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Re: HELP - can't run windoze apps anymore

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From: Paul Andrews
Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 00:00
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In article <3oarqb$mue@news.iastate.edu>,
   barisax@iastate.edu (Jason W Blair) wrote:
>This is a cry for help to anyone who has seen this problem 
before. 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. The apps 
will not
>run from the launchpad, or from their original icons. They will 
not run
>from an os2 command line or a dos command line.

Snip, snip

>
>Thanks in advance.  Jason - barisax@iastate.edu
>			    TeamOS2
>
>

I had very similar symptoms after accidently overwriting my OS/2 
autoexec.bat file with a DOS autoexec.bat file.  I reinstalled 
the OS/2 DOS support which reinstalled the default OS/2 
autoexec.bat file which fixed the problem.

Hope this helps,

Paul

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From: Paul_Andrews.Ger_Med@muwaye.unimelb.edu.au (Paul Andrews)
Subject: Re: HELP - can't run windoze apps anymore
Date: 1995/05/08
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