Desktop keeps crashing?!

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From: Chuck Coronella
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 15:30

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In the last week or so, I've had trouble with my desktop crashing. 
Symptoms are that it just stops responding to all commands.  After a few
moments of pounding the keyboard, I get the old "Desktop is not 
responding, press enter to end process..." system message.  This is 
highly irritating.  If I do end the desktop, all my (previously) running
apps work fine, and can be accessed via ctrl-esc, but I cannot open 
other apps.  I can't shutdown, even c-a-d doesn't work.

After ending the desktop, is it possible to start a new desktop?

After ending the desktop, how do I shut down?  Hard boot is the only way
I've found.

Why is my desktop crashing????

I'm running OS2 2.11 on Ambra Pentium PCI, IDE drive formatted HPFS. 
The only major change I've made recently is upgrading MS Office.  I've 
heard plenty of conspiracy theories about MS, but my config.sys was not 
altered, and the setup went smoothly.  I don't think MS is to blame this
time.

Help!

Chuck Coronella
Chemical & Metallurgical Engr.
University of Nevada, Reno
coronell@cs.unr.edu

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