Customer's machine has Sigma WinSound 16 (ProAudioSpec compat) that stopped working after reinstalling Win95, and the drivers won't reinstall because some Windows Multimedia Extensions are missing, according to error messages. What a pain. Dunno why the reinstall of Win95 didn't pick up all the previously in use drivers and replicate the configuration accurately. Any ideas? I hafta hack some more on this but this is a new one to me. How many people are using MS Internet Explorer 3.01 for Win95? I have run into the Netscape 2.0 and 3.0 dirty tricks on MSIE, throwing up if home.microsoft.com is used and refusing to respond properly to Back. It will be interesting to see what users are posting here.

I'm using IE 3.0 and haven't noticed this. How does this work?

I read a few blips on this in some trade mags, then experienced it. Set up one of my clients (customers) on the net, using the same ISP I use. Loaded Netscape 2.0 for him, on his Compaq Presario DX4/100 w/16 M, decent 14.4 modem. Went to the MS home page, then to software downloads and downloaded IE301.exe for Win95. Then installed it. Darn thing didn't want to load up; complained it lacked memory. Not likely, with the 16 and nothing else running. Fell back on Netscape 2.0, which put up screens whini g about not being the default browser, but condescended to load. Went to MS home page and started following links looking for patches, FAQs, online support or whatever so as to avoid MS phone support (ans at their prices we should get either our personal psychic or very good phone sex). Tried to navigate in reverse, but I tell you, the old propellers wouldn't reverse. As in the big old boat's screws wouldn't do it! (Using Nevigator's analogy...) Let's call it 'gator for short, and realie that it devours I 's "Back" pages. The story has a happy ending in that I tinkered my client's memory and got it all showing and got IE running fine as his regular browser, and old NN can just lurk in its little program group for now in case we ever have to use it again just long enough to download IE! Still wrestling with the Sigma sound card and the missing mm extensions, which have disappeared into a black hole I guess. A new client called me in to see about upgrading their only computer ever. Thought it might be getting a tad obsolete. This is a law firm. It's a PC-compatible, dual floppies (5.25, 360K) with 640K RAM. NOT a PC-XT compat, you understand: no hard drive. Giant typewriter sort of keyboard/printer with a Diablo-type printing mechanism. DOS 3.1, I think, on the boot disk; a primitive WP on the other disk. Imagine, this word processor program fits on a 360K disk! These folks are caught in a time warp. I s ecked a system and a printer for them . But they assured me they would never need a CD-ROM, becuse they don't need to look up anything except in the law books and law library in the Court House; nor would they need any back-up other than floppies, nor were they worried about power interruptions. At least I talked them into getting a notebook too (probably a refurb) which they can laplink to the new system so as to synchronize their files... I'll give 'em a surge, just so I can sleep nights. Every so often you find some folks who are like, well, the population of an island almost untouched by civiliztion, ingenuous, almost hurt to find that there are such things as system crashes and possible loss of data, requiring certain safeguards. Better not trust this new-fangled tech; rely on those massive file cabinets stuffed with paper. They won't crash (except maybe through the floor into the pharmacy below). The terminology is strange to them. One of them recalled that when she was in law school there were a lot of big law firms getting "computerized." So she wondered, "Do you think we'd be better off getting a mainframe?" There was my chance to compromise and recommend an AS400, right? Happen to have a client wanting to get rid of one. But shoot, I didn't think of it in time. I had this image of a Cray falling through the floor and flattening the pharmacist AND the POS we put in for him last year...

It this something from the past?

The NetNav misbehavior is very recent, but involved 2.0. The ancient machine is a very recent consulting adventure I found amazing. Too bad I don't have an adventure column in a trade mag, a la Secret Shopper-- the adventures of a tech consultant.

Hello. A small problem. I've win95 and Plus and the animated cursor stopped working right about the time I changed my video card to #9 (something) 128. Animated cursors are simply unanimated. No biggie, but there it is. Any clues?

Hmm, I realize some confusions deserve clarifications: The card is Number Nine Corporation Imagine 128 with 8k. A nice card. No clue if it has anything to do with cursor problems. Uninstall of vid card does nothing to cursor problem. Reinstall of win95 and/or Plus does not cure lack of cursor animation.

Does anyone know about setting up a swap file in 95? I've heard the ideal size is about 2 1/2 times the amount of memory that you have, for example, if you have 32mb memory then set up a 80mb swap file. I know that Microsoft cautions against this, but I blame the swap file on the constant disk chugging that you hear on some machines.

Hello. I originally put this up on the "Introduce yourself" site, but thought that maybe someone here might be able to help me with this. I was helping a friend with their DUN installation on a new (about 2 months old) Windows 95 machine. Everything works well except that the Connect box comes up every time we start up the machine. How do you stop this from happening? I have taken everything out of the "Startup" directory except the Lotus SmartSuite toolbar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.