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by blackcurrant

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Hi

One of the machines on my network is a W95b with 64MB RAM. Three weeks ago I repartitioned, reformatted and reinstalled all software - Office 2K, wordPerfect, DesignCad, Adobe PhotoShop. Today, suddenly, the user was not able to use the mouse to drag and drop folders from within explorer. He can't use normal drag nor rightclick and drag. He can move and copy using the toolbar icons. Can anyone help...

Thanks

Mark

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by blackcurrant

Another strange thing just occurred... the tooltips for the icons in the WordPerfect Open dialogue box were displaying incorrectly - the delete icon had a tooltip that said it was the open command etc.. This machine is about four years old, and though occassionally grumpy, it normally performs well.

by dklippert

Some pretty heavy apps for such an ancient OS. W98SE would be a better choice.
Here's an MS article. If you can find it use the update, otherwise re-extract compobj.dll and ole*.dll to the \windows\system directory and then reboot.

OLE Update for Windows 95
Q139432

Compobj.dll Windows\System 31,120 01/25/96 2.20.40.44

Ole32.dll Windows\System 558,704 01/25/96 2.10.35.38

Olethk32.dll Windows\System 79,424 01/25/96 2.10.35.38

by blackcurrant

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I rejected your answer because the information you gave me relates only to the first release of W95. The machine in question runs version 2 or b. Sorry I did not make this clear in my question.

by dklippert

Does this help?
(Type the Q number into the ?For solutions containing...? box at support.microsoft.com)

Reinstalling Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0
Q174549
The problem is often caused by re-installing Windows 95 on a system that had Internet Explorer 4 or 5 installed on it without first uninstalling Internet Explorer.

To fix this, you need to apply the OLE update.

Compobj.dll
Ole32.dll
Olethk32.dll

If you have Win95B, extract the OLE files from the Win95 CD, using these commands:

extract /a /e /l C:\Windows\System D:\Win95\Win95_02.cab ole*.dll
extract /a /e /l C:\Windows\System D:\Win95\Win95_02.cab compobj.dll

When prompted, tell it to overwrite existing files. If you get an error about the file being in use, extract them to a temp directory instead, reboot to DOS only and copy them to C:\Windows\System at the full DOS prompt.

by blackcurrant

Thanks for trying again. As I stated, the installation of Windows 95b was done after repartitioning and reformatting, so although Windows recognised the old windows folder, it would have overwritten any files. What I also forgot to say was that I updated the default Internet explorer with I.E. 5.5. Since I submitted the question neither of the problems I described have reoccurred. I have no idea what was happening.

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