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Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2002 05:04:10 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Boot hang: spoke too soon

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Wayne,

Haven't heard from you in a couple of days. Does that mean that the boot
hang problem has not reoccurred? Hope so anyway!!

HCM
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> In my last post, I had been able to get checkini to delete all but one bad
> entry, and had great hopes that my hang problem was behind me.
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> During the discussions on my bootup hang, I also looked at a question about
> screen saver, and decided to set my system up in screensaver mode too (ie,
> without filling in a password).
> Seemed to be working fine. Today I left the computer alone about 2 hours,
> and when I pressed the enter key to get rid of the black screen with the
> little padlock, it asked me to enter my password.
> After a couple of iterations of that conversation, I decided to do what it
> said to do if I "forgot" my password (in my case, I never had one) and
> cycled the computer off/on and rebooted.
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> Well, it took me 4 boot attempts to get past the "blue screen" hang.
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> I ran checkini and there were a couple of bad entries found, neither of
> consequence. So then I ran cleanini and it deleted perhaps a dozen entries.
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> I've now turned off the screensaver off.
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> Question: what about handles to drives that are not on thiscomputer, such
> as a network drive or a cdrom or a floppy.... I had been skipping those
> devices, should they be deleted as well?
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> Wayne
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