Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!

["Adel Darwish" adel.darwish@xxxxxxxx]

you don't need to delete any line. you can disable the command by inserting
;*; before ( i.e. on the left of) BC
Adel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Holmgren" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!


> ** Reply to message from PollyK3@xxxxxxxx on Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:28:57 EDT
>
>
> > since I operated on my startup.int yesterday to gain increased cursor
size,
> > XP has been reporting a "serious error message" (I can give you the
names of
> > the files implicated if you need them), and when I try to fire up Xy
from the
> > icon on my desktop, I also end up launching four or five other programs
(some
> > Windows, some DOS).
>
> > Does this ring any bells?
>
> In other words, there may have been some collateral damage when you
performed
> your procedure? Operation successful, but patient died?
>
> > Robert, are you feeling any better?
>
> I was mending until I got your message. Now, like Harry, I've lapsed back
into
> the fog of unknowing. Look, if you're suggesting that there might
actually be
> some connection between the default IT command, and the total collapse of
your
> desktop, incredibly farfetched though that seems, the easy way to find out
is
> to undo whatever it was you did to STARTUP.INT yesterday (pencil a note of
the
> IT default values you're using, then remove that "default it=..." line
from
> STARTUP.INT), and see if the bad side-effects disappear. Also, you might
send
> me your STARTUP.INT (attach it to a private msg), so I can take a look,
see if
> there's some egregious problem.
>
> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
> -----------------------------
>