A few years ago, Novell Client32 was installed on my Win95 PC as part of a software package that allowed access to a former employer's LAN via the internet. I finally got around to running the uninstall program that they gave me. (I know, I shouldn't have waited so long). It seemed to run fine until the cryptic "Uninstall not successful" message at the end. No other info was provided. Since then, I get the following blue-screen message at boot-up: "Invalid VxD dynamic link call from VREDIR(01) + 00005B12 to device '0487', service 4. Your Windows configuration is invalid...If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable..." It does, in fact become unstable. When I go to "My Computer" and select "File/Properties" for drive C, I get a GPF. And when I ask to run defrag for "all hard drives" (i.e. C and D), C defrags just fine but then D always hangs when 10% completed. Is there any way to fix this Windows configuration problem short of going through the agony of a complete reinstall? Thanks in advance. - Tim Hall

On W95, Client32 upgrades your IP stack to winsock2 and also replaces the redirector (vredir.dll). You can try: Getting your hands on W95UNC.exe - Novell's own uninstall utility for Client32. (Hint - try searching for it www.google.com) If w95unc fails to cure your problems, uninstall ipx and tcp/ip (CtrlPanel, Network, Config -- Remove) and reinstall tcp/ip, reconfigure IP address etc. Download the winsock2 update for 95 from Micro$soft and run it to reinstall/upgrade your IP stack. (It would be a good idea to do this anyway - WSock2 is much better than 1) It might also be worthwile (as a last resort) to try and physically remove the networking device from the PC, be it a modem, NIC or whatever, rebooting twice after deleting it in device manager, reinstalling it and letting windoze pick up the device automagically. Doing this will ensure that all protocol bindings and preferences for the device, which might still be pointing to the now non-existent dll's, are removed. Last resort.