Kenn Yuill schreef:

>Kris Steenhaut wrote as follows on 21/08/05 16:53:
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>>Sure you shouldn't ...
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>>>>I would boot to the command line and edit Config.Sys to add
the statement
>>>>   SET DESKTOP=[Your Boot Drive]:\DESKTOP.
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>>... for this trick is meant for an enterely other situation.
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>Oh well I tried, as the described symptoms seemed familiar to an 
>incident when my Desktop wouldn't appear.
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What he was saying was:

>I cannot boot to the desktop.  The startup folder appears then closes 
>and there is a little disk activity then it hangs with the blue screen 
>and only a movable cursor showing.
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Meaning he has probably triggered a corruption  of the  ini files,  
almost certainly due to his attempts  to install audio (a not 
agknowledged  but common feature  of Uniaud).
If that is the case, a backup (any backup) will do the job.

The entry SET DESKTOP=[Your Boot Drive]:\DESKTOP  is meant for THE 
situation where at boot you get the message "the system cannot find the 
desktop in your ini files". And if that is the case,  not even the 
startup folder  will come up (as there is no desktop) and you will be 
prompted to accept a temporary workplace (dekstop).

If that is the case, not even a regular backup will do coz there is a 
mismatch between the desktop ID and EA on disk (data not present in the 
ini files). It's here where the entry

SET DESKTOP=[Your Boot Drive]:\DESKTOP comes to the rescue.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris

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