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from: Kris Steenhaut
date: 2006-01-05 23:24:54
subject: Re: boot halts at desktop load

Phil Parker schreef:

>On 01/04/2006 at 10:04 PM, "Phil
Parker" wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Sometime, somewhere, I recall seeing some posts about the Desktop
"losing its
>>identity" in some way that required a temporary
"set" statement in config.sys
>>to locate it (IIRC) until it could have its identity restored. Since the boot
>>process actually gets to the (seemingly) precise point where the Desktop is
>>loaded from the boot drive, then halts as if there isn't one, could this
>>"lost identity" thing have happened to me? If that's
possible, would someone
>>please remind me what that "set" incantation is to enable
the Desktop to find
>>itself?
>>    
>>
>
>Is the incantation "set WP_DESKTOP=D:\Desktop" ?
>
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>
It's:

set DESKTOP=D:\Desktop

But you need this companion cdm file too:

http://www.taartenbakkerij.com/bestanden/deskid.cmd

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris




 
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