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From: jmorriso@fs0.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Broken Window
Keywords: what did I do?
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Date: 11 Aug 90 18:48:41 GMT
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Speaking of programs clobbering your Program manager .grp files, and other
Windows files, I tried a program of of Cica, I think it was click, or something
like that. It allowed you to run programs by pressing a button on a panel
it left on screen. Any way it tried to change the win.ini file and it screwed up!

Obviuosly MY fault for trusting shareware/ public domain! I sure won't trust HIS
stuff for a while. Even the push-buttons looked shabby, he couldn't have tested
it very thoroughly. This program DESTROYED my win.ini file! I was bloody luck to have
Norton (Bless you, Peter!) to pull the file back from the lost realm. Anyone else
unfortunate enough to try this shoddy program, who did not have Norton around
would be right up the creek! With a trashed win.ini file you can't do anything!
You would need to reinstall just about everything.

This brush with fate was too close for me, I have backed up my .ini and .grp
files. For some reason, when I first installed Windows, the Program  manager was
a bit flaky, and if it crashed, you could destroy your .grp files, which is very
unpleasant. I think it is pretty stupid of Microsoft to make the .grp files
binaries, they should be text files, so we can change things easily!
Just try changing icons manually eith these HUGE libraries out there. Fortunately
there is groupbuild for this. Even Excel or WOrd can start the DDE needed to change
your icons quickly.