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- From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
- Subject: Desktop: now you see it. Now you don't. Why???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.035047.12917@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:50:47 GMT
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- Something odd and irritating happened to my OS/2 desktop.
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- When I restart my computer, it boots etc. I get a startup.cmd window.
- The desktop flashes grey as usual, then returns to the desktop color.
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- So far so good.
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- Now the system does one of two things:
- 1. finishes the startup, and puts all my icons and stuff on screen
- 2. sits there and does nothing. No icons etc. Moving the startup.cmd
- window or ctrl-esc hangs PM until a "Desktop not responding" window comes up,
- and I can kill it.
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- So where does my desktop go? Bad day? Doesn't feel like coming out to play?
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- Fortunately, I have the startup.cmd window up, and I'm getting used to typeing
- "kill 5" to kill the desktop, and recycle it. It then comes out to play :^)
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- (If I didn't have a startup.cmd window, and kill, I'd be more than irritated!
- at least now I can recover)
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- -I always shutdown properly, even "refresh" before shutting down. No help
- -I rebooted from the install disks etc. and tried chkdsk /f:3 and
- that didn't find any weirdness
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- Any helpful suggestions?
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- jpm: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca
- Happily using OS/2 2.0 because MS Windows isNT ___
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