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When even a power-cycle fandango cannot save your Windows desktop

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Re: PROGMAN.EXE

Because, of course, there was a lot of software that relied on PROGMAN.EXE rather than bothering to check what the user's shell actually was (which even in the 3.x days didn't *have* to be progman, but usually was)

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