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In <jmo.18.000A713D@mrih.no> jmo@mrih.no (Jan Gunnar Moe) writes:

>I place my reply in public, since it may be of public interest.
>It also should be corrected in public if not correct.

>In article <2vg0vc$biq@access3.digex.net> riker@access3.digex.net writes:

>>Now, I went into WIN.INI, found all references to the common apps, and
>>changed the path to a different drive.  Then, of course, I also copied
>>all the program files for the common apps to the new drive and path.

>>The long and short is, Word For Windows could not find the common
>>applications. 

>I once had a related problem, where W4W 6.0 seemed unable to read my 
>modifications of WIN.INI. 

>The reason?

>W4W 6.0 (or it may be Windows 3.1 itself, I'm not sure) does not read 
>WIN.INI. Instead it reads another file, named REG.DAT, which is not ASCII. 
>And when you modify WIN.INI, REG.DAT is not updated! 
>What human person could guess this? 

>So what do you do to get REG.DAT updated? 

>You just delete delete the file (REG.DAT). Then, the next time you start 
>Windows, REG.DAT will be regenerated, using your modified WIN.INI.

>After this treatment, the system should work. At least it did for me (but my 
>problem, as I said, was related to this one, not identical)

>Implementing automatic updating of REG.DAT after modifying WIN.INI should be 
>very easy, checking, for example, the date of saving WIN.INI.


>Best Wishes!

>Jan Gunnar

I am not sure that I would delete the reg.dat file. You may lose a lot of the 
OLE information in the process. Instead use the filemanager or 
programmanager's Run command and type in 'regedit /V' (without the quotes).
You can now change the paths in the reg.dat file. I have done this on many an 
occassion. Make a backup copy of your current reg.dat file (in your windows 
directory) before you modify it.



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