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From: Dr Mike Ecker <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 4:13 PM
Subject: Unusual Win95 Problem: IOSUBSYS
hello mike!
>Subj: Unusual Win95 Problem: IOSUBSYS
>
>My kids' Pentium 200 running Windows 95 with 32 megs of RAM developed an
odd
>problem. My son had added Internet Explorer 4 (from a game-maker program
CD),
>which may or may not be relevant, except that I've heard talk of crashes.
u may be rite, it wud be difficult to customise MSIE4.0 even for a licensed
vendor!
but at the same time some extra proggies/DLL's/VXD's mite have been added to
enchance the original purpose of the CD program, in ur case one can assume
that display drivers may have been updated or changed..!
>I doubt memory is the problem, so I tried copying over the IOSUBSYS
directory
>from another Pentium from the same vendor (ProGen). No dice. (Could there
be
>some kind of OLE linking which is still seeing the original Iosubsys
>directory, even though I renamed that folder IOSUBSYS.BAD?)
windows may prhaps be doing a low-level access to the direcotry, try
removing it..!
or change the first name...
>Is anybody familiar with this problem? The kids did not have Windows backed
>up, and safe mode has not really helped. Where to begin??
the problem i had is similar to urs, after installing ie4.0 and shutting
down and then restarting again windows mysteriously kept dumping me into
'pure' dos (Command prompt only), sometimes my computer reports that the
boot information has been lost and halts there.. i seriosuly doubt a virus
but the problem may be windows trying buggy access to my system files...
neway i re-installed win95 over the current installation (win95+ie4.0) and
the problem sorted itself out and whats more i didnt lose ne of the fancy
stuff that ie provided me with..
i suggest u do the same.. altho at the end of the installation u may recieve
some nasty error msgs but ignore them...!
regards,
Kunal
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