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HELP - can't run windoze apps anymore

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From: Jason W Blair
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


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Jason W Blair			ADP Center systems team
barisax@iastate.edu
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From: barisax@iastate.edu (Jason W Blair)
Subject: HELP - can't run windoze apps anymore
Date: 1995/05/04
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organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA)
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