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From: wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More fuel to the WDEF virus fire
Message-ID: <1851@tellab5.TELLABS.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 89 18:41:23 GMT
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In article <5737@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gwk@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tom Arnold) writes:
>I bounced this idea off of John, now I'm curious about what others think.
>Instead of trying to obtain a copy of Eradicator!, wouldn't it be simpler
>to just rebuild the DeskTop at boot (ie: hold down the option & command keys
>during startup)??  Maybe this is too simplistic...  John pointed out that
>there are some drawbacks, like losing GetInfo information for example....

I have seen this commonly mentioned on the net that when rebuilding the desktop
you loose your getinfo information. However, in the last year or so, I don't
remember anybody mentioning that there is a way around this problem. If you
take a trusty copy of ResEdit and open your desktop file, you will find that
there is a single resource in there that contains all of the GetInfo texts
(please forgive me, I have the name of the resource at home and not with me but
it is not too hard to find which one it is just by poking around).

Anyway, do a copy and paste the resource into another file just to hold it for
awhile. Then rebuild your desktop and afterward go back and get your resource
and cut and paste it back into the desktop.

I have done this several times and it seems to work ok. I think that one of the
side effects is that if the resource is big, it stays big but the desktop
operations in general still speed up.

I got the info on how to do this from my LaCie Silverling manual. If anyone
knows whether or not there are any significant side effects in this proceedure,
I would be interested in hearing about it. Especially with the potential of a
new "nasty" resource floating around!





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