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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Desktop: now you see it. Now you don't. Why???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.041804.7627@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University, New York
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:18:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.035047.12917@unixg.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
- >
- >Something odd and irritating happened to my OS/2 desktop.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >So far so good.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >So where does my desktop go? Bad day? Doesn't feel like coming out to play?
- >
- >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 :^)
- >
- >(If I didn't have a startup.cmd window, and kill, I'd be more than irritated!
- >at least now I can recover)
- >
- >-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
- >
- >Any helpful suggestions?
-
- Did you have these problems before installing the new kernel, or are you
- on the old kernel, still?
-
- Did you install the black icon fix?
-
- I already had the black icon fix, but I just installed the new kernel, and I
- have just started having these WPS lockups! Please tell me I did something
- else wrong :-)
-
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