1 Unrecognized video card and updating
drivers?
2 Troubleshooting Tips?
3 Find 32-bit (win95 compatible) software
and programs?
4 Find a 32-bit Postscript Viewer?
5 Find a (32-bit) 1.6 meg diskette utility?
6 Find a 32-bit Text Editor?
7 EUDORA: stop receiving MS-EXCHANGE *.rtf attachments
9 Shareware & Freeware goodies
10 M$ PowerToys?
11 Harddrive Peformance & 32bit mode?
12 Change CD-Rom drive letter? Jaz
/ Zip problems Send me straight to the SCSI
section!
13 Bilingual Keyboard settings?
14 Configure speaker.exe sound driver?
15 PC Anywhere -- screen problems?
16 I want to use the Dvorak keyboard setup.
Where is it and how do I install it?
17 Tyan Tomcat I and Win95 Won't Detect Mouse
?
18 Removing Master HDD (i.e. removing a physical
C - & Trying to keep the software ) ?
19 Partitioning a Hard-Drive so what?
20 What's the difference
between 16 and 32 bit applications?
   
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My setup went fine, but the Hardware Wizard couldn't find my video card (a Advance Logic GUI-Ultra) or my monitor (15' Darius, had the manufacturer but not the model listed). As a result I have to use VGA settings, which limits me too 16 color and 640x480 resolution. Is there an alternative?
This might rescue you from your 640 X 480 purgatory. I ran the automatic resolution changer that came with the video card, the one used with win 3.1. (It doesn't go through the setup program) So I selected my resolution and it prompted me to 'Restart Windows?' I thought that it would send me into the Win95 Restart screen but it didn't. It rebooted windows and came back in just fine at 1280 X 1024 @ 256c.
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Look first for an answer in PROGRAM RELEASE NOTES; it includes discussion and 'fixes' for known hardware and software problems located in the following folder:
If you have the CD-ROM (Preview Version), print a copy of the WINDOWS 95 (tm) Resource Kit's Table of Contents (26 pages) located in folder: cd-rom drive Letter\wrk95\chapters\RK0.toc.d.. The Resource Kit documentation offers extensive notes and technical discussion about various topics from:
Installation 4 chapters Networking and Remote Admin 12 chapters Security 1 chapter Performance Tuning 1 chapter System Configuration 6 chapters Communications (modems, NET, etc) 7 chapters System Architecture and Registry 3 chapters Other References (one chapter each); International win95 General Troubleshooting Glossary (16 pages) Command-Line Summary (51 pages) 'DOS' commands MS.BATCH.INF 'BAT' files
I printed the TOC, two SETUP chapters and pretty much all the chapters between 21 - 35 and selected appendices including the Command-Line Summary and it was about 1,000 pages. No, I haven't read them all -- just chapters or pages related to specific problems I had or had anticipated.
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Try : ftp.wisc.cs.edu and the directory is: /ghost/aladdin; the files are:
for 16-bit windows and dos, you may also want to get
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I found WinImage ver2.0 Beta 4 in the WUGNET forum on CompuServe under the name WIMBTA.ZIP (257K)
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Where can I find a 32-bit text editor to handle any size file?
I use a *Freeware* program that is delightful, comes either 16-bit or 32-bit, file size unlimited: All around great text editor!! called Programmer File Editor (PFE). It can be found at cica or a cica mirror -- file name is: pfe0602.zip
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Click SPECIAL menu \ click CONFIGURATION Make sure the "Auto Receive Attachment" box is not checked.
EUDORA 2.x At 12:37 AM 7/23/95 -0400, Paul wrote: Regarding EUDORA, here's another option (at least in the registered version (2.1.1):
- Under the attachments setting, select a directory to have them goto.
- Check the "Delete Attachments when emptying trash" box
So, by doing this, all the attachments will goto a separate directory and then get deleted when you delete the message if valid attachment, I just move it to another directory before delete the message it was contained in.
EUDORA LITE (eudora 1.4) freeware users don't have an automated solution but there is a "kluge" DOS solution. -- select the SPECIAL menu, CONFIGURATION: -- click on "Auto Attachment Bar" C:\TEMP -- add a line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT using the SYSEDIT (Systems Tools win3.x) to DEL C:\TEMP\R*.*
Confirmation can be passed automatically in a *.bat file (Use DELTREE /Y C:\TEMP\*.* if DOS 6.x and above or create a text file called Y.TXT with the first line being the character Y then a carriage return, and use DEL C:\TEMP\*.*<path\Y.TXT (substitute the location of Y.TXT for the word "path" here).
or
Echo Y|del C:\Temp\*.*
Works every time, & you don't have to worry about having deltree on the path.
