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From: prove@batcomputer.UUCP
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Subject: Desqview installation problem
Message-ID: <2110@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 03:36:21 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.2110
Posted: Sat Jan 24 03:36:21 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 16:04:43 EST
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell U., Ithaca NY
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Keywords: desqview


	A few months ago I bought an AST Premium pack eems card
that came with a copy of desqview.  There was a serious problem with
the installation of desqview that others contemplating a similar
move may want to know about.  The disk came with an install program,
which loads all of the software into the appropriate places and
appends a few lines to the config.sys and autoexec.bat files.  Running
this the first time worked ok.  However, I decided to change a few
of the parameters (partitioning the memory into ems and eems parts,
etc) and the "safest" way seemed to be running install again.  Wrong!
The result of this 2nd installation was a trashed hard disk.  About 20
files were cross-linked.  Just to make sure I zapped the cross-linked
files and tried again: more cross-linked files.  Is this some kind
of insidious copy protection?  Luckily I had make a backup shortly
before and did not lose anything but time.  Has anyone out there
had a similar experience with this stuff?  I could find no mention
of an installation limit of one in the docs.
	After that I installed an older version of desqview by hand
and have had no problems with it.  I can no longer live without it.
The multitasking is nice (I got the card and desqview so that I 
could use a Definicon 68020 in the background, works well) and it
makes procomm much more useful by allowing the redefinition of all
the keys.  A welcome surprise was the fact that CED works normally
in a desqview window (but the process must be set so that it can't 
be swapped to disk).  It does not require a mouse or 80586 to be
effective, and applications are not required to do their own 
multitasking management (unlike MS windows).  It will even clear
out a hung program at times by ripping it out of memory, avoiding
a system reset.
	But: backup the target drive before installing it.

Roger Ove
prove@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
14004@ncsavmsa.bitnet
prove@uiucvmd.bitnet