OS2.INI
and
OS2SYS.INI
, exit xfix and do it now, then restart.
xfix can identify many problems but can only fix a few of them. If your system is seriously corrupted, many of these problems may still be present after using xfix,
Abstract objects
, you have non-file
objects such as shadows that have gotten lost. To recover them, click
MB2 on that handle then select Move abstracts to Desktop. If you
don't do this, these objects will be deleted when you delete this handle.
Delete
key or select Delete
from
the &popmenu;.
This is where xfix is at its best. You may have a huge number of handles that the WPS will never use and do nothing except slow it down. They point to valid files but are unnecessary in most cases and can be deleted.
Protect
from the
&popmenu; or press Ctrl+P
.
Good candidates for deletion are .DLL
and
.ZIP
. Programmers can probably delete their
.C
, .CPP
, and
.H
files. If you have a large number of, say,
.JPG
files and aren't sure whether to delete them,
just delete one or two of them. After you close xfix, see if this
had any negative consequences -- if not, restart xfix and delete all
of them.
Cancel
and fix the problem. If not, press Yes
.
Yes
.