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Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:57:53 PST8
From:	"Mark Abramowitz" <marka@relaypoint.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Corrupt desktop

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In , on 11/16/03
at 09:09 PM, "Steven Levine" said:

>That's not going to work unless you understand the binary layout of the
>INI files as well as the logical layout of the handle tables.

Using iniedit, itlooked relatively logical,even given my very basic
understanding.

>Even if you
>could edit out the corruption in the handles table, if would be very
>difficult to figure out what the correct data should be.

Yep, though I was trying to match what was on my other partition, and
hope. ;-)

>Also, I have to assume that you are attempted to edit the old INIs while
>some other set of INIs is active or you would not have a usable Desktop.
> This is not for the faint of heart.

Well, my desktop *isn't* really useable for much, but I wasbootedtoanother
partition on the same machine, which allowed me to edit the current bad
ini.

>This is not for the faint of heart.

Yep, but I figured that I had nothing to lose, and that I might have some
fun, and learn something.

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