[RESOLVED] I can't drag . . .

[RP8]

Hey, it's me again.

Here's the scoop:

Old Pentium 75 machine / owners ruined the motherboard. They bought a Celeron 333, AOpen AX6B mainboard, 1 64 meg DIMM, and powersupply. I moved out of there old system a USR 56K modem, floppy driver, hard drive, CD drive, video card, sound card and then brought the new system up with the old parts. After a day of working on it I think I have it done (EVEN THE USB), but one thing . . . I can't click on and icon and drag it anywhere. AutoArrange is unchecked so it's not that. It will not even attempt to drag it. I think it is something to do with the Bus Master drive HD controller in the Device Manager, but I could be wrong. And every thing in the Device Manager is okay, nothing conflicting. Also, one last thing - I can drag in SafeMode.

Come on Darren, help me out here!!!!


USB sucks

[stevet]

Re-installing Win95 on a computer which already had Internet Explorer 4.0 installed will cause this to happen. I learned this the hard way and spent many hours troubleshooting the problem before I found the answer. Now, if I have to re-install Win95, I make sure to uninstall IE4 first. Win95 setup installs IE 2.0 or 3.0 and overwrites some important IE 4.0 files. The only way to fix this is to go to the Microsoft support site and search for an article on how to manually uninstall IE4. You will have to rename several files in the windows\system directory, extract a couple of files from the .cab's, and then re-install Win95 again.

I hope this helps,

Steve

[RP8]

Thanks Steve... I came to work Monday morning and Saturn had sent me a email with a .bat file attached. The .bat went through all those steps automatically. Pretty nice I thought, big time saver.

Now, this will also happen if IE5 is installed and you reinstall Win95 OSR2 over the top of itself??? I'm sure it will have the same results right...

[stevet]

I'm glad things worked out for you. If you don't mind (and if you could do it without bending any copyright laws) I would like to see the .bat file that they sent you. I made a .bat file for my own use, but it isn't foolproof and I wouldn't want to have anyone else try it on their computer unless they knew what they were doing.

As for IE5, I haven't seen yet what happens if you install Win95 (or Win98) on top of a machine with IE5 already installed. I would be interested to know, tho.

Steve

[RP8]

Guess what, I beleive it happens with IE5 also... I had a machine with OSR2 in the cabs dir. Customer installed IE4 after he bought it, then a little later IE5 in the past 2 weeks. Now I ran setup.exe in the cabs dir, and whoops - no dragging.

I'll try to get that bat to you, I'm going to kinda modify it for fun. Thanks!