Most of the the *.rtf files begin with R (for RE:). You will still have to manually delete the other *.rtf files but at least there in TEMP directory. If your brave enough, add DEL C:\TEMP\*.* I did try this option but on boot up, DOS prompts for confirmation.
I've created a directory called RTFtemp and turned back on eudora's auto attachment feature since the *.rtf files attachments are starting to increase again. Create a shortcut to RTFtemp and place on the desktop. Click on it. Edit. Select All. Delete.Good Luck!
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You apparently have not taken time to read the release notes under the Help menu in Netscape. I quote from:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/1.2/relnotes/windows-1.2b5.html
"Running the 32-bit version on Win95: If you get an error message "Netscape was unable to create network socket connection (Reason 10047)," it is probably because you are trying to run the 32-bit version of Netscape using a 16-bit winsock application. To run the 32-bit version of Netscape, you need a 32-bit winsock application. Win95 comes with a 32-bit TCP/IP stack, but you need to install it." ---Xiphias
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1.Create a folder for the PowerToys. Right-click on the desktop and choose New:Folder from the pop-up menu. Name the folder "Power".
2. Download the PowerToys. Click the link on the PowerToy page to download the file "PowerToy.exe". Save it in the Power folder you just created.
3. De-compress the file "PowerToy.exe". Open the Power folder and double-click the file "PowerToy.EXE". This will create several new files in your Power folder.
4. Install the PowerToys. Find the new Setup Information files ("INF" files -- they look like notepads with a little yellow gear on each). Right-click each one (one for each PowerToy), then choose Install.
1. Open the control panel. On the Start Menu, choose Settings->Control Panel.
2. Open "Add/Remove Programs". Find the Control Panel called Add/Remove Programs and double-click it.
3. Remove PowerToys. Select the PowerToy you want to uninstall on the list, then click the button marked "Add/Remove".
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Since installing win95, I've noticed decreased performance.
If your motherboard's bios supported Block Mode or 32-bit disk access, turn it off.
It seems to conflict with either your hard drive controller or Windows 95 itself. I was also on the phone with Microsoft, until they finally gave up. I decided to turn off those two items, plus LBA mode, and everything is now at 32 bit disk access... No problems...
I hope that work for ya.------ Zubin
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To change the Drive letter access Control Panel\System\Device Manager\CD-ROM\Properties\Settings....---chris@
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1998 07:18:58 -0500 From: Hans Klarenbeek <[email protected]> Subject: Changing the CD-Rom Drive letter nice but who the F**K cares?
Valid point Reg. Until you people out there experience the joys of SCSI... When you add a SCSI device you CD being according to Dos/Windows 95 the CD-Rom drive is the last in food chain means that all the apps which used to run from CD don't anymore, SHIT! (Sometimes a Mac is ahead of the PC - though not often trust me!)
So if you have added a new removable SCSI device be it Zip Drive (as it was in my case or anything else that assigns a drive letter click here!
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We have lots of bilingual keyboards called TBITS-5 keyboards. In order to work under DOS, you have to set the codepage to 850. Is there a facility to do that under Windows95? You need to add the following two lines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT:
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1: Get the speaker driver at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/speak.exe
2: Run speak.exe to decompress it and make speaker.drv
3: Copy speaker.drv to \Windows\System
4: Add to SYSTEM.INI Under the drivers section, add a line that says Wave=speaker.drv And add a new section just like this
5: Save SYSTEM.INI.
6: Reboot/restart
7: Start Control Panel. Make sure no other programs are running.
8: Open Multimedia 9: Click on the "Advanced" Tab
10: Double click on Audio Devices, to open up Audio for Sound Driver for PC-Speaker
11: Click on Audio for Sound Driver for PC-Speaker
12: Click on Properties.
13: Click on Settings
14: You're now at the change speaker settings dialog box from Windows 3.1. Click on Default.
15: Adjust volume, Limit, & Enable interupts to you hearts delight. I hope this proves helpful. (again :-) Mark
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I am running PCAnywhere on Win95 at home and on Win3.1 at work. It works very well... no problems at all but for the black screen thing, there is a patch available for version 2.0 only.
ftp.symantec.com
in directory /public/windows/pca: 20UP_A.EXE (777K 05/04/95): Update file for PCA 2.0 This file updates you to the latest revision of PCA 2.0 for Windows, and includes complete support for WIN95. ---,pauls, jharris@
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I want to use the Dvorak keyboard setup. In WFWG 3.11 it was in Control Panel | International. Can't find it in 95.
