Dusted off an old Dell laptop with Win95 a couple of weeks ago. Put in a patch or 
two, tried to update IE to IE5, etc.  Somehow, I broke something. Tried to go back 
to IE4.  No doubt a mistake.

Now, I get an error when opening IE4:  the infamous "This program has performed an 
illegal operation and will be shut down."  Clicking on Details tells me "IEXPLORE 
caused an exception 6d007fH in module KERNEL32.dll at 0137:bff9a3c0."

I then installed Firefox.  Similar type of crash:  "FIREFOX caused an invalid page 
fault in module KERNEL32.dll at 0137:bff7aaca."

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I need to do?  Thanks.

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It could be something wrong with both of your browsers reading page scripts. Or it could be the Kernel32.dll driver. Try one more web browser e.g. Opera or Netscape Navigator, and if that doesn't work, try getting a new Kernel32.dll. I.E. off another computer. (keep a backup of your original just in case). Windows will probably delete most of the information and start creating its own inside the driver, if that works, you know it was the kernel32.dll

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Hi Sixeye:

If nothing else works, you can always remove ALL
versions of Internet Explorer with IEradicator:
http://www.litepc.com/download.html

Then, you can install whichever version of
IE you like.  Win95 will run up to IE 5.5.
Complete IE versions available here:
http://browsers.evolt.org/?

Jerry

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Thanks Aidan,

It seems awfully unlikely to me that both IE and Firefox are having the same paging 
problem. Therefore, I think it must be Kernel32.dll having the problem, based on 
what you have suggested.  The laptop is the only computer I have access to with Win95 
on it.  I assume that I cannot use Kernel32.dll from a different version of Windows, 
correct?







On Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:13 am, Aidan Jenkins wrote:

>It could be something wrong with both of your browsers reading page scripts. Or 
it 

>could be the Kernel32.dll driver. Try one more web browser e.g. Opera or Netscape 

>Navigator, and if that doesn't work, try getting a new Kernel32.dll. I.E. off another 

>computer. (keep a backup of your original just in case).

>Windows will probably delete most of the information and start creating its own 
inside 

>the driver, if that works, you know it was the kernel32.dll 

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Thanks very much, Jerry. Since Firefox is having virtually the same problem, it seems 
unlikely to me that IE is the problem. Don't you agree?

Good to know though that Win95 is limited to IE5.5.  I do seem to remember reading 
that a long time ago now that you mention it. 







On Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:58 am, Jerry wrote:

>Hi Sixeye:

>

>If nothing else works, you can always remove ALL

>versions of Internet Explorer with IEradicator:

>http://www.litepc.com/download.html

>

>Then, you can install whichever version of

>IE you like.  Win95 will run up to IE 5.5.

>Complete IE versions available here:

>http://browsers.evolt.org/?

>

>Jerry 

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Just as a test, you might try some of the other 
browsers that don't rely on any IE components:

The most basic is Off-By-One.  It doesn't even 
have to be "installed."  Just run the EXE file.
It even runs from a floppy:
http://offbyone.com/offbyone/

And there's OPERA:
http://www.opera.com/download/

Jerry

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Thanks, that browser does work!  That will get me by but if anyone has any suggestions 
on how to repair Win95 or IE, whichever is my problem...

Another clue:
I tried to install free AVG (anti-virus). During the install, it errors out with 
"The AVBSETUP.EXE file is linked to missing export OLE32.DLL:CoGetObject". It also 
says in another window "avgsetup.exe         A device attached to the system is not 
functioning."







On Monday, December 3, 2007 at 9:56 pm, Jerry wrote:

>Just as a test, you might try some of the other 

>browsers that don't rely on any IE components:

>

>The most basic is Off-By-One.  It doesn't even 

>have to be "installed."  Just run the EXE file.

>It even runs from a floppy:

>http://offbyone.com/offbyone/

>

>And there's OPERA:

>http://www.opera.com/download/

>

>Jerry

>
 

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Sorry, that was supposed to say AVGSETUP not AVBSETUP.






