 p᭥쪮  p  2.99
㯯 ⮢饩

A: (Felix Eng)

     During BOOTUP, pressing ALT-F2 will show the
     device drivers currently being loaded up. This is
     very useful for problem determination.


A: (Norbert Heller, submitted by Chuck Bogorad)

EDITOR
   - There is a new Editor called TEDIT ( YEP : The TINI Editor )
     in your c:\os2 directory

MMPM/2
   - The MMPM/2 Video player will play videos at fullscreen 1024*786
     AVI as well as FLI and FLC

POINTERS
   - To change the system pointers, use the Mouse settings in the
     System Setup folder.

   - To create a set of custom pointers (say "Custom"), create the
     subdirectory x:\OS2\POINTERS\Custom.  Look in another pointer
     directory (say, x:\OS2\POINTERS\BLACK) for the proper names for
     the pointers, then create a pointer using the Icon Editor,
     placing the new file in x:\OS2\POINTERS\Custom.  You can also
     copy the contents of another directory into
     x:\OS2\POINTERS\Custom, then modify the pointers by
     double-clicking on them.

ICONS
     The following REXX script (placed in a CMD file) will (assuming a
     folder named 'Multimedia' exists directly on the desktop) change its
     open and close icons to the appropriate icons (assuming that the
     OS/2 desktop and mmos2 are both on drive E).

     /* REXX */
     call RxFuncAdd 'SysSetObjectData','RexxUtil','SysSetObjectData'
     call SysSetObjectData "E:\DESKTOP\MULTIMEDIA",,
          "ICONFILE=E:\MMOS2\INSTALL\MMPMFLDR.ICO";

     call SysSetObjectData "E:\DESKTOP\MULTIMEDIA",,
          "ICONNFILE=1,E:\MMOS2\INSTALL\MMPMFLD2.ICO";

     Also note that the first SysSetObjectData could contain

     ICONNFILE=0,E:\MMOS2\INSTALL\MMPMFLDR.ICO as its identical in function to
     ICONFILE=E:\MMOS2\INSTALL\MMPMFLDR.ICO.


LAUNCH PAD
   - Double-clicking on the desktop brings up the LaunchPad.

   - The 'Delete...' option on the LaunchPad popup menu removes this
     effect.  :-)

   - The name for the Launch Pad is FRONT PANEL in the doku

SYSTEM
   - Look in OS/2 System --> System Setup --> System --> Window (page
     2) for settings on closing parent folders.

   - The accelerator key for the settings notebook on a popup menu
     is 'g.'  The underbar is blocked by the tail of the 'g.'

   - Use the Desktop notebook page of the Desktop notebook to make
     your desktop permanent.

   - Use REIPL=YES in CONFIG.SYS to automatically reboot after a
     system trap or internal processing error.

   - Use SUPRESSPOPUPS=C to suppress the popup box for trap
     information and log the events in a file on C:.

   - Invoke VIEW with the /topic switch (e.g., VIEW /Shutdown) to
     search all libraries for the specified topic.

   - The display driver option WORKPLACE SHELL PALETTE AWARE
     only works for resolutions with 256 colors.

   - Your INI files as well as the Config.sys and Autoexec,bat will be
     saved into the directory c:\os2\archives when specified in the DESKTOP
     Archives Settings Page

     To recover these Archives Press ALT-F1 at startup and some options 
     will be displayed

     Here you may also switch to VGA or have a command line at bootup


