need help with windows 95 os on older laptop
okay i was working on my laptop when the time changed to compensate for day light savings time and there was a window stating that the time change with an okay button. I clicked on the button and right after i did i got an an error from EXPLORER.EXE and now every time i try to boot up my laptop it will go to the user startup page where i can put in my password, it will accept and then i will immediately get an explorer error.
the explorer error:
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
and this is what it shows when i click on the 'Details>>' button:
EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module EXPLORER.EXE at 0167:00401f31.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=00401f31
EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000001 SS=016f ESP=0080feec
EBP=0080fef4
ECX=c14fabf0 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=1b97
EDX=0080fefc ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 50 ff 11 8b 45 08 50 8b 08 ff 51 08 8b
45
Stack dump:
00401ee0 0080fefc 0080ff34 00405cac 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000001 00404436 00000000
0059fc0c 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
and then i have to restart because nothing will show up on the desktop no icons, start menu, the bar at the bottom of the screen, nothing.
what does this mean and how can i fix it?
[1445 byte] By [
nasty_nich] at [2007-11-19 20:20:09]
# 1 Re: need help with windows 95 os on older laptop
Well, back in the old days of Windows 95 there weren't much options because backup and system recovery were still in the making.
As I see it you have a few options...
1. Reinstall the operating system over the old and not loose your files, just your configurations.
2. Use a boot disk and edit the system.ini file to set the shell to progman.exe instead of explorer.exe. This will give it the appearance of Windows 3.11.
3. Use a boot disk with a copy of explorer.exe from the same version of Windows 95 that you have and copy it to the Windows directory. Remember that their are 3 versions of Windows 95.
# 3 Re: need help with windows 95 os on older laptop
Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Just bad luck that it happened when you did something that seems unrelated to it. The OS doesn't care what time you enter.
Sounds nothing like hardware to me. Time changes has no effect to hardware unless you consider BIOS hardware.
Windows 95 was my first OS that gave me a desire to learn about computers. When a fault is found in an application it is a corrupted piece of software, not hardware.
# 5 Re: need help with windows 95 os on older laptop
Why would the date or time mess up anything in Windows, though? Windows doesn't care what time it is, unless the BIOS had W2K issues, but those are long gone.
Date and time can cause a fault because of the way that explorer would read files for dates and times of creation or modification. This is back in the Windows 95 days when I had to rebuild my computer a couple of times a year. Faults came easily to explorer.exe.
In fact, it might have nothing to do with the time changing it just might be a whole coincidence. That is why I am saying it sounds nothing like a hardware issue. Look at the output. The fault is caused within itself.
I might even be wrong. Maybe it is hardware. I just don't think so yet.
