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Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:48:51 PST7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: pmshell corruption

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>Peter and Steven are both right. You should regularly backup (once a
>week??) and restore your OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files, if and when
>required, as the best solution to your problem. I also backup the desktop
>files (C:\Desktop\*.* in my case).

>However, it is also likely you are getting quite a bit of corruption
>periodically in these files. It could be that you are changing your
>system configuration and setup up a lot and that's causing a lot of
>orphans in OS2.INI. I suggest you use UniMaint.exe, checkini.exe and
>cleanini.exe to regularly cleanup the OS2.INI file (you need all 3). I've
>been doing that regularly and I have not had to restore my OS2*.INI files
>in a long time. I often make changes on my system.

You are right about that. I have been doing a lot of changing around.

I do use Unimaint, and I will use it more often.

I tried using checkini and cleanini, but I got a bunch of error messages,
and I gave up on those programs.

Sandy

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