Look instead in Control Panel | Keyboard. Look at Tab Input Locales and click [Properties] just select US Dvorak
Hansie
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How exactly are pc's with more that one processors set up? Would I need a special motherboard with more that one cpu slot or could I hook several motherboards, each with their own cpu, up together and have them act as one pc?
Windows 95 does not support more than one processor. Microsoft Windows NT workstation (3.51 & V4.0) supports 2 processor and server supports many more. As for adding a CPU to your motherboard, you can not. You need to get a motherboard that is made to handle more than one CPU. Hooking up motherboards to one another will not work. (athough using NT4.0 and appropriate software several machines across a network can compute a sinle task - hansie) I am not sure why you need mulitprocessors as a Pentium Pro is probably faster on the workstation than Dual Pent processors. (Hmm debatable?? ) Servers have the best use for more than one processor and that is where Windows NT server comes in. gurevitz@
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Tyan Tomcat I M/B, Award Bios v2.12 (latest posted at Tyan site for this board), while formatting HD, installed Dos6.x/Win3.1 in preparation for returning to Win95 (I always do setup this way, as an upgrade from a generic dos/win installation, because it has always worked). Mouse worked fine in win3.1 (bus mouse), as soon as upgrade to win95, win95 unable to detect it. Tried serial mouse also, same result. Any ideas? this looks like a bios/win95 issue to me, because it did work in 3.1.
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1998 23:54:28 GMT From: Bob Yellin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Tyan Tomcat I and Win95 Won't Detect Mouse
Suggestion: - Are you using the serial cables that came with the board? There are two types of com port pinouts in general use: IBM & Everex. The Tomcat uses the IBM pinout and most other motherboards use the Everex. Though the mouse may function under certain circumstances with the "wrong" pinout, it won't function properly in all cases. The cables supplied with the board use the correct pinout for the board. This was the solution to the problem when my mouse wouldn't work under Win95. Hope this helps.\
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1998 23:54:28 GMT From: "Neil D. Eisner, D.D.S." <[email protected]> Subject: HARDWARE: Tyan Tomcat Motherboard/Mouse Will Not Work
Solution:- Thanks for all of the suggestions. For now, upgrading to the AWARD Bios v3.02 (this is NOT at Tyan's Web Site, only at their BBS, and without a title - in other words, it seemed to be that they didn't want this version distributed) worked, but not with a bus mouse. A serial mouse works, but Win95 doesn't detect the presence of one or list it in device manager. Neil
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18 HARDWARE: Removing Master HDD (i.e. removing a physical C - & Trying to keep the software) ?
In my PC I have two HDD's. The Master is a Old IBM 170MB and the Slave is a fairly new WD 1.2GB. The IBM is configured as Drive C: and the WD is configured as D: thru H:. I plan to remove the IBM as it's seriously degrading performance.
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1998 From: "Hans Klarenbeek" <[email protected]> Subject: HARDWARE: Removing Master HDD
1) Can I just copy all Data (WIN95 et al) to the WD HDD and set the jumpers to be the Master or is it more complicated ???
It is definitely more complicated as none of your programmes (well large ones anyway) would work...... Since all application's paths are stored absolutely by removing C: thus D: becomes C: E: become D: and so on.... all those Registry entries and ini files would spit the dummy.... You could fix these programmes but it may be less time consuming to reinstall them.
2) Also, I plan to buy another 1.2GB HDD, would it be easier to specify this as a 2nd Slave HDD, copy the IBM to this, then set it to the master. ??? Yes! this will work a lot better. From: "Ray D. Stambaugh" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Removing Master HDD
I recently performed a similar task. I assume your second drive has data on it. If so reformatting will erase all data on that drive.
What I did:
1. Install the new drive as a slave.
2. Configured the BIOS for the second drive.
Note: steps 3 through 5 were done in a DOS window, (NOT DOS MODE)
3. Using FDISK created one primary partition using the entire disk.
4. Using FORMAT to format the new drive and copy the system files.
5. In a use xcopy c:\*.* d: /E /C /H /R /K This will copy all files from c to d. See xcopy /? for switch meanings
6. Created a boot floppy disk with fdisk on it.
7. Turned the power off and swapped the drives. New drive is C, old drive D.
8. Turned the power on and entered the BIOS setup. Set the HDD parameters. Saved the new settings
9. Reboot from the boot floppy.
10. Using FDISK set the primary partition active.
11. Remove the boot floppy and reboot.
What you should do:
1. Since you are using the second drive, steps 1 through 4 of my procedure should have been done already.
2. In a DOS windows use SYS d: to copy the system files.
3. Do steps 5 through 11 of my procedure. Except remove your old drive.
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19 Partitioning a Hard-Drive so what?
