THANK You, Bernie for this;. .COR, I now believe, was a backup copy made
and named by my brother.. sorry for any confusion. I am well on my way to
restoring all the program groups that were there before :) Thank you again
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Bernie wrote:
> > before I start edit, I did a DIR prog man.* and found a
> >file marked PROG MAN.COR dated a few years ago, it looked good, so I used
> >it as my new PROG MAN.INI... this was great, because it restored some of
> >the missing icons appropriate to the date of file... this prog man.cor was
> >so old... my question is this: why do I still have it? why do I not have a
> >more recent "backup"? does windows make backups of prog man.ini upon
> >re-installations and upgrades? and if so, where are they? and what are
> >they labeled? if I use this so-called "backup" marked .COR as my new .INI
> >file ie edit in all the missing icons/program groups... is this okay?/will
> >it cause me problems? ie does .COR stand for unusable/corrupt?
>
> I guess you mean you found a file called progman.cor (no space in between).
> Anyway, there are no .cor files in my windows subdirectory (or any
> directories in it) and I have never heard of it.
> I guess some program made this file, however I don't understand the point
> sine you can create all the icons by yourself (will increase Windows load
> time since you don't add the unnecisary help files and documentation or
> whatever there can be.)
> The process to do this has been explained earlier on this list to you.
>
> A reinstallation of windows is like this:
>
> deltree/y windows
> cd backup
> rar x winbackup.rar winbackup.rar
> cd winbackup
> install
>
> So no there aren't anything left at all from the previous installation. You
> could however install in a new directory and thereby make it easier to
> install other programs sine you just have to copy there .DLL files from the
> old windows\system directory to the new one.
> And don't forget to change the path statment in AutoExec.Bat
>
> If the .Cor file is working as a .Ini file you shouldn't have any problems.
> But my advice to you is to add/remove so you get your desktop as you want it.
> //Bernie
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