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Re: Desktop: now you see it. Now you don't. Why???

#1185
From: Meir I Green
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:18
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In article <1992Aug28.035047.12917@unixg.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
>
>Something odd and irritating happened to my OS/2 desktop.
>
>When I restart my computer, it boots etc. I get a startup.cmd window.
>The desktop flashes grey as usual, then returns to the desktop color.
>
>So far so good.
>
>Now the system does one of two things:
>1. finishes the startup, and puts all my icons and stuff on screen
>2. sits there and does nothing. No icons etc. Moving the startup.cmd
>window or ctrl-esc hangs PM until a "Desktop not responding" window comes up,
>and I can kill it.
>
>So where does my desktop go? Bad day? Doesn't feel like coming out to play?
>
>Fortunately, I have the startup.cmd window up, and I'm getting used to  typeing
>"kill 5" to kill the desktop, and recycle it. It then comes out to play :^)
>
>(If I didn't have a startup.cmd window, and kill, I'd be more than irritated!
>at least now I can recover)
>
>-I always shutdown properly, even "refresh" before shutting down. No help
>-I rebooted from the install disks etc. and tried chkdsk /f:3 and
>that didn't find any weirdness
>
>Any helpful suggestions?

Did you have these problems before installing the new kernel, or are you
on the old kernel, still?

Did you install the black icon fix?

I already had the black icon fix, but I just installed the new kernel, and I
have just started having these WPS lockups!  Please tell me I did something
else wrong :-)

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Subject: Re: Desktop: now you see it. Now you don't. Why???
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