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Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:51:39 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Fresh vs. Fixpak

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Peter Skye wrote:

>A fresh installation:
>
>-- destroys the OS2*.INI files. A number of programs write to the
>OS2.INI file when they install
>
I think more of that is done than is necessary.

>-- zaps the Startup folder. I have about 40 program shadows in mine.
>
I will assume you actually need all of those.

>-- would kill all of the icons I've crafted for the shadows (not the
>icons on the originals) of a number of my own programs and folders. I
>know these can be saved elsewhere but I haven't done that; in fact, I
>don't know how - somebody want to tell me? Most of these shadow icons
>are either on my WarpCenter toolbar or in my Startup folder. I know I
>can drag & drop an icon onto another to change it and I know you can
>have a "collection" of icons but I don't know how to create such an icon
>collection. I'm reasonably familiar with the Icon Editor; do I just
>create a new folder and then save my custom icons to that folder?
>
Forget folder; think subdirectory.
Go to your utility drive and CD ICONS.

Go to object.
RMC\Properties\Icon\Edit\File\SaveAs
Give it a name and point it at the icons subdirectory.

Rule #1: Never leave work unsaved that you are not anxious to recreate.

>Somewhere on Hobbes is a program (can't remember its name) that extracts
>an INI file's info and puts it in a text file (in hex format when
>necessary) and can also rewrite the info back to the INI file. Some
>smart guy could write a program (or a long FIND /V filter) that would
>throw away the system info leaving behind all the user-set and
>program-set values. Then they could be put into any new INI file.
>
That could be useful. However, it seems to apply more to backup and
restore than update. For backup and restore I have finally found a
system that really works; the copy function in Partition Magic 3.05. I
save a copy of the boot partition to a removable HDD. To restore, run
PM from DOS, delete OS/2 boot partition, copy partition from removable
HDD. It absolutely puts you back where you were.

What you are asking for is something that will somehow make a new system
look like an old system, when it is no longer the same system. How
often do you zero-base-budget the philosophy of how you run a given machine?

Ray

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