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From: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Broken Window
Summary: program manager groups mysteriously die
Keywords: program manager groups group files
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.171222.11281@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 90 17:12:22 GMT
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In article <38980@cci632.UUCP> deb@cci632.UUCP (Deborah Brown) writes:
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>I exited windows and started up again and was told that the main program group 
>was damaged or invalid and had to be recreated.  No problem.  I opened the 
>manual to find out what to do, but the manual was no help at all.  I wound up 
>reinstalling Windows.

I have had similar problems. I find that program manager groups "die" for
no obvious reason. A couple of times I think that I was trying to do "too
much", for example, running more than one copy of windows, at other
times I was not doing anything unusual.

I suggest that MS includes an option that allows us to save the program
manager groups without having to exit windows (similar to the save
changes dialog box that comes up when we quit windows.)

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Anant Kartik Mithal					akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
University of Oregon