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pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>I don't know what I did but every time I enter WIN, PM comes up
>minimized and I would like it to come up maximized.  I've looked through
>WINI.INI and SYSTEM.INI and come up with zilch.  Can anyone suggest a
>way to reverse this?
>
>Thanks,
>Pete

It is interesting that Microsoft failed to document this phenomenon in
the manual, and also left the explanation out of the WININI.TXT
supplement.  I happened on this when I tried installing "SCREENPEACE"
(SP).

I followed the directions in the installation package for SP, adding the
line
     run=SAVER.EXE

to the WIN.INI file.  The next time I started WIN3, PM was minimized.
So, I deleted the above line from WIN.INI and tried

     load=SAVER.EXE

in its stead.  Poof!  PM was no longer minimized on starting WIN3.  So,
it seems that these two WIN.INI commands have unique properties.  "run="
is designed to hand over control to an application (thus putting PM in
the background) while "load=" will put the application in the
background.

DISCLAIMER:  The above observations are based on an empirical experiment
with a sample size of one.  Since statistical significance is lacking,
your mileage may vary.
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