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E/D Win95 Hack to TEMP FIX Drive problem.






     Ok, here goes all. As pointed out by the person who first mentioned
     this problem, The drive problem does not show up when Windows 95 is
     botted into MS-DOS mode. So it is obviously surronding a change in
     Windows95 dealing with disk access, etc.My guess would be it had
     something to do with Executor trying to make direct disk access, which
     is a no-no in Win95. Anyways, here is the best work around. Create an
     icon on your desktop for executor. Then edit it's properties (right
     mouse button on icon then select properties). Click on the Program Tab
     in properties. add whatever Executor command line switches you want.
     Then Click on the box that says "close on exit" (this will
     automatically exit MSDOS when executor is done). Hit the "Advanced"
     Button next. In this area you want to click on the "MS-DOS Mode"
     button and then the "use current MS-DOS configuration" button". I have
     all the other button un-checked. Now, the trick to this is you need to
     put a DOS mouse driver in your standard autoexec.bat or Executor won't
     run. Reboot and now when you click on the icon Windows will exit to
     DOS (without rebooting), run executor, and then when you exit it will
     start Windows 95 again (without rebooting).

     If you don't load the mouse driver and try to use "specify a new
     MS-DOS configuration" in the "Advanced" section to load the mouse
     driver, it will work, but the machine will reboot before running
     Executor each time (to load the new MSDOS config you specified) and
     reboot and again when you exit Executor (to reload the old MSDOS
     config for WIN95).......



     Hope this helps......


     Sean
     skane@email.usps.gov


     P.S. since you are in DOS you would also need to load mscdex, etc. for
     your cdrom to be visable......