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Article #4985Re: HELP - can't run windoze apps anymore
From: Markus Weber (Infotec)
Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 00:00
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I had exactly the problem (running fullpack) this morning. Solution: Full restore of c:\os2\mdos from tape (this also restores the winos2 directory). Cheers -Markus In article <3oe16u$nt8@beyond.escape.com>, j_weedon@escape.com (Jay Weedon) writes: >>For no apparent reason, one of my clients has lost the ability to run any of >>his windows applications. Whenever he tries to launch a windows based >>application, or a win-os2 window or full screen session, the hard drive >>is accessed for about a half second, and then nothing. > >Why not try this simple diagnostic: Open a full-screen DOS session, and type at >the command prompt "winos2". You'll probably see an error message of some >kind that may give you a clue about what's going on. Video drivers are often >the culprits here, but corrupted files, changed paths etc. are also possibilities. > >Jay Weedon. -- Markus Weber, Infotec SA, Zurich email: markus@infotec.ch, markus@dial.eunet.ch
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,582147eb2e1881e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 112d6c,582147eb2e1881e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid112d6c,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,582147eb2e1881e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public X-Google-Thread: 10c4f5,582147eb2e1881e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c4f5,public From: hubby@swissbank.com (Markus Weber (Infotec)) Subject: Re: HELP - can't run windoze apps anymore Date: 1995/05/09 Message-ID: <3onkdo$5uq@op1d56cmp.il.us.swissbank.com> X-Deja-AN: 102299855 references: <3oe16u$nt8@beyond.escape.com> organization: The unconfigured xvnews people reply-to: hubby@swissbank.com newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.bugs,comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l