🚀 go-pugleaf

As a fellow Aptiva owner who has done just about everything that you're
not supposed to at least twice, I think I know what happened and you're
not gonna like the solution.  

There is a particular directory that I have a feeling you might have
deleted/corrupted (possibly Welcome?) which has the files that are
required to bring up the Rapid Resume window.  Unfortunately, the only
solution that I am aware of is to do a flash recovery [using the
recovery disks and original software CD].  The good news is I believe
that this does NOT reformat your hard drive--merely writes over the old
files.  Where this becomes a pain is in setting up the old software that
was included with the Aptiva again.  However, it does not erase the
files that YOU personally added such as Office or what have you.  If you
have a zip drive, you might want to back up what you want.  One thing to
watch out for is to make sure that you have enough space on your hard
drive before doing the flash recovery.  If you've deleted some of the
lame software that came with your computer to free up space for new
programs, that software will be reinstalled and you might run into hard
disk space problems--know this because I did this.

Everything should work ok without the Rapid Resume features. 
Eventually, everything got blown apart for me and I had to do a hard
drive reformat, erase the boot sector, and start over but I tend to do
that to myself. 

This was my scenerio and the Help Desk couldn't provide another solution
other than doing a flash recover from the Recovery disks and CD.

Good Luck!

Mark A. McGuire
mark.a.mcguire@ibm.net


Dale wrote:
> 
> The Rapid Resume executables on my IBM Aptiva are corrupted.
> When I click on them I get an empty window so I disabled Rapid Resume (I
> disabled APM BIOS through the bootup setup utility and REM-ed out the
> statements in the autoexec.bat file).
> I tried restoring the original files from the CD's but the files are
> encrypted Pkzip files and cannot be accessed.
> The IBM recovery docs suggested reformatting the hard drive but I don't
> want to do that.
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to restore the original executables?
> Thanks,
> Dale