Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: How to trash win.com
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.171616.15705@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Keywords: stupidity RLE BMP 
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 90 17:16:16 GMT

So I was playing around with a number of different modifications
to the standard Windows 3.0 startup screen.... I added a Mac logo
with the NO circle with a slash over it... looks cute and I am
doing the "no IBM" startup screen for the Mac I am using!!

On my system they use the vgalogo.rle file and I used paintbrush
after converting it from rle to bmp format. You have to select a
different video display then re-select your video display to
get it to remake win.com.

Now one time after a change I started windows and it said 
Program too big to fit in memory. Sure enuf, win.com was
153K which is a tad to large to fit in a 64K segment as a
.COM file should! I went to bed doubtinh the integrity of 
a Windows program that would corrupt itself but realized I
was the knudge that did it. Once I forgot to save the logo
file as RLE. Sure i used the rle name but I left it as a BMP
and WIndows just read the huge file into win.com as it made it.

I had to re-install Windows to fix this problem (anybody know of
a better way?) and I just thought I might pass this little gem
of my stupidity along so the next man might be wiser and more
careful than I!!!