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- From: ebb7683@venus.tamu.edu (BLACKMAN, EDWARD B)
- Subject: Re: Windows don't remember positions
- Message-ID: <15NOV199211175563@venus.tamu.edu>
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- References: <16885@umd5.umd.edu> <1992Nov9.171702.5759@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov9.193724.8543@wam.umd.edu> <1992Nov10.040059.24608@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:17:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.040059.24608@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes...
- >In article <1992Nov9.193724.8543@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
- >>Again, the "better programmers" you are referring to SHOULD have been the
- >>ones at IBM. Why didn't they add a "prune INI files" option so that we
- >>wouldn't get stuck with an umpteen meg INI file? You bring up the WIN.INI
- >>file...well, the biggest WIN.INI file I have ever run across was about 50
- >>or 60k long. The OS/2 ini files are 4 times this to begin with.
- >
- >Actually, they did provide several methods to prune the INI files. In
- >the Redbooks, for example, they suggest making back ups of these INI
- >files, so that you can revert to the old one should you do something
- >you don't like. They have issued rudimentary INI file editors as part
- >of the Employee Written Software program (look on
- >software.watson.ibm.com), and there are various third party efforts
- >(e.g. ShowINI, INIMaint, etc).
-
- What about the people who don't know about/have access to outside sources
- like bulletin boards and FTP sites?
-
- > The ALT-F1 trick on boot up restores
- >the INI files and desktop from the install defaults. And the MAKEINI
- >program, documented in the printed material accompanying OS/2, does
- >something similar.
-
- I'm sorry, Tim, but to suggest using Alt-F1 or MAKEINI to prune bloated INI
- files is like saying "You want to trim your hair, eh? Well, you've got a
- perfectly good weed trimmer. Why don't you try that?" It does the job, but
- the damage it does is greater than the good.
-
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