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Re[2]: E/D Win95 Drive Problem Update



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From: SEAN P KANE at WADC022L
Date: 7/21/95 9:54AM
To: _jdvanas (SMTP.JDVANAS) at SSWGATE
Subject: Re[2]: E/D Win95 Drive Problem Update
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     Yep, that's the problem. However, one would think It would just ignore
     the cdrom if no MSCDEX was loaded and not freak out. However this may
     be to the fact that Windows95 assigns the cdrom a drive letter without
     using mscdex and this is throwing executor for a loop......I will load
     mscdex in my autoexec anyways to solve this......

     One note: Loading mscdex, mouse drivers , etc into your autoexec will
     slow down Win95 (although it shouldn't be noticable on a fast
     machine). It forces Win95 into a "Compatibility Paging Mode" that
     makes it work with unidentifable real-mode drivers, etc....

     Sean



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Subject: Re: E/D Win95 Drive Problem Update
Author:  _jdvanas (SMTP.JDVANAS) at SSWGATE
Date:    7/20/95 6:26 PM


>     Also, when I have a (non-mac) cdrom in my SCSI CDROM drive and start
>     up E/D 1.99o in Windows 95 Gold. Executor (-nosplash) runs but all I
>     get is a black screen and I never see the browser or anything appear.
>     So I have to kill that process and return to Windows 95. If I remove
>     the CDROM from my drive executor then boots fine, althought the local
>     drives still freeze it when I click on them.
>
>     Sean
>
>