On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Michael Oates wrote:
> I have been running Prime95 on this machine for about 4 weeks. It is on a
> LAN with other machines also running Prime95.
>
> I have a shortcut to run the program in the Startup folder.
For Windows 95 and prime95, this is the wrong approach, since as the
included story shows, this makes you vulnerable to the mangling of
shortcuts that Windows loves and we hate.
Instead, remove the shortcut from the startup folder, start
prime95 manually, choose "Options" and make sure "Windows 98/95 Service"
is checked, then it will start automagically, this is especially
important in networked setups, as the service runs even when noone's
logged in.
> Today I realised that not only was the server not being updated, but the
> save files had not been altered for over a week. This was very odd as the
> program was re-starting correctly where it left off. So I thought, it must
> be storing the save file somewhere else. Then I also noticed that some of
> the setting details were wrong, not just wrong, but were for a different
> machine. I ran the program from the directory with File Explorer and it used
> a different exponent and was at a different stage ! Eh !!!!!!!
>
> I checked the shortcut that was in the Startup folder... well would you
> believe it... it was pointing to another machine.
>
> Some how Windows95 had changed the path to the shortcut all on it's own, and
> had been running another exponent on another machine over the network. And
> for some odd reason the details stored in local.ini were taken from the
> local machine and the details from prime.ini were from the remote.
>
> Now I know what you are probably thinking, it was not Windows95 that changed
> the path, and that I made a mistake when I set it up... WRONG, very wrong. I
> have seen this before... if you have a shortcut to a file, and remove the
> file, and replace it with another one Windows95 inserts another path in any
> shortcut to that program, this has cause no end of problems in the past.
>
> This probably happend when I upgraded Prime95 with a newer verion, I moved
> the directory else where by mistake, instead of copying it to make a backup.
> I of course just copied it back again straight away, then copied the new
> updated program to it... from... wait for it... the machine that the new
> shortcut was pointing to. So somehow windows changed the shortcut path to
> the directory on the remote machine, great eh !
>
> All is now working ok, but I have lost over a weeks LL testing because of
> it. No harm seems to have been done to the remote machine.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike,
>
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