hitting the ALT-F1 sequence will over write you OS2.INI and you OS2SYS.INI
- Files with the origional ones stored in the \OS2\Install dir..
-
- These two files are returned to thier origional state, and you loose every
- thing you have added to the WPS.
-
- It is much wiser to back these files on boot, usng Call and Xcopy in the
- Config.Sys. This is demonstrated on the installation guide.
-
- THis way, if you corrupt these fi;es, gothrough the 5 min floppy boot, adn
- over write them with the last set of good ones, keeping most if not all of
- you desktop in place.
-
- later,
-
- bvl
-
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