If the information on this page regarding the different &cfgsys; settings is not sufficient for you, you'll find additional explanations in the respective chapters of the &os2; Command Reference.
Press "Apply" to have the changes you've made written to the &cfgsys; file. This will only change the &cfgsys; lines which correspond to the settings on this page. The lines corresponding to the other pages in the "&os2; Kernel" object will not be changed. This button is only active if you have made any changes to the settings on this page. Please note that you will have to restart the computer to let the changes take effect. A Desktop restart does not suffice.
Press "Optimize" to have &xwp; propose you new settings according to your system characteristics. &cfgsys; will only be changed after you press "Apply" also.
Press "Default" to have the &os2; default settings displayed on the notebook page. &cfgsys; will only be changed after you press "Apply" also.
If you enable the "Suppress hardware errors", those annoying &os2; error messages about drives not being ready and other hardware errors will finally disappear. When this is enabled, &os2; automatically reports the error which occured to the application, which it would otherwise only do if you selected "Return error code" in the white error window which then appears. This corresponds to the AUTOFAIL=YES setting.
Enabling the "Suppress exception messages" setting will result in exception messages not being displayed in an error window, but instead they will only written to the POPUPLOG.OS2 file in the root directory of the drive you specify. This corresponds to the SUPPRESSPOPUPS=x settings. Note that since &warp; 3 fixpak 29 this file is always written to the boot drive, even if this setting is not enabled.
If you enable the "Automatically reboot after trap" setting, &os2; will
automatically restart the whole system after one of those unrecoverable error messages
with "The system was halted." appears. This is helpful for machines which must
run unattended, such as network servers.