[Discussion] OS Refresh after Hardware Upgrade

Bob POSSI-4c9yah2 at listemail.net
Wed May 30 19:50:51 PDT 2007


** Reply to message from Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> on Wed, 30 May
2007 19:34:59 -0700 (PDT)

> One of the points that Steven Levine makes - about the older versions
> of 
> OS/2, at least - is that the *.ini files get a /LOT/ of 'junk' put into
> 
> them over time. Periodically 'cleaning' that out /DOES/ improve 
> performance. (The 'junk' is all sorts of path info, window
> positions(?), 
> out-of-date references.) Hank Kelder's 'Ini-Tool Set' would be the way 
> it'd get done.

It is not just the older versions of OS/2 even eCS needs this type of
maintenance.  I run cleanini about once a month.  It probably does not need to
be run that often but if I don't do it regularly I forget to do it until I
start having various miscellaneous problems.

-- 
Robert Blair



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