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Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:06:30 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Nice-OS/2 Enhancer NotSoNice ?

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Ray thinks his machine is possessed. I *know* San Diego is.

I was supposed to get up to L.A. last night, but about an hour before I
left I figured I'd install the Nice-OS/2 Enhancer which was written up
in the April VOICE magazine.

http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0403H/vnewsf4.htm

Bad idea. The installer ran for two hours (doing something it called
"Applications search") and I finally killed it, then spent five more
hours fixing my machine. I had a backup, so restoring CONFIG.SYS,
OS2*.INI and the dock*.cfg files was easy, but the ten command line
(VIO) windows I keep running to monitor various things wouldn't close.
You close one, it doesn't close but it hangs the machine. Ctl-Alt-Del
doesn't work so you have to hard reboot -- and then wait for CHKDSK /F
on all partitions. After the boot completes, the window you tried to
close is gone but the others are still there and they won't close
either. 10 windows times 30 minutes for each reboot/CHKDSK is five
hours. And my entire Toolbar was gone (it disappears when the Nice-OS/2
Enhancer installer starts). I finally got the Toolbar back by selecting
Tray 1 and rebooting yet again. Unimaint Repair showed the INI's were
clean and I was finally up and running. (sigh)

I *know* this wouldn't have happened if I weren't in S.D.

Anyway, has anyone gotten this thing to install? Are there any tricks?

- Peter

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