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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Can MultiFinder turn itself on?
Message-ID: <7671@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 89 17:40:36 GMT
Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Organization: Department of Media Services, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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This may sound like a silly question, but is there any way that the
Set Startup option could become set to MultiFinder instead of Finder
through any way OTHER than the user doing so manually?

One of our users has experienced a problem where MultiFinder was set
as the startup option.  She KNOWS that she didn't turn it on, and
she's VIRTUALLY CERTAIN that no one else would have done it (she's
the only one who has physical access to the computer most of the time, 
as it's in a locked enclosure).  Could this happen any other way?  Is
there a procedure that would allow software to change this setting?  If
so, does anyone know of any software that's rude enough to do so?

This is just the latest in a string of problems she's been having with
this computer, including Excel reporting file locked errors when the
files were definitely NOT locked or otherwise busy, and Excel setting
the Save As format to SYLK all by itself.

Is there a connection among these things?  Anyone recognize these Excel
problems?  Are we the victims of a cosmic April Fools joke?  :-)


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