Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2) Release Candidate 1 Aug 12, 1996 Please see the file APPNOTES.DOC on the Windows 95 Test Release CD-ROM for detailed information on the features included in this release. If you need to view the Microsoft Word document format, you can install WordView from the \other\wordview directory on your CD. SETUP ===== - MAKE A NEW STARTUP DISK! Because of changes in the real-mode and protect mode kernels to support FAT32, Windows 95 build 950 startup disks are not compatible with OSR2 startup disks and vice-versa. Therefore, when setting up OSR2 for the first time, be sure to make a new startup disk - PLEASE DO THIS EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT PLANNING TO USE FAT32. - You should back up your core configuration files and registry using the ERU and CFGBACK utilities on the CD ROM before installing. These can be found in the \other\misc\eru and \other\misc\cfgback directory. Just run eru.exe and cfgback.exe and follow the instructions. - If you receive any version conflict dialogs during Setup, you should answer "No to All" to ensure that the OSR2 version of all files is installed. - If you have Diamond Video "In Control" utility in your startup group, you will get a message: "Some Control Panel or device settings have changed since you last started Windows. Close all of your programs, restart Windows, and then run Setup again." These utilities are installed by some Diamond Stealth display adapter drivers. Remove them from the startup group before running setup. - If you have the Number Nine Imagine 128 Display Adapter, you will probably have to either setup from MS-DOS or change your display driver to VGA to prevent setup from hanging. There is a new I128 driver in OSR-2. You should only use that driver with OSR-2 for now. - If you format your hard disk, you will need a boot floppy with real-mode CD-ROM drivers for your interface card and drive. These drivers are custom for each device. Microsoft does not supply real-mode CDROM drivers, you must contact your vendor if you do not have these drivers. Setup works best if you FDISK and format your hard disk, and then put the system files, and autoexec.bat, config.sys and your real-mode CD-ROM drivers on your hard disk. Otherwise, you will need to edit the template files on the CD in \betaonly\bootflop and use the DRVCOPY.INF to propagate these drivers to your hard disk during setup. For more information about how to setup on to a empty hard disk, see the APPNOTES.DOC file. - If you have a Compaq LTE 5xxx portable, Setup or Installing New Hardware may hang during Hardware Detection when the machine is docked. If this happens, just restart the machine and let Setup Safe Recovery continue. It will skip over the detection code that hangs, and complete setup normally. This is due to the way the BIOS works on this machine. - Time zone setting: the applet for setting your time zone no longer displays the time zone when you click on the map. This feature has been explicitly disabled, so please do not report bugs on it. IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT COMPRESSION AND FAT32: OSR2 will not mount DriveSpace Compressed Volume Files (CVFs) from FAT32 host drives. Dual Boot and FAT32 =================== You cannot use FAT32 on a machine that you need to dual-boot to another operating system, including the original release of Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.1 or MS-DOS 6.x. Other operating systems are unable to access a FAT32 partition. You CAN dual boot to Windows NT if drive C: is FAT16, but if you have other partitions that are FAT32, they will not be visible to other operating systems. There is a "bootdisk" utility available in for download that can restore Dual Boot to Old MS-DOS for beta testers, but this will not ship in the final OSR-2 product. FAT32 and Disk Free Space ========================= Most applications will be unable to display free or total disk space over 2GB, even on larger FAT32 drives. OSR2 provides new DOS and Win32 APIs that applications can utilize to determine free or total disk space over 2GB. FAT32 Converter =============== The FAT32 converter in the \betaonly directory is only a beta test tool. It will not be part of the final product. After running the FAT32 converter, Defrag will run on that drive during your next boot. Defragmenting your drive may take several hours after it has been converted. You CAN stop the defragmenter and run it at another time, but your system performance may be degraded until you allow the defragmenter to complete on this drive. For drives that are ONLY supported under Windows (drives that are not supported by your BIOS nor a DOS device driver), you can convert them under Windows if you run CVT.EXE with the /w command line switch, e.g.: CVT D: /w SAFE MODE ========= Running in Safe Mode may be considerably slower on FAT32 drives. Modem Detection may start AutoRun CDs ===================================== On some systems, running Modem detection may start the CD Autorun application. PCCard Modem Power Management: Modem Not Found or Not Ready =========================================================== Some