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Ijonas Kisselbach (ijonas@josh1.demon.co.uk) spake:
> Hi,

> My current Windows 3.11 system seems to 
> have corrupted somehow !?! 
> Everytime I boot up Windows I get the 
> following message:

> 	Program-group file 
> 'C:\WINDOWS\MAIN.GRP' is invalid or
> 	damaged. Recreate the group.

> The program-group seems to vary randomly, 
> i.e. it's not always the
> MAIN.GRP. I can't seem to find anything 
> wrong with my progman.ini file:

> [Settings]
> Window=7 3 708 500 1
> display.drv=SVGA256.DRV
> Order= 2 5 3 4 8 6 11 10 7 9
> AutoArrange=1
> MinOnRun=1

> [Groups]
> Group1=C:\WINDOWS\MAIN.GRP
> Group2=C:\WINDOWS\SB16.GRP
> Group3=C:\WINDOWS\NETWORK.GRP
> Group4=C:\WINDOWS\GAMES.GRP
> Group5=C:\WINDOWS\STARTUP.GRP
> Group6=C:\WINDOWS\APPLICAT.GRP
> Group7=C:\WINDOWS\AUTOCAD.GRP
> Group8=C:\WINDOWS\DELRINAW.GRP
> Group9=C:\WINDOWS\DELPHI.GRP
> Group10=C:\WINDOWS\WASOCK.GRP
> Group11=C:\WINDOWS\SUPERVOI.GRP

> I also ran a few checks on my hard disk 
> with no result. Can anybody 
> think of a reason why these errors keep 
> showing up ??


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> Tired but Wired,
> Ijonas Kisselbach.

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One of my users had this problem a few months ago. First I tried things
like SCANDISK and checking CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and .INI files for
possible causes. This and other strange things continued to plague her
(GPF's, lock-ups, dropping to DOS suddenly, wildly spaced group icons
in PROGRAM MANAGER, not enough memory messages, and more). I tried
recreating the swap file, reinstalling Windoze, refreshing the DOS files,
everything I could think of. Then I ran some diagnostics on the memory,
but got no errors. Finally, in desperation, I switched all 8 of her SIMMs
with another machine I was trying to fix for some other problem. Bingo!
*All* of her problems disappeared! This was great, except now I had
8 SIMMs on my hands, at least one of which was bad. Eventually, after
almost a week more of rigorous testing, I found the bad one. Bet you
didn't know Windoze was a really good memory tester, did you? :-)

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