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This file is to try to help you recover your system if (I hope not) the
program will not work or does something strange to your system.
The program works by simply archiving the OS2SYS.INI and OS2.INI files
these are stored in a directory (user specified) as USERNAME.ini. If you
cannot install MUSER.EXE in your system then nothing has been done by this
program to effect your system. If you do sucessfully run the MINSTALL.EXE
program then all that has happened is OS2MUSER.INI has been created in the
current directory and another file called DEFAULT.INI has also been created.
Neither of these files should have caused any problems to the system.
The next step in the installation procedure was to add the approiate lines
to the CONFIG.SYS file. If this was done and you rebooted then things are
more complicated. When OS2 starts up it runs the MUSER program before to much
has happened to the system (still have access to the ini files without any
complications). The program will archive the current ini files as the previous
USERNAME then present a screen to prompt for a new user name. If all was
successful here then MUSER unarchives that users ini files and writes them
over the systems ones. The program then terminates and allows OS2 to start
up with the approiate user desktop installed.
To recover from here requires a boot disk and an editor. You must boot from
disk then edit the CONFIG.SYS file to remove the MUSER line (or copy the backup
config.sys from the backup disk you were asked to create before installing
MUSER). Next you must copy the OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files from the backup
disk (or from anywere else they were copied to) over the ones in
drive:\os2 this will reinstall your ini files. now reboot and everything should
be fine.
If this still hasn't helpped the situation then you can startup with <ALT><F1>
held down which will reinstall the default ini files from installation time.
!!!! This will lose any customisations that you have done !!!!
If this all still fails then you are on your own. Please send me a full
description of what happened so that I can try to identify the problem and
correct it for the future.
Hope this has helped if you had any problems
If not then I am sorry but it does work on my computer.
Mark Harvey