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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: No wallpaper
Keywords: no wallpaper, real mode, standard mode
Message-ID: <975@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 15:15:00 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.045612.2489@csusac.csus.edu> <1991Jan30.004624.8098@portia.Stanford.EDU> <20770@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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(Eric Sheppard) writes:
>
>Thanks for all your suggestions.  The interesting quirk here is that Windows
>_was_ in Standard mode.  In addition, the font of the icon names had changed
>to the larger system font, instead of the small tiny type.  Very weird!
>

I've noticed that this happens with the font in either of two cases:  Windows
runs out of memory (you can force this with Heapwalk), or you don't have
enough FILES set up in CONFIG.SYS.
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