Will Honea wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 WH> Roy J. Tellason wrote to Will Honea on 04-28-1998
RT> Another example of that is the shutdown process.  Before,  I'd end
RT> up with  nothing but a blank blue screen more often than not,  and I
RT>  ended up figuring that once all apparent (disk and other)  activity
RT> had stopped that it was okay to turn it off.  Now, 
RT>  I get that message that it's okay to turn it off within a 
RT> reasonable period of time.  What change did this?  
 WH> Who knows?  I would advise you to get CHECKINI and/or INIMAINT 
 WH> and purge your INI files regularly, especially while you are 
 WH> 'playing around' with the system.  You can get some really 
 WH> screwy results if they get too garbaged up with outdated info.
I've got CHECKINI here,  I'll stick it on a floppy and get it over to that 
machine,  then...
 WH> BTW, one quick way to hang the WPS is to open an icon view of a 
 WH> folder with lots of files, then do a bunch of mucking around 
 WH> while it's trying to paint the icons.  Frequently, the WPS 
 WH> takes the attitude "I'm busy! come back tomorrow!".
Heh.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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