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"S.J.Watson" <ms7sjw> wrote:

>What is the service pack called and where is the best place to get it from?  
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>P.S.   Will this stop it crashing on me as often?
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>
>Steve

Well, I do not know what the problem is with your computer but one
thing is certain.  The upgrade pack will not stop you crashing as most
of the fixes have been posted by Microsoft a long time ago and -apart
from an OLE upgrade- they concern network enhancements.

Now, I have installed Win95 in a wide variety of machines and it is
remarkably stable.  In computers where it did exhibit instability, I
determined that the major culprit was the BIOS.  Sad to say, BIOSs
although not PnP in 486 machines appear to be more robust than a lot
of BIOSs in P5 machines.  It is apparent that the art of writing a
good solid PnP + latest PCI standard BIOS has not been perfected.
Therefore, it is imperative to consult the hardware list that Win95
has been tested on and see that which BIOSs these systems used.

Now, if your motherboard+BIOS is not supported, I suggest that you go
to your BIOS's setup and disabled all "shadow" ROM or RAM.  You will
lose some speed, but Win95 will not bump against memory locations it
knows nothing about because it fails to communicate with the BIOS.

It may be that some of your instability is caused because of
"real-mode" drivers.  By now, most peripherals do have a "protected
mode driver" or a VxD.  Replace all your drivers with their win95
versions and stop using the autoexec.bat and config.sys files.  It is
very important that you download the latest Win95 driver for your
video card.

If your instability continues -and I have very little information
regarding your setup- you can do a clean installation of Win95 (which
means that you will have to re-install your applications). The Win95
upgrade does not require Win3.1 to be installed.  So you can format
your hard disk, just install DOS 6.22 and run the upgrade.  You will
be requested to insert the first Win3.1 floppy but that's all.

If you need any more specific info, send me e-mail.