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Desktop path too long
Name: Sjiwi Date: July 16, 2001 at 08:37:20 Pacific
Comment:
Hi,
I suddenly have a problem with Win95. It was working fine, but apparently something went wrong. Windows starts up, I get my background, no problem. But then an error box 'Desktop' appears saying "Can't access folder. Path is too long". And then I'm stuck... Ctrl+Alt+Del simply results in an empty task manager...
Name: tsuji Date: July 16, 2001 at 09:09:23 Pacific
Reply:
Suggest boot to command prompt. Use dir to locate all the desktop.ini :
c:\>dir /s desktop.ini
There would be quite a few. Then use edit.com to open and inspection them one by one. Changes are one or some of them have corrupted line(s). Subjective judgement is needed here. If you find any suspicious lines, place a semi-colon at the beginning of the line. Then reboot, see if it can be back to normal. Take care of the modified file(s) thereafter.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sjiwi Date: July 17, 2001 at 08:41:54 Pacific
Reply:
Tried it... and it worked ! (I still get some error messages, but I can finally start up Win again...)
Tsuji: must be cool, being that good :-) Thanks a lot !!
Summary: Windows starts up. Backround appears then error message comes up. Titled Desktop Error. In window it says "cannot open folder because file path is too long". I am left with backround only. Nothing...
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