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by gemailhiot

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computer is a P4 1.7 GHz machine with 256MB RAM.
hard Drive is 2.0GB drive, running Windows 95C version.
Symptoms:
When accessing certain web pages through fas internet connection, fatal error message showed up.
Closing the error window produced a Registry error message.
computer is running Internet Explorer.
In order to fix the registry problem, I uninstalled IE5 which was replaced with IE4. could not delete IE4, so proceeded withe win95 re-install. NO problem with re-install.
When computer restarts, message appears,
"While initializing IOS, file listed in System.ini missing or damaged.
Windows protection Error. windows must be restarted.
there is also a reference to
C:\windows\system\vmm32\nkterm.vxd
I cannot seem to be able to get past this problem.

Any suggestion?

I have re-installed windows 95 from within windows and from DOS - same results.

Thanks

gilles mailhiot

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by thechas

First, I am surprised that you got W95 to install on a P4 system to begin with.

There are many driver and other issues with W95 and the latest hardware.

VXD errors are usually related to how Windows deals with your RAM.

Start by going into BIOS settings, and slowing down the RAM as much as possible.

Likewise, set your AGP port to 1X.

I usually find that I need to wipe the .vxd files from the System32 folder and re-install Windows to get past a corrupt or missing VXD file.

I have run IE 5 and 5.5 with no problems on W95 systems.

Chas

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