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I recently picked up a copy of Brian Livingston's book "Windows 3.1 Secrets"
and yesterday tried to load some of the goodies from the enclosed disks.
Most of them loaded cleanly, but the process wasn't all sweetness and light.

Problem #1: the installer has problems.  Parts of the scroll boxes are cut
off by the slider bar; this may be partly because I'm using an EGA (at least
until the company delivers the new machine I've ordered).  In perhaps a 
half dozen invocations the "ADD ALL" button was available only once (and
not on the first try); on all other attempts it was dimmed.

Problem #2: the installer creates a control file for its own use (WWW-PROD.INI)
which serves no possible function I can see.

Problem #3: Attempting to load the member W_BAT the installer calls for 
disk #2, but fails to accept that disk when it is inserted in the drive.
Your only option is to cancel the installation process.

Problem #4 (and easily the worst): Attempting to load any of four specific
applications from the disk forces a reboot.  While trying to load any of
them (HUNTER, WINEDIT, WINUNARC, XCLOCK) you get the error dialog box:

   ERROR DURING CODE EXPANSION

with an "OK" button, but when you click on the button the error message
box just gets redisplayed.  Since the main window has no control menu
(another design error)  there's nothing you can do to get out; even
the much-advertised CTRL-ALT-DEL trap in Windows 3.1 doesn't help.  The
only solution is to reboot the system.

Joe Morris / MITRE