Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!ritcsh!ultb!ritvax.isc.rit.edu!JXM5809 From: jxm5809@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Too Many Icons on my Desktop! Message-ID: <1991Apr3.155837.10356@isc.rit.edu> Date: 3 Apr 91 15:58:37 GMT References: <10505@orca.wv.tek.com>,<670617522@globe01.cs.duke.edu> Sender: news@isc.rit.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: jxm5809@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology Lines: 45 Nntp-Posting-Host: vaxf In article <670617522@globe01.cs.duke.edu>, mds@duke.cs.duke.edu (Mark David Shattuck) writes: > > I had an interesting problem this weekend. If I have >more than about 130 icons in opened groups in program manager, >then pm will not redraw itself correctly. I have tried this >with the video drivers supplied with my OPDII and the standard >windows supplied VGA drivers. Does anyone else have this >problem? > > Steps to create problem: > > 1) Create 7 groups in PM. I have 4 groups of 25 icons > and 3 groups of about 10 icons. > > 2) Open all groups. > > 3) Make PM into an icon and then open it. > > Now, you should have the title bar of PM and frame, but >nothing else. (Well it's more like it's invisible with the back- >ground showing through.) If you iconify one of the groups then >problem goes away. > > Here's my system: > > DTK 386-25 4Mb 64K cache > Orchid ProDesigner II > NEC 3D > QEMM 5.11 (for EMM) > DOS 3.3 > WINDOWS 3.0 > Hey, you right! I have 9 groups, totally 225 icons in PM. and I have the same problem as you. I am using ...... 386-25 ,387 800*600*16 SVGA QEMM 5.11 (will it cause problem?) DOS 4.0 Junne