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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:06:11 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Corrupt desktop

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In <200311170650250.SM01232@Main>, on 11/17/03
at 06:42 AM, "Mark Abramowitz" said:

>>Generally,
>>that's not a good idea. It's too easy to corrupt the good INIs on D:.

>Do you by accidentally editing the wrong ini?

No. The PM APIs that manage the INIs keep the data for all open INI files
in the same shared memory area. If you open a corrupted INI, it's
possible the corrupt one of the other open INIs. One thing that happens
here every now and then when the INIs APIs run out of available memory is
the some of the Relish or DOIP INI settings leak into OS2.INI.

>>Are you saying that when booted to the volume with the bad INIs, the WPS
>>did come up, but just very well?

>Yes:

OK. That was not entirely clear the way you originally phrase it.

>WPS comes up blue, but otherwise empty except for the popup box.

That's a classic dead desktop. How you you get to the command line to run
checkini?

Steven

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