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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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