i'm hoping for some information that can help me avoid a bunch of
reinstalls.
the copy of Windows 95 that i own is quite old. the CD installs
as 4.00.950, with no suffix. after installing the service pack,
it shows 4.00.950a.
in order to bring it up to some semblance of the modern age, i
started installing various updates found at the microsoft page
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/), and i did successfully
install the service pack, the library update, the y2k upgrade, and a
couple of others. unfortunately, somewhere in there i also installed
the "Windows Socket Update - Kernel 32" patch, and this made my system
unbootable and i had to reinstall Windows. (i forget the exact order
in which i did things -- i may have installed this fairly early.)
in any case -- since i understand that win4lin does some patching of
windows system files of its own, i'm wondering what updates/upgrades
from microsoft are "safe" to install, and which i should avoid?
any help with this would be appreciated.
as a bonus question :-), the reason i'm trying to do some of these
upgrades is in hopes of eliminating an application error i get when i
try and run my copy of rand mcnally's Streetfinder Deluxe. on another
computer on which i had the same Win95 version installed (though DLL's
were probably upgraded by various application installs over the years),
StreetFinder worked fine. but when run on my fresh win4lin install,
it gives the following error:
"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down".
clicking "Details" gets me:
STRFINDR caused an exception c06d007eH in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0147:9ff9a07c.
Registers:
EAX=00d6f67c CS=0147 EIP=9ff9a07c EFLGS=00004246
EBX=00000000 SS=014f ESP=00d6f678 EBP=00d6f6cc
ECX=00d6f694 DS=014f ESI=00d6f724 FS=0ca7
EDX=ffffffff ES=014f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
5e 8b e5 5d c2 10 00 64 a1 00 00 00 00 55 8b ec
Stack dump:
5f49d0c0 c06d007e 00000000 00000000 9ff9a07c
00000001 00d6f6f0 ffffffff 00000018 780012d9
00000020 00000000 00d6f5a4 00000000 9ff7c4f7
5f4aef00
since the whole reason i'm evaluating win4lin (i'm running 3.0, on
redhat 7.1) is to be able to use this mapping software on my linux
laptop, i'd love to hear suggestions on how to fix this, or on how to
figure out why it works on my desktop but not on my new install.
thanks very much for any thoughts or advice...
paul
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paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 64.8 degrees)
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