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By Beverly Rosenbaum |
There have been reports of printing problems with Windows 95 and a variety of inkjet printers including the Hewlett Packard DeskJet 500, Hewlett Packard DeskJet 1600c, and Canon BJC 800. Commonly, the printer will start to print a page, and then appear to go haywire and spew out garbage characters.
According to Microsoft, this may be occurring because data is being sent too "aggressively" to your printer. Microsoft's John Braswel advises going to Control Panel, choosing the Device Manager tab, and changing the printer assignment from ECP to LPT. You can also copy the Lpt.vxd file from the \drivers\printers\lpt folder on your Windows 95 CD to the \windows\system folder in My Computer. Allow this file to overwrite your current copy, shut down your system, and then restart.
If you install Adobe Acrobat 2.1 and the version of Adobe Type Manager that comes with it on a Windows 3.x system that already has WordPerfect 6 for Windows installed, you may find you can no longer change printers from within WordPerfect. When you try, you may get an error like "updating printer information" followed by WIN2WRS caused a General Protection Fault in module Atm32.dll. The work-around: Edit your Atm.ini (in your Windows directory) and delete the four lines that start:
AdobeSanMM=
AdobeSerMM=
Save Atm.ini and restart Windows. You may also need to reinstall the Acrobat fonts through the Adobe Type Manager font list.
Win95 Memory Leak
If you open and close a lot of programs especially ones that use Windows sockets like Internet applications you may experience a slow loss of available system memory in Windows 95. After hours of use, this problem can in some cases degrade performance or cause the system to go down . The fix: upgrade your Kernel32 with the file dated April 1996, available for downloading from the Microsoft site,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/software/krnlupd.htm (Download: 290K, self-extracting Zip file, published: April 11, 1996)
This update resolves a memory leak which occurs when opening and closing a Socket using the Windows Sockets API. Without this update, running a Windows Sockets application over a long period of time, especially one which opens and closes a large number of sockets, will result a significant resource drain. This can cause the Windows swapfile to grow very large, overall deterioration of performance, and over time, possible system instability. This update allows users to better run such applications for long periods of time without loss of system performance and stability, and without requiring users to reboot their computers periodically to free system resources. Users who need to run Windows Sockets applications continuously over long periods of time, especially applications which use a large number of sockets, will benefit from this update.
1.Create a temporary folder (directory) on your hard disk.
2.Click the link "Kernel32 Update."
3.Save the file in the new folder.
4.In that folder, double-click krnlupd.exe to install the program files.
Quarterdeck QEMM 8.0
Quarterdeck has released fixes for the following bugs in QEMM 8.0: The "Exception 13..." errors, the long delays when using MagnaRAM with caching IDE controllers, and its incompatibility with AutoCAD. The patches are all available on Quarterdeck's Web site athttp://www.bugnet.com/), PC World Online (http://www.pcworld.com/), and software vendor sites.
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<P>The workaround: change the tray settings for the Windows driver in the
Windows Print Manager. Go to Control Panel/Printer/Properties/Setup and set the
Paper Source to the lower tray and mark Select for all jobs. Alternately, you
can select the WordPerfect PCL printer driver for the Lexmark Optra printer.
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<P><B>HotDog Pro Bug</B>
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<P>There is a bug in Sausage Software's popular HTML editor, HotDog Pro 2.071
and 2.08, which prevents it from loading relative URL references when
previewing a HTML page in Netscape Navigator or other WWW browsers. If you want
the files to preview, you must either enter the full URL ("<B><I>http://www</I></B>
etc."), or set your HotDog temp directory to the directory where the
relative references are stored.
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<P>So, if you keep your images in a subdirectory called "images" and
you reference it as <IMG SRC="images/bill.gif">, you'd set your
Temp directory as <B>/images</B>. To do this in HotDog, go to Tools, Options,
File Locations, Temporary Files.
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<P><B>Netscape 2.02</B>
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<P>If you get an error like "Wsock32.dll could not be opened." when
you try to launch Netscape Navigator 2.02 under Windows 95, you need to open
Windows Explorer and go to the Windows\System folder and rename your
Wsock32.dll file to something like Wsock32.old. Now in Explorer go to Tools,
Find, and search for <I>Wsock32.*</I> on your hard disk. This will reveal
several files. Find one that is 42K (often named Wsock32.w95), copy it to your
Windows\System folder, and rename it Wsock32.dll. After exiting Windows and
restarting your system, you should be able to launch Netscape.
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<P><B>WordPerfect Bug 1</B>
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<P>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.
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<P>How do you fix it? Enlarge with Windows 95's zoom feature as follows:
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<P>1. Go into Control Panel. Double-click the Display icon.
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<P>2. Select the Settings tab. Click the Custom button, and adjust the slider
to choose your magnification.
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<P><B>WordPerfect Bug 2
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<P>From the "<I>This is a feature, not a bug</I>" department: There
is a practical conflict between Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 and WordPerfect
for Windows 7 that results from the fact that both programs make use of the
Windows\Favorites folder. Internet Explorer uses it to save Web sites
(equivalent to Netscape bookmarks), while WordPerfect uses it in place of the
WP6.x QuickList, a list of directories (folders) that are frequently accessed.
The problem is that even on a fast Pentium it can take several seconds to
access WordPerfect's File Open menu if you have stored a lot of Internet
Explorer Favorites there. Apparently the only solution is to temporarily empty
the Favorite Places folder, which makes WordPerfect menu access instantaneous,
as it should be (and is in every other program). This problem does not occur in
Microsoft Word for Windows 7.
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