Re: Disappearing & Reappearing program groups.

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From: Dan Pearson
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 00:00

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In <2F$zehA3cg0wEwfQ@davita.demon.co.uk>, David Reid <David@davita.demon.co.uk> writes:
>In article <396479577wnr@josh1.demon.co.uk>, Ijonas Kisselbach
><ijonas@josh1.demon.co.uk> writes
>>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:
><snip program.ini settings>
>
>I have a similar problem, except it is usually the same group that 
>disappears and it comes back again of it's own accord.
>--
>David Reid
>Me transmitte sersum, Caledoni!



I have seen this 'corrupted group' problem on a client's machine.  It seemed to 
have something to do with the fact that we had partitioned their drive, and the
partition that windows was on was very low on disk space.  Once I freed up 
some room it all seemed ok?

..dkp...

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From: dkpears@ibm.net    (Dan Pearson)
Subject: Re: Disappearing & Reappearing program groups.
Date: 1995/12/17
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