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Article #4990HELP - can't run windoze apps anymore
From: Jason W Blair
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00
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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. I have tried the following, unsuccessfully, to resolve the problem: * re-migrate the applications to the desktop * check settings on the apps AND the win-os2 sessions * reboot * re-install win-os2 support (and remigrate again) * run chkdsk * boot from a desktop archive I do not know if the client removed anything that should not have been. I checked all of the os2 and windows system files that I could think of and found no problems there. I have not ruled out a hardware problem, as he has had trouble with it in the past. (His keyboard died, and it needed to be replaced) Here is the system: HP Vectra 5/60 (60 MHz Pentium) 16Mb RAM 540Mb Hard Drive SVGA Monitor (Ergo Ultra, uses cirrus logic drivers) If anyone has *any* idea what the problem might be, I would be eternally greatful. If any other information about the system is required, I will post here. I wish I could just set up the system to run OS/2 native apps (an ideal world) but I do not have that option. 8-) Thanks in advance. Jason - barisax@iastate.edu TeamOS2 -- Jason W Blair ADP Center systems team barisax@iastate.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,582147eb2e1881e9,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10c4f5,582147eb2e1881e9,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10c4f5,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,582147eb2e1881e9,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public X-Google-Thread: 112d6c,582147eb2e1881e9,start X-Google-Attributes: gid112d6c,public From: barisax@iastate.edu (Jason W Blair) Subject: HELP - can't run windoze apps anymore Date: 1995/05/04 Message-ID: <3oarqb$mue@news.iastate.edu> X-Deja-AN: 102000011 organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.bugs,comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l