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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: FileManager Horror Story
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.000906.20135@rei.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:09:06 GMT
- References: <37017@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- asher@qtp.ufl.edu (Robert L. Asher) writes:
-
- >The approximate actions which caused this to happen were:
- >1) In file manager SEARCH for *.exe to find the file to delete
- >2) In a seperate window the *.exe's came up.
- >3) Minimized that window.
- >4) Went into the WINDOWS directory.
- >5) Selected and deleted a single file.
- >6) Pandamonium, Panic and Dispair.
-
- I think it is a major leap in logic to assume that just because you did
- the above steps, Windows decided to wipe itself out. More likely it was
- a coincidence dependent upon what other tasks were in memory, what
- drives you load in CONFIG and AUTOEXEC, and yes, the phase of the moon
- as well.
-
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