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- From: sam@ms.uky.edu (Mike Mills)
- Subject: Re: CURE! for no desktop on bootup syndrome
- References: <186rqvINNtb@agate.berkeley.edu>
- <1992Sep4.172851.28982@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.203313.1558@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 00:33:13 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt) writes:
-
-
- >In article <186rqvINNtb@agate.berkeley.edu>, stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
-
- >[ stuff about startup problems deleted ]
-
- >I've been fiddling around with this problem for a while. All three
- >machines I work with were 'infected' one day or another.
- >The problem appears to be related to the automatic startup of any
- >kind of application thru any method (startupfolder, automatic restart).
-
- >I can only offer a simple, maybe unacceptable for some people, advice:
- >set RESTARTOBJECTS to STARTUPFOLDERSONLY in config.sys and keep your
- >startupfolder empty.
- >I've never had any problems anymore since having configured all three machines
- >in that way.
-
- >It would be interesting to hear from s.b. who had startup problems (or
- >still has) despite using this configuration...
-
-
- You know, I've been fiddling with this as well. I start two programs from
- my startup folder. Since doing this I've had problems rebooting on occasion;
- PM freezes either with a blank screen or maybe gets a few icons/windows open
- first.
-
- Well, by chance and frustration, I noticed that if I hit a mouse button a
- few times (preferrably the left one, in a corner where you know nothing will
- appear), PM seems to work every time. I wait until the background screen
- pops up, and the black outlines expand out to the corners, and then pull my
- pointer down to a corner and hit the left button a few times. Works every
- time now. Could be coincidence though, I'm not really sure.
-
- Hope this gets fixed in a future release.
-
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