On 1999-03-26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Dear all,
>I am still trying to restore this old copy of Win3.1,
>after I did a Win3.1 installation, I was only able to get 4 icons
>on the desktop, so, as advised, I edited ProgMan.ini to include all
>of my ..GRP files
>now, I have all my icons appearing on my desktop, yet when I click
>into a group to try to open an application other than Excel like
>msword I get a Can't find file win error message (: I Have tried
>using AltEnter the application still will not open
>I have been advised to edit win.ini yet this file seems so large
>and full of numerous entries for Excel and seemingly containing
>different paths for Word than those specified in AltEnter { missing
>a directory in the path } I was wondering if the way I copied this
>copy of Windows is the reason for this... I used DOS move to
>put/change \WINDOWS to \WINCOPY successfully yet when I wanted to
>change it all back I guess not as carefully used DOS COPY *.* to
>put all files in \WINCOPY back to \WINDOWS
>this is when I initially started having difficulty opening Windows
Hello,
Dos copy works prety good, but it wont copy subdirectorys. This is
probably why directorys are missing.
Using dos XCOPY.exe whith /s /v will copy a directory whith all its sub
directorys and there subdirectorys. I don't think xcopy.exe will copy
hidden files, and I am not sure if there hidden files in c:\windows(3.X)
directory or not. You can do a attrib c:\windows\*.* > c:\attrib.txt this
will write a text file of the file attributes in a text file called
attrib.txt.
If there are files whith hidden or system attributes you can do a
mas slotter of them by doing attrib -s -h -r c:\windir\*.* and press enter.
This will remove the system hidden and read only attributes Changing them
to "a" or an archive atribute. Also attrib will have to be used in any
subdirectorys of c:\windows to change attributes. Like this, attrib
c:\windows\system\*.*, and c:\windows\fonts\*.* and so on. You may not need
to change attributes, but if you do need to do this in the futer remember to
use attrib whith the > c:\"textfilename".txt to make a record of attributes
to have as a reference.
here is a Xcopy.exe Example:
xcopy c:\windows\*.* c:\wincopy\*.* /s /v
will put every thing from c:\windows
in to c:\wincopy .
After that you can deltree c:\windows, I only say this becaus you had
mentioned using move.exe to move the windows directory to the
wincopy directory.
I suppose move.exe is a prety neat program, I always prefured to do the
xcopy and deltree manually.
Pete
>the way I remembered it
>so, I was ( with help ) able to get for a short time the entire
>desktop only in the default font
>I did a 6 disk Win3 re-installation on top of this and hence this
>is where I was at with the 4 icons before I edited progman.ini
>again, to all, sorry
>for belaboring these problems, it is just that I have good software
>and hard to recreate data on the desktop as I remember it
>thanks to all who have been so patient with me
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