15th October 1996
"Chances are that some of the device drivers you have in your CONFIG.SYS file are part of Win95's Plug-n-Play device library (CD-ROMs are probably the most common). To check and see if Win95 has a driver, clear out the contents of your CONFIG.SYS file by putting a REM in front of every line. Also, put a REM in front of TSR drivers in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Remember to make a backup of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS file when you do this. Next, restart your computer so the drivers are cleared from memory. Load up Windows 95 and check the device manager to see if it got all of the devices that you removed from CONFIG.SYS. The ones that it didn't find, remove the REM from the first part of the line. Also, check with your manufacturer to see if they have a new or updated 32-bit driver. Hopefully, by replacing the 16-bit drivers with the 32-bit drivers, you will have a lot fewer crashes and a faster access speed to all of your devices."