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- From: steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: CURE! for no desktop on bootup syndrome
- Message-ID: <14361@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 01:17:26 GMT
- References: <186rqvINNtb@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep4.172851.28982@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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- schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt) writes:
-
- >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).
-
- The problem occures when you have SHADOWS in your startup folder, or restart
- applications that are NOT in your startup folder. If you _copy_ whatever
- you want to run at startup into your startup folder, things will be swell.
-
- I made these changes about 6 weeks ago, and haven't had a problem since.
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- Steven Hayes | steveh@rmit.edu.au
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) | +61 3 660-2693
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