AndJ

If someone could give an example with screenshots how to patch a program to work in win9x with a hex editor, I would be very interested. Many free programs seem to fail due to their license manager, which is a sad failure for free programs. If it can be done manually, it should be easy to make a program that does the pathes. Furthermore, if a newer version of a dll is needed, I would like to rename that dll and patch the program to call the renamed dll, rather than replacing the original windows dll. Maybe one could even preload that dll in a VBscript so that it does not have to be in the windows directory. Today, this is needed for Win9x, but some day for winXP too I presume. Best regards, Anders

Ludwig wrote: Shouldn't we also mention that we can edit files or pointers that is within programs so they can work with 9x, Windows 3.1, 2.1, 1.0? Is there any good info about how to do this? A special program for doing it would be nice. Maybe one could even make a wrapper that cathes missing dll-links and redirects the call to a dll in the program directory according to a lookup table that can be manually edited.

OK, I found Win95 updates are still available. A good site is http://erpman1.tripod.com/win95upd.html My thanks to ERPMan!

I too have thought about this! For instance, If I change some network setting, w95 throw a lot of questions if I want to keep upgraded stuff, and I might click the wrong button. Upgrading the windows cab files would be nice.

Hello! I just found this (still active!) w95 forum! W95 works very well for me. I think the most critical problem with w95 on new machines is the shutdown bug, which does not allow hard disk to complete. Disabling Windows disk cache and setting a low BIOS HD block move works well, but a more elegant way is a small driver that inserts 2 sec delay at power off. Works very well for me! http://members.driverguide.com/driver/deta...riverid=1046722 I was hoping that Micro$oft might release W95 for personal use rather than abandon it completely. However, as someone mentioned, all win95 updates are gone! If the latest upgrades gets lost, the usefulness of w95 will be much reduced. Is it still available somewhere? I happen to have the latest w95update page saved, and many of the updates. Would it be of interest (and legal?) to mirror the old w95update site? But some of my updates are swedish versions. Regards, Anders