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Article #34681Re: Removing startup icons?
From: leonardr
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 18:31
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 18:31
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mouser@Portia.Stanford.EDU(Michael Wang) in comp.sys.mac >> If you really want to remove the icons from startup, you could probably >> whack them with ResEdit, but why? They let you know whats loading. And >> can possibly tell you where something goes wrong if you have boot problems. >> [ stuff deleted ] > >Startup icons interfer with startup screen desktop patterns. They become >part of the startup screen desktop pattern - very annoying. > A simple way to solve this problem is to rename your 'desktop pattern INIT' so that it is the FIRST INIT to load, and then your desktop pattern will be safe from all the other things that may be drawn on top. The best way to rename it to make sure ti loads first is to add spaces before the name such as ' backdrop'. +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ + + Any thing I say may be taken as + + Leonard Rosenthol + fact, then again you might decide+ + President, LazerWare, inc. + that it really isn't, so you + + + never know, do you?? + + leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu + + + GEnie: MACgician + MacNET: MACgician + + Delphi: MACgician + + + + + +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!ukma!rutgers!deimos!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Removing startup icons? Message-ID: <46100232@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 21 Nov 88 18:31:00 GMT References: <593@husc6.harvard.edu> Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:husc6.harvard.edu:593:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:46100232:000:1489 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr Nov 21 12:31:00 1988