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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.