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Help needed with desktop display

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From: silvert
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1987 14:20
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I've run into a curious problem with the desktop.  I frequently use a
Drive C ramdisk generated by a ramdisk program within the AUTO folder,
and the desktop.inf file is set up to show C:\*.* on bootup.  Fine.
I then install some applications.  Still fine.  Then I edit the
desktop.inf file, installing the path C:\ before certain lines (e.g.,
	... C:\ARCX.TTP@*.ARC@
or something like that).  When I reboot (hot or cold) the system comes
up as it should, with a window open for drive C -- BUT -- every time a
program closes the window, it stays closed.  Normally when you run
a program from the desktop, after the program runs the desktop reappears
as it was before, but this doesn't happen anymore -- the icons are still
there, but all windows are closed.  Any ideas?

By the way, I've normally used NEWWORD v. 3 to edit the file.  If anyone
can send me a copy of v. 4, which I hear is out now, it would be greatly
appreciated.

-- 
Bill Silvert
Marine Ecology Laboratory, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
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Subject: Help needed with desktop display
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Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 09:20:44 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  1 09:20:44 1987
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Keywords: Windows, install applications