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By Beverly Rosenbaum |
Berkeley Systems Bugs
Berkeley Systems After Dark 1.0 for DOS will not run correctly under Windows 95. It will not activate after the set amount of time or by using the hotkey. Also once it is installed, all other file operations will slow down. The Windows version of this program runs fine.
Running Berkeley Systems' After Dark 2.0 with Windows 95, you may see some odd behavior: When you install the After Dark screen saver, an After Dark button may be created on the taskbar; however, clicking this button with the left mouse button does not open the After Dark control panel. Also, a blank button may appear on the taskbar when the After Dark screen saver is active. Or a button labeled "Password" appears on the taskbar when the Password dialog box appears. According to Berkeley Systems Technical Support, After Dark version 2.0 for Windows and its add-on components based on the After Dark 2.0 engine are not fully compatible with Windows 95. The work-around: if you click the After Dark button using the right (secondary) mouse button, the Control menu appears. The After Dark control panel is one of the selections. You can also click the After Dark icon on the desktop, rather than the button on the taskbar, to open the After Dark control panel.
In Berkeley Systems' After Dark 3.0 for Windows, you may get errors when running Bad Dog if Windows 95 is an upgrade from Windows 3.x. If you find that Berkeley Systems' popular After Dark screen saver interrupts your game sessions even when it is turned off, go into the Advanced settings for the screen saver and disable "allow screen saver in DOS sessions." According to Microsoft, the error you get during Berkeley Systems Looney Tunes Animated Screen Saver can be safely ignored, and the program will still work fine. On some computers, Berkeley Systems' Simpson's Screen Saver refuses to mute its sound on four modules. For some configurations, the taskbar loses its Always On Top property in Berkeley System's Simpson's Screen Saver. To use the After Dark control panel on Berkeley Systems' Star Trek: When is the Screen Saver minimized, right-click the icon in the taskbar and then select Control Panel from the popup menu.
Pegasus Mail
If you run Pegasus Mail 2.3 under Windows 95 and you get a GPF in NWCALLS.DLL, the problem (according to Pegasus mail support) is that "there is a bug in Windows 95's Netware emulation such that it reports a server connection even when there is none." The workaround: Force Pegasus to start in stand-alone mode by adding the switch -A to the command line that launches Pegasus, as in: C:\PEG\WINPMAIL.EXE -A.
New version available: Pegasus Mail for WIN32, V. 2.42 at ftp://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/win95/internet/w32-242.exe (1,341k). Pegasus Mail is free software, provided as a service to the broad Internet Community. It is not in the public domain and is fully supported.
After the software is installed, you will have a Program Manager group called "Pegasus Mail for Win32", containing the Pegasus Mail application, a shortcut to the Pegasus Mail online help file, and a file called "Pegasus Mail Online Guide." Please read this guide before attempting to run the program. Released: August 1996.
WordPerfect Bug
In WordPerfect for Windows 7, if you change the Windows 95 default menu font size from 8 to 10 points, it results in the Find and Replace dialog box being too small to display all the buttons on the right side at 800x600 video resolution. A frustrated user reported being able to see the Replace All button, but the next button down was cut off above the label.
How do you fix it? Enlarge with Windows 95's zoom feature as follows:
1. Go into Control Panel. Double-click the Display icon.
2. Select the Settings tab. Click the Custom button, and adjust the slider to choose your magnification.
Microsoft Publisher
If you install Microsoft Publisher 2.0a while running Windows 95, you may encounter the error message: Microsoft test driver (ds) (error) bindtime error: `FDODIALOGEXT' not found in specified library.
The work-around: Move the following files from your Windows\System folder to a folder that is not on your MS-DOS path:
Mscomstf.dll
Mscpydis.dll
Mscuistf.dll
Msdetstf.dll
Msinsstr.dll
Msshlstf.dll
Msuilstf.dll
Mscpydis.inc
Msdetect.inc
Now run Publisher Setup again.
The following bugs are made available through PCWorld Online (http://www.pcworld.com/) and software vendor sites.
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