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Article #4992Re: HELP - 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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In <D82D4H.A7M@lexmark.com> gczaja@lexmark.com(Gregory Czaja) writes: >In <3oarqb$mue@news.iastate.edu>, barisax@iastate.edu (Jason W Blair) writes: >>This is a cry for help to anyone who has seen this problem before. For >>no apparent reason, one of my clients has lost the ability to run any of >>his windows applications. Whenever he tries to launch a windows based >>application, or a win-os2 window or full screen session, the hard drive >>is accessed for about a half second, and then nothing. >Jason, >What version of OS/2 is it? Is is "for Windows" (i.e. using the original >Windows code) or is it with Windows built-in (i.e. fullpak)? >Most likely the customer installed something under Windows. >It may be a video driver or unsupported version of Win32s... >You can try: > selective reinstall of Windows support > open a fullscreen DOS session and run WIN /B, watch the messages. >Thanks, <G>reg ---> DeskMan/2 utilities >(WZ00329 on TalkLink, 71052,720 on CIS) Thanks for the info! 8-) I ran win /b and found out that the keyboard driver failed to load when I checked the bootlog.txt file. Also thanks to those who responded via email. My client and I are very very happy now. 8-) BTW, it's nice to know that Warp is smart enough to sense the problem and just kill the offending app. I'd like to see a Micro$oft product do that, ha ha. Jason - 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 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: barisax@iastate.edu (Jason W Blair) Subject: Re: HELP - can't run windoze apps anymore Date: 1995/05/04 Message-ID: <barisax.799618066@isuad1.iastate.edu> X-Deja-AN: 102000057 references: <3oarqb$mue@news.iastate.edu> <D82D4H.A7M@lexmark.com> organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.bugs,comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l