Re: Upgrade Win95A to Win95B ???

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From: Dave English
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:58

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In article <e7#gv1VtAHA.289@cpmsnbbsa09>, Johnson_JD
<Johnson_JD@email.msn.com> writes
>I need to upgrade a Windows 95A system to Windows 95B.  I believe an FTP
>application is not working because it is 95A.  I don't want to re-install
>Windows, as I have to do this on over 20 systems.
>
>Does anyone know where to get an upgrade CD to do this?  I have not been
>able to find one.

That is because there isn't one.  OSR2, as 95B is otherwise known, was
only ever intended for OEM installation.  The install CD for OSR2 is
quite careful to make sure that it only installs onto clean computers,
so it can never be an upgrade.  I think that at the time Microsoft
justified that this was because OSR2 had a tighter hardware
compatibility that Windows 95 Retail (95A) - which had to work on an
extensive range of hardware previously used for Windows 3.1 .

You could no doubt though upgrade to Windows 98, as that was a retail
upgrade.

Regards
-- 
Dave English,                                  
Client Software Development, Thus PLC,
Dorking Business Park, DORKING, Surrey, UK. RH4 1HJ
                                http://www.thus.net

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Subject: Re: Upgrade Win95A to Win95B ???
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