PC Card modems require an extra delay when PC Card Power Management is enabled, before they are ready. If you encounter this with your PC Card modem, the symptoms are that it may not work when you try to use it, and then works if you try again right away. To increase the delay, you need to add a registry key using Regedit: 1. \HKey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem 2. Go to the key for the modem that you are trying to use, and add a key in the root of the modem key. 3. Edit / New, create a "DWord" named "ConfigDelay" (no quotes) 4. Set the value equal to "3000" for a 3 second delay. Please submit a bug with the delay necessary for your modem, and your computer manufacturer and model information, and we will add this to our list. INTERLNK ======== The InterLnk networking product contained in MS-DOS 6.x will not function properly in MS-DOS mode if you are using FAT32. INTERNET CONNECTION WIZARD ========================== Dialing Properties (Dialing Rules) ================================== This release of OEM SR2 includes updated dialing rules for local, long distance, and international calls in several countries. These updates are to fix problems that existed in the original release of Windows 95, and to implement new dialing rules for countries that have changed their dialing rules since the original release of Windows 95. During Setup, the updated rules will be automatically inserted in a "[CountryOverrides]" section of the TELEPHON.INI file in the WINDOWS directory of the target system. The update includes dialing rule changes for France, Finland, and Colombia. However, the new dialing procedures have not yet actually gone into affect in these countries (the Colombia change is in September 1996, and France and Finland in October 1996). The changes are included now in anticipation of these future changes, because by the time the systems preloaded with OEM SR2 reach store shelves in these countries, the changes will have gone into effect. If you will be testing OEM SR2 in France, Finland, or Colombia before the new dialing procedures are effective, you will need to use Notepad (or another text editor) to modify the "[CountryOverrides]" section of TELEPHON.INI. First copy the TELEPHON.INI file (for example, to "TELEPHON.SAV"). Then edit the file, and remove the line in the file corresponding to the country for which you want to revert to the existing dialing procedures (for example, delete the entire line that starts with "Country33=" to revert to the current rules for France). Save the file, restart all telephony applications (or simply reboot your system), and the original (current) rules will be used. Ontrack Systems Disk Manager ============================ If you use Ontrack Systems' Disk Manager product on a system that is booting from a FAT32 drive, it may result in a long pause at boot time and/or that the drive will be set to run in compatibility mode. With version 7.0x, you can Use the /L=0 option with Disk Manager to avoid this pause. If you are running an earlier version of Disk Manager, you should update to version 7.04 and use the /L=0 switch if you use FAT32. Syquest SQATDRV.SYS and SQDRIVER.SYS Drivers ============================================ The SQATDRV.SYS driver may cause systems containing FAT32 drives to hang during boot. Remove this driver from the CONFIG.SYS file if you are using FAT32 drives on a system with this device driver. Versions of these drivers that are compatible with FAT32 boot drives will be added to the Windows Driver Library (on the Windows CD and downloadable from the Internet) shortly. CardBus Controller Support ========================== Previous test releases of OSR-2 contained special work-around code to enable hardware development vendors to test and use pre-production PC Card controllers. This temporary code has been removed, so only production level hardware is now supported. Setting up English OSR2 over localized or Pan-Euro Windows 95 ============================================================= This is not supported. You can not update a non-English version of Windows 95 to English OSR-2. You must do a clean install of OSR2. This is the same as Windows 95 - you can convert FROM English to other Western European versions of Windows 95, but you cannot convert them to English. Using COMSPEC variables pointing to Network comand.com files ============================================================ If you are on a network and are currently mapping your compspec to remote network file servers, you may get "incorrect DOS version" errors (and an explanation of the version shipping with OSR-2 being an updated ver 7.1 etc.). You need to map the comspec to the local copy or to a compatible version on the network. Error using data acesss from Microsoft Office Standard for Windows 95 version 7.0 =========================================================== If you install Microsoft Office Standard for Windows 95 version 7.0 onto a machine running Windows 95 OSR-2, you will receive an error stating "Failure to load expression service" when using the Access ODBC driver from Office apps such as Excel or Word. To correct this problem you need