RJ> My desktop all but vanished yesterday, requiring a complete 
 RJ> reload of all OS/2 software on the machine. After this 
 RJ> occurred I read through the book on how to save it 
 RJ> automatically on shutdown, but setting archiving ON and 
 RJ> pressing Alt-F1 at bootup there is still only a copy of the 
 RJ> original configuration. What gives here, and is there a 
 RJ> better way.

Rob, I think you have a corrupted file. This has happened to me before and
the problem was the file called archives.$$$ in \os2\archives. I wrecked
mine by running running one of these(can't remember which) MAKEINI.EXE,
ARCINST.EXE, ARCRECOV.EXE. Fixed it by getting the file from a friends
machine who had OS/2 on the same drive. Same symptoms as you're having.
Only the original would show up in the recovery menu.

Doug.

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