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1998 20:39:03 GMT From: Bob Kurke <[email protected]> Subject: Adding hard drive partitioning question
I assume you wish to keep your cluster size down,
hence the partitions.
I have a 1.6 and formatted c,d,&e to 500, and a tiny f for some private
files that no one els has access to. I am not in any danger of running
out of space for program files. Then again I do not have tons of
software. If you do, maybe you should make the c:drive bigger, below is
the cluster to partition relationship.
| FDISK Partition Size* | Cluster Size |
| 0-127 MB | 2K |
| 128-255 MB | 4K |
| 256-511 MB | 8K |
| 512-1023 MB | 16K |
| 1024-2047 MB | 32K |
* 1 MB=1,048,576 bytes
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1998 10:21:46 -0700 From: Rick Teale <[email protected]> Subject: Re: HARDWARE:Hard Disk
No, you can NOT use Partition Magic *in* Win95. (I'm taking the most literal interpretation of your question). You must run PM from MS-DOS mode.
I recommend downloading and installing the latest update from the PowerQuest web site before you use it.
If you like, I can send you a couple of their monthly "The Partition Magician" newsletters that contain excellent technical info on doing exactly what you want to do.
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20 What's the difference between 16 and 32 bit applications?
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1998 17:23:11 -0400 From: grt <[email protected]> Subject: Re: difference between 32 apss and 16 bit apps
Question:- I have been using Win-95 for the past year and a half and am quite confused about 32 bit apps Vs 16 bit apps. I know for a fact that there's supposedly more you get from a 32 bit app compared to a 16 bit app in that you can use long file names and that the right mouse has different abilities but what makes 32 bit apps so special besides being Win 95 native?
Answer:- The Intel 386, 486, Pentium etc use a 32 bit instruction set. A 32 bit application can thus handle large numbers more effectively than a 16 bit one since fewer instructions and memory accesses are required. 32 bit code uses a flat address space (up to 4 GB) whereas a 16 bit app can see only 64K of data at a time. To use more than 64K of data, a 16 bit app will have to load and unload segment registers in order to get at the data. Thus a 32 bit app will be faster if it has to handle large arrays of data, perform calculations or move data around in memory etc.
Under Windows 95, 32 bit apps are preemtively multitasked and support multiple threads of execution. Each 32 bit app sees a private address space (between addresses 2GB and 4 GB). It cannot see other 32 bit processes and thus interfere with them. 16 bit apps are run in a shared address space (2 GB to 3 GB) along with system DLLs and shared DLLs. They are cooperatively multitasked (an app can hog the system) and can interfere with one another.
Windows NT on the other hand, runs 32 bit apps in a private address space also. Unlike Win 95, they have no direct access to the system DLLs and cannot interfere with them and crash the system. 16 bit apps can be run in a shared address space or in a private space for each, again isolated from other programs and the system componants.
Thus 32 bits is the way to go. The only downside is that with a new 32 bit compiler, some programmers take advantage of ALL the features of the user interface. Having to upgrade also means adding new features to the app. As a result it can get loaded with all sorts of things and become bloated and slow.
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21 Dual Monitors in Windows 95 or Windows NT
Is it possible to have dual monitors in Windows 95 or Windows NT??? This issue generated a lot of outdated advise or indeed incorrect advise - generally it was though that two different types of card would work ok eg. a Mono card and a VGA card since they would not share the same address space - the other strain of thought was that you would need a specially designed card to so...
I quote:-
'Using just off the shelf cards I believe it is not possible as the boards would have to share the I/O Memory locations. I have heard of a card for industrial applications that will drive two different monitors with different windows active on each, at the same time.'
'Worth a try, but it's not like the sound card where you can set the " preferred " device. So it may not work. A conflict in resources will likely show up, so one of them will not work. Assume that that card is the B & W . The trick may be to have 2 HardWare Profiles, one disabling the card that works so that the B & W will go .'
'I have run both a Mono and a VGA card in the same machine, BUT in order to use the mono card, your software has to be especially written for dual cards - in my case the only thing that could take advantage of the second card was a C/C++ Debugger -- not of great use for most users, and newest versions of compilers no longer support the two video card option.'
This discussion ran along side the Matrox Millenium vs the Matrox Mystique debate, this was rather humerous since the latter can quite happily run 2 or more monitors if installed in multiples.... Please contact Matrox for more details