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Win 95 Explorer crashes on startup

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by workinprogress

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I've got a Win95 machine that boots fine, and once it's up to the login screen I can see shared disks, use it as a print server, etc..
However when I try to login and it starts Explorer, Explorer crashes with a general protection fault in GDI.exe.The fault is unrecoverable and I must reboot.
I tried replacing the video drivers but that didn't help. I also compared GDI.exe with the version in the cab file and they're identical (it's not corrupted).

Ideas?

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by cdobbin

boot it in safe mode and copy the cab files and setup files to the HDD, once this is done select run from the start menu and try to run the setup.exe from the directory you copied it to. See if that works.

by gigelul

In safe mode you don't have CD-ROM available. Check properties of the HDD and see what FAT is there(16 or 32). Your boot diskette must be created on a system with the same FAT to see the C drive. Also you can put on this diskette the driver for CD-ROM if you want to reinstall the OS or to copy from prompt Win95.kit on HDD(http://www.bootdisk.com/).

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