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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!haas.berkeley.edu!stanton
- From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: CURE! for no desktop on bootup syndrome
- Date: 4 Sep 1992 05:22:39 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- I've recently been consistently prey to the syndrome where on bootup I see
- a grey screen, then it looks like a new grey screen gets put on top of the
- old one, but then nothing further happens and I'm left looking at a blank
- desktop, with a mouse cursor to amuse myself. This used to happen every so
- often, but in the last few days it's happened EVERY time I reboot. The
- only cure I had found was to wait (I don't know if C-esc made any difference)
- until I got the message "Desktop not reponding to requests", when I could type
- cancel, and the desktop would rebuild itself.
-
- Well, I just cured the problem, so thought I'd share my solution, as I know
- others have the same problem. Of course, it may not work for others...
-
- Step 1) Make sure you have a floppy boot diskette and a little text editor
- available on floppy
-
- Step 2) Edit CONFIG.SYS, and REM out the AUTOSTART line
-
- Step 3) Shut down and reboot
-
- At this point, you'll just get a grey screen, but interestingly if you
- press C-Esc you'll get an (empty) window list. However, you can't do
- anything with it.
-
- Step 4) Now reboot using C-A-D (this seems to be the only way) after
- inserting boot diskette
-
- Step 5) Remove the REM from the AUTOSTART statement in your CONFIG.SYS file
- on drive C:, remove the diskette, and reboot.
-
- This worked for me. Let me know if it helps anyone else
-
- Richard Stanton
-