to obtain the Microsoft Office for Windows 95 version 7.0b release from Microsoft Product Support. You can obtain a copy of Microsoft Office for Windows 95 version 7.0b by calling the Microsoft Order Desk at (800) 360-7561. If you are outside of the United States, contact the Microsoft Subsidiary in your area. To locate your subsidiary call the Microsoft International Sales Information Center at 206-936-8661. Online Services folder shows up as "Online~1" ============================================= If you have user profiles enabled when you install OSR-2, the Online Services folder will appear in the individual user's desktops as "Online~1". This is because the 1st boot where the short file name is converted to the long file name runs in the default user name desktop, not the individual desktops. Installing Win32 SDK Debug Components from MSDN CD ================================================== The MSDN components are from Build 950 and will not work properly with some of the OSR-2 components. Installing the SDK or DDK debug components will render your system unusable and you will have to reinstall OSR-2. Installing Internet Explorer 2.0 ================================ If you reinstall an older version of Internet Explorer 2.0, your Internet Connection Wizard will no longer function, and you will have to manually configure the IE properties and dialing connections. APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY ========================= The following applications may not install or function properly with OEM Service Release 2. Please promptly submit bug reports via MSREPORT if you discover any additional application incompatibilities introduced by OEM Service Release 2. Disk Utilities -------------- In general, disk utilities that perform low-level disk functions, such as defragmenters, disk repair tools and disk compression utilities, will not function properly on FAT32 drives. These utilities should continue to work properly on OEM Service Release 2 on FAT16 drives. The disk utilities included with Windows 95 (ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter) have already been modified and fully support FAT32. A version of DriveSpace 3 is included with OEM SR2 that handles drives up to 2 gig, but it will not compress on a FAT32 volume. Norton Utilities/Anti-Virus/Navigator for Windows 95 ---------------------------------------------------- Many of the utilities contained in these products will not function properly on FAT32 drives. In some cases, (e.g. Norton Disk Doctor), they will not function properly on FAT16 drives under OSR2. If you use the existing versions of these products on OSR2, in many cases warning dialogs will be displayed indicating that you should obtain an updated version of the program from Symantec. Please submit bugs if you find cases where these dialogs are being displayed when they shouldn't be, or if you encounter problems for which no warning dialog is displayed. Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 ------------------------------ If you install Microsoft Plus! on top of OEM Service Release 2, it will not install any DriveSpace 3 components. DriveSpace 3, including Compression Agent, will be enabled when you install Plus!. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you compressed your hard disk with Microsoft Plus! and then upgraded to OSR2, if you need to re-install Microsoft Plus!, do NOT use the Re-Install All option in Microsoft Plus! setup. If you need to re-install Microsoft Plus! and your disk is compressed, you must delete your Setup.STF file (which should be in your \Program Files\Plus!\Setup folder) and then re-run Plus! setup. SHARE.EXE no longer works in MS-DOS mode ---------------------------------------- In order to support FAT32, SHARE support has been disabled in the real-mode MS-DOS kernel (sharing support is still provided under Windows 95 however). If you use applications that require SHARE support in MS-DOS mode, please submit bug reports about them. Adobe Photoshop 3.0.4 --------------------- If you have more than 2GB of free space on your boot drive, Photoshop may be unable to run. You may be able to workaround this by setting a large *maximum* size for your swap file. Windows 95 Service Pack 1 -------------------------- The Windows 95 Service Pack #1 and its compontents will not properly install or run on OEM Service Release 2. All of the fixes in Service Pack 1 have been included in Service Release 2. Microsoft Exchange Server - Client ---------------------------------- If you are running the Microsoft Exchange Server Client (if your mail system is based on Microsoft Exchange), when you install or reinstall Windows 95 (either the original edition or the OEM service releases), and select MSN or Exchange, you will need to reinstall the Exchange and Schedule+ software from your corporate server distribution location. If you do not do this, the advanced Tools menus in Exchange, and the Schedule+ functionality will no longer work. Dunce 2.02 ---------- If you are using the shareware utility Dunce 2.02, it will not work correctly with OEM Service Release 2. Version 2.03 is now available which will work with OSR-2.