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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:42:39 PST8
From:	"Mark Abramowitz" <marka@relaypoint.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Corrupt desktop

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In , on 11/17/03
at 12:31 AM, "Steven Levine" said:

>Are you saying you booted to D: and edited the WPS INIs on C:?

Yes.

>Generally,
>that's not a good idea. It's too easy to corrupt the good INIs on D:.

Do you by accidentally editing the wrong ini?

>Are you saying that when booted to the volume with the bad INIs, the WPS
>did come up, but just very well?

Yes:

>From a boot, all I get is a small popup box that says Workpplace Shell on
it, and "Installed:", with an "OK" and a "Cancel" button. Pressing either
gives me a command prompt, as well as a new popup, exactly like the first.

WPS comes up blue, but otherwise empty except for the popup box.

>If so, you might want to try a non-destructive makeini. That might be
>sufficient to uncorrupt the handle table. It's unknown how much you
>will lose as a result.

I'll report back- thanks. I haven't done one of those since probably 2.1.
Forgot all about it.

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