Re: [guide-user] Re: Suddenly it wants the CD-ROM!/clobbered 'startup.mar'

Laren Dart Apr 10, 2011

At 11:31 AM 4/10/2011, you wrote:
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>Bill,
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>With my fingers crossed, I just tried this as a test and needed disc
>1 in the drive from then on. Shutting down with Guide running
>doesn't affect startup.mar, it seems to delete guide.exe. Using XP
>Home, sp3, G8 22 October, 2010. I think this is the latest version...?
>
>Searching for guide.exe does not find any instances. Searching for
>startup.mar shows 4 instances. (I have Guide installed in several
>places, paranoid backups, I guess!) Inserting disc 1 lets the
>program run guide.exe, but does not replace it. Probably the reason
>you have only seen this rarely is that few people shut down with
>Guide running, I never have until this test. Does this help?
>
>Larry

Apparently simply replacing guide.exe from a backup doesn't fix the
problem. I just tried this, and it didn't help.

Larry


Laren Dart
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