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From: kap1@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (Dietrich Kappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Control Panel Woes
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Date: 21 Sep 90 20:55:16 GMT
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Reply-To: kap1@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (Dietrich Kappe)
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A strange thing has happened to my mac (MacPlus, Finder 6.1, System 6.0.2).
After my Disinfectant INIT warned me about a WDEF A on my hard drive, and
after I removed that infection with Disinfectant 2.1 (on a locked system
floppy), the Icon list in my control panel (on the formerly infected
hard disk) is blank.  All the installed cdevs are still accessible by clicking
on the apropriate spot in the icon list,with the exception of the keyboard
cdev, which will draw part of its control panel, flash a dialog box with
a half drawn OK button, and then black out its control panel.  I've 
reinstalled the system, removed all INITS, removed all excess fonts and
DA's,-- in short, I've tried isolating the one variable that nukes my
control panel's icon list.  My conclusion:  its the hard disk. 

That conclusion is clearly absurd, but it is the only constant factor.
All reinstalls were done from locked floppys.

Am I missing something?  I sure hope so, and I hope someone out
there will tell me exactly what.

--Dietrich--

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