jsheff0 wrote:

> Hi, Bill,
>
> Today I once again am unable to run Guide; it is prompting me for a
> disk in the CD drive. The only remedy is for me to reinstall the
> entire program. Bill, this is the 3rd time this has happened to me in
> the past few weeks! At one point you mentioned you could write a patch
> for this bug. Please let me know when that's available.

I had the same problem a few years ago.
I put it down to not having enough memory and when I had the memory overloaded I
would get a similar problem to yours. If you have a corrupted "startup.mar" you
may run Guide for a while then all of a sudden it fails. You do this a couple of
times and eventually the program gets so confused it won't start at all.

The best solution is to get Guide set up the way you want it, and then BEFORE
DOING ANYTHING ELSE -- save a copy of "startup.mar" rename it to something else
i.e. "Default.mar"-- store in another folder.
When your program fails replace the "startup.mar" with the (Default.mar). Rename
the "default.mar" to "startup.mar" -- then restart Guide.

Good luck

Larry Wood