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From: c60c-2ij@e260-4d.berkeley.edu (Seg fault)
Subject: Re: How to UnMinimize Program Manager
Message-ID: <1991May14.080718.4478@agate.berkeley.edu>
Sender: gunjan@garnet.Berkeley.EDU (Gunjan Bhow) 
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
References: <1991May7.172619.14418@mccc.edu> <47416@muvms3.bitnet>
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 08:07:18 GMT
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In article <47416@muvms3.bitnet> smith@muvms3.bitnet (Phil smith) writes:
>In article <1991May7.172619.14418@mccc.edu>, pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>> I don't know what I did but every time I enter WIN, PM comes up
>> minimized and I would like it to come up maximized.  I've looked through
>> WINI.INI and SYSTEM.INI and come up with zilch.  Can anyone suggest a
>> way to reverse this?

>I have read Pete's message and the corresponding responses.  I am 
>having the same problem and have tried to change my MinOnUse setting 
>for the program manager. I also do 'Save Changes' when I exit windows,
>(with the ProgMan expanded) but to no avail. I think our problem is 
>more esoteric than this.
>
>
>I DO run a software package via the 'run=' command of the Win.Ini
>script.  I am tracking to see if this software is shrinking the 
>ProgMan. I will let you know.
>
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I think your problem lies in the way Windows defaults works. 

If the lines "load=" and "run=" contain nothing, Windows defaults to 
PROGMAN.EXE and processes it according to the value of the MinOnUse 
setting. However, if any of those lines (load= & run=) DO contain anything,
windows just loads or runs those apps and DOES NOT do anything with progman.exe
and hence, the MinOnUse does not play a role. In order to, run progman, you 
need to explicitly specify progman.exe alongwith whatever other app you use.

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