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Chuck Coronella (coronell@cs.unr.edu) wrote:
: 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????

Hello, greets from singapore,

well, i would suggest using inimaint.exe to check your .ini files. 
Inimaint is shareware, and the latest version is inim30k.zip. this 
program will check your ini files for inconsistencies which I suspect 
could be the problem. 

If this does not help, the next thing I would do if I were you, would be 
to press ALT-F1 during reboot, this will recreate your entire desktop and 
probably recreate your ini files too. Note, you have to press ALT-F1 when 
the bios beeps, just before the OS2 logo, keep pressing it till you get a 
message saying sumthing like "config.sys etc is backed up under config.001".
The bad thing about this is that you would have lost all your previous 
settings for the desktop, and config.sys. and probably need to make your 
individual customisations again. *warning* a separate desktop called 
desktop1 will be created in your HDD, I strongly suggest that you do not 
delete your previous desktop, ie. C:\DESKTOP, even if it is empty. You 
mite experience problem with starting the new desktop.

You should also check the *EXCELLENT* shareware/demoware program called 
WPSBK205.ZIP, WPS backup will backup your entire workplace shell 
(including folders, icons, placement of objects, dosbox settings, etc 
etc) and create a REXX command file. In the event of a crashed WPS, all 
you need is to boot up OS/2 from diskette and run the program, it will 
delete the existing desktop and recreate the stored one. *a must have*.

hope this helps,

felix eng
Singapore OS/2 User Group