I picked up an "old" laptop at a back yard SALE for $5.00.It's an Epson Actionnote 650.I started it and opened several windows to see what was on the hard drive. I double clicked "Clarisworks" and it ran SUCCESSFULLY. Before I downloaded the manual for the laptop,I fooled around with the video drivers,trying to bring up color on the LCD.The screen went blank and I couldn't bring it back no matter what  I did! I obtained the Windows 3.1 setup disks and reinstalled the operating system and got a display.I also bought Brian Livingston's "Windows 3.1 Secrets" and followed instructions for installing Clarisworks (which was resident on the hard drive) in the 'Program Manager-Applications' window,using the 'Properties' Dialog Box.The icon for Clarisworks showed up in the 'PM-Applications' window. When I double click the icon, the screen goes blank,the horizontal cursor blinks in the UPPER left corner of the screen,the hard drive spins for about 4 to 5 seconds and the 'PM-Applications' window reappears...namely,Clarisworks refuses to run! It seems as though the OS is searching for something and can't find it. After searching through the directory trees in 'File Manager',I edited Autoexec.bat to add items to the Path= statement to enable a wider search and I still can't call up Clarisworks. I am bambozzled. Help!

My Autoexec.bat path statement:

       Path=C:\;C:\win;C:\DOS;C:\win\claris;C:\system;C:\win\mab;C:\win\system

(C:\win\claris is the search path to clworks.exe,the program command and C:\win\mab leads to five documents on the HD)

on a separate line in Autoexec.bat:

Path=%path%;C:\GEO-PC\BIN         (I don't understand this line.)

INCLUDED in the Autoexec.bat file:

SET GEO-PC=C:\GEO-PC\      (I don't have a clue what this means!)


Ccomputer Specifications:

Operating System(OS)-Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6.22
Computer -Epson Actionnote 650 (Ca 1992?)
RAM-4Mb+16Mb upgrade=20Mb
Hard Drive-260Mb
Video Driver-VGA
CPU-Cyrix SL enhanced,Cx486DX2-50Mhz with 8k internal cache
ROM-128kb flash ROM
Video RAM-512kb DRAMThere are some missing files, or something was overwritten with the WIndows 3.1 install. Without the Clarisworks DISKETTES, you are probably SOL. But for $5 and it works at all.....GX1_Man:
    Thanks for your participation and help.  Sorry it could not have a better outcome for you.