was that it significantly improved the speed of some Finder activities, such as quitting to the Finder and opening folders containing a large number of files. Notwithstanding these advantages, I never really thought much about using DTM since there were a number of problems, such as its leaving some open files which caused problems with some ungraceful exits (such as a bomb, or forced unmounting of a hard drive). Other problems had to do with documents having difficulties locating their applications, and documents reverting to the generic icon instead of that of the application. Recently I heard that the more current Systems (6.0.4 and later) were designed to work in more harmony with DTM which would seem to offer help with some of the earlier problems. I also have heard that DTM or some variant thereof will be used with System 7 when it appears. So I decided to check it out. Installation is easy. DeskTop Manager is a INIT (17K in size). You just drop it into your System Folder and restart the Mac. DTM will create two new, invisible files on the desktop called "Desktop DB and Desktop DF. These will be used now instead of the old "Desktop" file used by the Finder. When you restart, hold down the Command and Option keys to rebuild these new files. Some recommend deleting the old Desktop file. However, this is not really necessary unless you need the space, since as long as you startup the Mac from the system whose file contains DTM the old file will just
be ignored. In fact, this can be useful in speeding up the
startup process if you ever startup from a system not
containing DTM (or turn off the DTM INIT with some INIT
