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Windows 95
OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2)
Beta 3
June 21, 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.
- 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.
- For Beta 2, you will see conflicts with APIX.VXD and
with MSVCRT40.DLL. Please be sure to say NO to keeping
the "newer" one on your hard disk, the one OSR-2 is
installing is the correct version.
- For Beta 1, there is a longer list of known file conflicts
in the Beta User's Guide.
- If you are using the Adaptec EZ SCSI drivers, you may need to remove
these from your config.sys before you can run setup.
- If you are using EZ-SCSI or a SCSI tape backup program, you should
reinstall it after installing OSR2 RC, even if you did not remove
it for setup.
- 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.
- 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 IF YOU ARE UPGRADING OVER BETA 1: If you ran the
FAT32 converter contained on the beta 1 CD (not the one sent out
on diskette) and if you have multiple partitions on your hard
disk, then Setup may refuse to install to one or more of your
drives. You can workaround this by converting the drive you wish
to install to to FAT32 using the CVT.EXE program contained in the
\BetaOnly folder on your BETA 2 CD.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT COMPRESSION AND FAT32: This version of OSR2
will not mount DriveSpace Compressed Volume Files (CVFs) from
FAT32 host drives. If you have a CVF on a FAT32 drive, you should
move it to a FAT16 partition or copy all the data out of the CVT
before installing Beta 2.
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.
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
===============
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
==========================
- Remember, you will not need a valid credit card for signup.
However, the card type (MasterCard, Visa, etc.) must match to
a valid 4-digit card prefix (e.g. Visa, 4226 0000 0000 0000
is valid). Bank name and cardholder name may be any text.
- All Internet accounts created under this program will no
longer be valid after the beta program is completed.
- It is not possible to use the account that you create via ICW
during the beta period to access the MSN service.
- The focus of ICW is to support dial-up access, so a modem is
required if the "Auto" path is chosen through the wizard.
Sorry, no ISDN support during the beta.
- At this time, the ICW server is not fully populated with ISPs
(only MSN is available).
- ICW is running against a test data-center that may not always
be completely operational. If you don't get through on the
first call, please redial a few times. Once this product ships,
the data center will be moved into production and provide
round-the-clock, uninterrupted operation. Your patience is
appreciated during this beta period.
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.
Some OpenGL Screen Savers prevent Monitor Power Down
====================================================
When one of the following three OpenGL Screen Savers is running,
the Monitor will not power down automatically.
- 3D Flowers
- 3D Objects
- 3D Text
You should not use these screen savers if you want your monitor
to power off automatically.
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.
Help Find Tab broken
====================
If you do a clean install you may find that the Help
Find tab is broken. This will be fixed in the next release.
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.
Internet Explorer 3 Bugs
========================
This build of IE3 will put %20 instead of spaces for the title
bar name of a web site. These are harmless. If you save a site
as a favorite, this name with %20 is used. You can rename it
or just remove the spaces, the link will still work fine.
This build of IE3 may crash frequently.
We hope to have an updated build posted on the FTP and Newsgroup site
within the next two weeks that is significantly more stable.
Citrix Client
=============
The Citrix Client, which enables applications to run on
remote NT servers, does not work with this specific build
of Internet Explorer 3 due to a bug in one of the internet
components. This will be fixed before the next release.
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. DriveSpace 3 is included with OEM SR2, and
it has been modified to detect FAT32 drives, but it will not
compress them.
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, is now included with OEM Service
Release 2.
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. Contact Vector
Development (email vecdev@cjnetworks.com) to request a beta
copy of a version that is compatible with OSR2.