In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pgf-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>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,
bad move! for two reasons, (the 1st see below) and the 2nd being that
any tampering in the winsock area is potentially fraught
>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.
look in /opt/win4lin/patch and much will become clear (er). (I think the
kernel32 patch there allows the module to be relocated from bfxxxxxx to
9fxxxxxx and hammers an sidt or two... - fairly significant changes!)
Bob
--
robert w hall
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