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Re: Locking the setup for Windows 3.0

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From: Werner Icking
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 09:08
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aragorn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steve J White) writes:

>In article <1991Apr23.083518.1@max.u.washington.edu> 8416629@max.u.washington.edu writes:
>>Uppss... I guess I didn't make myself clear. When I said disabling the
>>"Save Changes" box I mean completely disabling that option (in effect 
>>turning it into gray). [...]

I know a solution which does  NOT  work. Make the PROGMAN.INI- and all 
*.GRP-files read-only. Windows honors these seetings, but it crashes if
you try e.g. to change the display characteristics from 640x480 to 800x600.

Hope this helps (avoiding unneccesary experiments).

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From: icking@gmdzi.gmd.de (Werner Icking)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Locking the setup for Windows 3.0
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Date: 24 Apr 91 09:08:49 GMT
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