On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 12:43 pm, Sixeye wrote:

>Thanks, that browser does work!  That will get me by but if anyone has any suggestions 

>on how to repair Win95 or IE, whichever is my problem...

>

>Another clue:

>I tried to install free AVG (anti-virus). During the install, it errors out with 

>"The AVBSETUP.EXE file is linked to missing export OLE32.DLL:CoGetObject". It also 

>says in another window "avgsetup.exe         A device attached to the system is 
not 

>functioning."

>

>

> 

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A long time ago, I remember trying AVG Anti-Virus
on my Win95.  I recall that I couldn't get it to install
properly unless I had previously installed the "DCOM95"
upgrade from Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d7a4de78-81a9-4db7-beb6-84ff99342172&displaylang=en

Jerry

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Thanks, DCOM95 fixed IE for me, but not AVG. I got a new error.  It also did not 
fix Firefox.  The error with AVG during install is:  "Dialog with id "WinsockDlg" 
was not found in the set up."  It gets a whole lot further into the install before 
reaching this error.  Tried re-installing Firefox but no go. Not sure what to do 
next. I'd really like to get AVG installed. Firefox would be a nice-to-have. 








On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 2:44 pm, Jerry wrote:

>A long time ago, I remember trying AVG Anti-Virus

>on my Win95.  I recall that I couldn't get it to install

>properly unless I had previously installed the "DCOM95"

>upgrade from Microsoft.

>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d7a4de78-81a9-4db7-beb6-84ff99342172&displaylang=en

>

>Jerry 

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Winsock, eh?

Have you ever installed the Winsock2 upgrade on this
computer?

It used to be a free download from Microsoft, but
I see they've taken it down.  I found another source
here:
http://ftp.unb.br/pub/windows/win95/

It's got the same size and MD5 hash as the original 
I got from the old Microsoft page, so I'm sure it's good.

Jerry

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Late addition:

Microsoft still has Winsock2 available for download --
they just moved the page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194347

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So you never had DCOM95 installed? I'm surprised Firefox even ran for a while without it, it shouldn't even open. If you're trying to use Firefox 2, know that it doesn't work properly on Windows 95. Firefox 1.5 will, though, as will the latest SeaMonkey (of which 1.1.x is based on the same code as Firefox 2).

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No, Firefox never ran for me. I see now that the problem was I had installed v2. 
 Uninstalled that and installed v1.5 and voila!  Thanks!

Tabbed browsing was the nice-to-have on Win95!






On Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 6:29 am, Benoit wrote:

>So you never had DCOM95 installed? I'm surprised Firefox even ran for a while without 

>it, it shouldn't even open. If you're trying to use Firefox 2, know that it doesn't 

>work properly on Windows 95. Firefox 1.5 will, though, as will the latest SeaMonkey 

>(of which 1.1.x is based on the same code as Firefox 2). 

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Okay but I do not have the folder referred to nor the bat file referred to in that 
article. What now?







On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 8:21 pm, Jerry wrote:

>Late addition:

>

>Microsoft still has Winsock2 available for download --

>they just moved the page:

>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194347 

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Never mind, that part of the article was if Winsock 2 was already installed.  Doh.

I went ahead and installed it and all is well now. AVG now works.

Looks like I am good now. Next up is to find a wireless card that will work on Win95.







On Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 6:03 pm, Sixeye wrote:

>Okay but I do not have the folder referred to nor the bat file referred to in that 

>article. What now?

>

>

> 

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Take a look at this thread for wireless info:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/t1154405487

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I cannot install AVG 7.5 because WinsockDlg is not in the setup.


On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 6:31 pm, Sixeye wrote:
>Thanks, DCOM95 fixed IE for me, but not AVG. I got a new error. It also did not
>fix Firefox. The error with AVG during install is: "Dialog with id "WinsockDlg"
>was not found in the set up." It gets a whole lot >next. I'd really like to get AVG installed. Firefox would be a nice-to-have.
>
>
>
>

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