I tried to install a couple of win3 apps here for my grandkids...

The first one complained about not having a sound driver loaded and refused to 
run.  So I stuck the cdrom for this ESS1869 card in there,  ran something or
other,  and it apparently has the driver in there fine,  and the program ran
okay.

Next attempt at running a package install complained that it couldn't find the 
sound card at all,  and suggested I run "setup" rather than "install" so I
could configure things manually.  The only choices in their menu were for some 
SB cards I didn't have,  and it didn't work at all in that it showed me no
highligh on the "menu" that let you pick an i/o address,  so I have no idea
what it was assuming.

The best part,  though,  comes after that -- I gave up on that app,  and when
I exited it found that my desktop was getting trashed.  After closing a window 
(say,  minimizing the one that was firing up the network stuff) I didn't get
the normal screen background like usual,  but black instead.  And all of my
icons weren't displaying properly.  A reboot did NOT fix this!

Finally got back to where I was before,  sort of,  by rebooting,  hitting
alt-F1,  and picking one of the backup settings,  the latest of three that
were in there.  Unfortunately I'd turned off desktop archiving back in May...

There appears to have been some changes made to config.sys and I'm going to
sort this out later when I get the chance.  In the meantime,  does anybody
have any thoughts on what happened here?  I thought this system was more
robust than this.

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