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Received: from gk_west.usps.gov (gk-west.usps.gov [198.120.14.10]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA11394 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:01:45 -0700 Received: by gk_west.usps.gov (5.65/fma-120691); id AA14407; Thu, 20 Jul 95 12:01:39 -0700 Received: from EMAIL.USPS.GOV by RALSSW01.USPS.GOV (Soft*Switch Central V4380P7A) id 663701140095201FRANC006L; 20 Jul 1995 14:01:14 GMT Message-Id: <RANC006L.SKANE.663701140095201FRANC006L@USPS.GOV> Date: 20 Jul 1995 14:01:14 GMT Reply-To: <SKANE@EMAIL.USPS.GOV> From: "SEAN KANE" <SKANE@EMAIL.USPS.GOV> Subject: E/D Win95 Hack to TEMP FIX Drive problem. To: executor@nacm.com Comment: MEMO 07/18/94 14:14:00 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Ok, here goes all. As pointed out by the person who first mentioned this problem, The drive problem does not show up when Windows 95 is botted into MS-DOS mode. So it is obviously surronding a change in Windows95 dealing with disk access, etc.My guess would be it had something to do with Executor trying to make direct disk access, which is a no-no in Win95. Anyways, here is the best work around. Create an icon on your desktop for executor. Then edit it's properties (right mouse button on icon then select properties). Click on the Program Tab in properties. add whatever Executor command line switches you want. Then Click on the box that says "close on exit" (this will automatically exit MSDOS when executor is done). Hit the "Advanced" Button next. In this area you want to click on the "MS-DOS Mode" button and then the "use current MS-DOS configuration" button". I have all the other button un-checked. Now, the trick to this is you need to put a DOS mouse driver in your standard autoexec.bat or Executor won't run. Reboot and now when you click on the icon Windows will exit to DOS (without rebooting), run executor, and then when you exit it will start Windows 95 again (without rebooting). If you don't load the mouse driver and try to use "specify a new MS-DOS configuration" in the "Advanced" section to load the mouse driver, it will work, but the machine will reboot before running Executor each time (to load the new MSDOS config you specified) and reboot and again when you exit Executor (to reload the old MSDOS config for WIN95)....... Hope this helps...... Sean skane@email.usps.gov P.S. since you are in DOS you would also need to load mscdex, etc. for your cdrom to be visable......