First Aid in the Office




Please help me with a Win 95 problem. I just recently bought First Aid 97 in the hope that it would fix all my Win 95 problems. After installation and rebooting, I now get an error message that I never had before (I do not have Norton Utilities or Fix-It installed):
"OSA caused an invalid page fault in module GDI32.DLL"
How do I get rid of it? Uninstalling First Aid did not help. Please help, as I do not want to reinstall Windows 95!
- Alexander Chew

Many of us dream of a piece of software that will fix all our Windows 95 problems, but in reality that's about as likely as world peace, or England winning the Ashes. First Aid 97 attempts to solve a range of Win 95 problems, and it succeeds to a degree. But the first version of the program has trouble coexisting with Office 97, FrontPage 97, and a number of other Microsoft applications.
When you start any of these apps, Windows may present you with one of those "...illegal operation..." dialogue boxes, followed by an "invalid page fault" message, like the one you describe. These problems should only occur if Build 400 of First Aid 97 is installed on your computer. If you're not sure which version you have, find the First Aid installation CD and use Explorer to search for the file setup.exe. If the time stamp for this file is 4:00AM, you have Build 400.
CyberMedia has released a fix for the Build 400 problem. You can download the update from http://www.cybermedia.com/products/firstaid/update97.html.
- Neville Clarkson
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Category: Win95
Issue: Jan 1998
Pages: 156

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