OLE32 Update

This fix is a later release to the OLE32 Update included in the Microsoft® Windows® 95 Service Pack 1. This update resolves the following issues under Windows 95:

• When running multiple 16-bit ODBC applications concurrently, shutting down the applications in a certain order may cause Windows 95 to crash. This update resolves this issue, allowing successful concurrent operation of multiple 16-bit ODBC applications without crashing.
• If links are established between OLE objects within a given directory structure on a network drive, then moved to a different drive with the same directory structure, the links are not maintained. If this same operation is performed on a local drive, the links are maintained. This update resolves this issue, allowing links to be maintained between OLE objects that are moved between network drives with identical data structures.
• Certain OLE applications, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0, store information in compound documents such that extraneous information left in unused areas of a hard disk may occasionally be found in unused regions of their document files. This information, while not accessible through normal means, may potentially compromise privacy. This update resolves this issue, preventing extraneous data left on the hard disk from deleted files from being stored in unused regions of OLE documents.

Users who run multiple 16-bit applications which use ODBC for data access should install this update, or have OLE-linked files on a networked drive, or who distribute electronic versions of their documents and are concerned with privacy.