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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......