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Recently acquired an AMD machine;installed Win 95 OSR2 w/ relevant patches to get it up to speed (am able to list any/all if anyone who responds thinks that any may be relevant).
Installed Internet Explorer 5.5 and THEN (this was the mistake) used the method Lightspeed described on his site to install Active Desktop w/o installing IE4 SP2.
I downloaded Ie4shl95.cab;extracted it to a folder (Active Desktop Update);rightclicked on Ie4shell.inf to install it;rebooted;repaired Internet Explorer through Control Panel;rebooted again.
At which point, whenever I try to access a folder, there's a broken link icon in the upper left hand corner of the window and an error message which says "An error has occurred in the script on this page.
Line : 269
Char : 4
Error : Object doesn't support this property or method.
Code : 0
URL : file://C:\WINDOWS\web\folder.httI've tried downloading other versions of Ie4shl95.cab and reproducing this procedure with exactly the same results.
Tried extracting it from the full downloaded version of Internet Explorer 4 SP2;with the same results. Tried extracting folder.htt from the cab file and extracting it to C:WINDOWS\web;with exactly the same results.
I hope that someone may be able to help me. I've tried Googling this issue w/o much luck.Thanks.
Rich Dennis
You could try removing IE with IEradicator and trying again.
http://www.98lite.net/ieradicator.html
I don't think Microsoft uses scripts in their software, so the script error is probably caused by something you got from the Lightspeed site.
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"probably caused by something you got from the Lightspeed site"
I don't think so, they're just instructions, and that site is a well known (around here anyways) Windows resource
I'm familiar - but have never tried them.
I have installed the update to Win95 machines the 'traditional' way - uninstalled IE55, installed IE401 then upgraded back to 5.5 without issue.
A bit of a rigmarole, but worthwhile to get the quicklaunch bar.
Have you (re)installed IE5.5? That may resolve any problems
If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers
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OK Jboy, I should not have been so specific. But I think I can pretty much guarantee that it wasn't in the Microsoft code. That was the point I was trying to make.
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An Error Has Occurred In the Script on This Page
If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers
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Have you tried going to:
IE/Tools/Internet Options/Advancedand putting a tick in "Disable Script Debugging"?
Probably way too simplistic but thought I
should mention it.DerekW
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.. it's a thought. 'Active Desktop' itself, I always found a bit troublesome - my own purpose for the update was just to get the (now standard) toolbar
If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers
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Jboy : tried uninstalling IE 5.5;error message states that "uninstallation files are missing or corrupted." So I'm going to work other angles.
Derek : yes I tried that. Didn't work.
But thanks for suggesting it. Seemed promising for about fifteen seconds. :)RD
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Right click install was the mistake made, there is some registering of files in that package that needs to take place and the standard right click Install doesn't take care of that aspect at all. Merge this and then use the new 'Active Install' choice which will then always do it right.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\inffile\shell\APInst]
@="Active I&nstall"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\inffile\shell\APInst\command]
@="rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %1, DefaultInstall"
OR... you could place ie4shl95.cab file in with your other ie5 installation files and run ie5setup with the following switch in the Run Box. (Adjust path according to your needs)"C:\Windows Update Setup Files\ie5setup.exe" /c:"ie5wzd /e:IE4Shell_WIN /I:Y"
This is getting really redundant - but the next easiest method to install the Active Desktop on 95 is just to re-install ie5. The second time around, that package installs by itself!!!! Ya CAN'T stop it either... Unless you don't have that cab file in the installation files folder, in which case ie5setup won't go online to look for it either - it just skips over it. Please, don't ever again uninstall, install, uninstall, install.... Any of the above methods will do it in under a minute.
Script error may not be solved by any of the above, you might want to install Microsoft Windows Script 5.6 which DOES work with 95 and ie5 just fine.Still no joy - get rid of that effing Norton?
Seriously there are a few aspects of 95 that may be at work in the background causing some of your installation troubles.First is 95's wininit.exe file that can't delete folders, solution is to substitute 98's wininit.exe which can and does. ie5 installs differently than ie4 and does use a file holding folder for some reason I can't fathom but it's supposed to be gone when done.
95's extract.exe is also buggy, best to use 98's which was fixed.
Finally 95's advpack.dll is sorely lacking in version numbers (and talent?), best to use ie6's which can be gotten via use of WinZip on ie6setup.exe. While you are at it, get 98's Advapi32.dll file which also has to do with installations, registering of files, etc., that may come into play when using modern installation packages/patches.
My bet is on the Script package, once you are running 5.6 you should be in the clear. Don't forget to use 3810 build Java for trojan protection, update 816093 at the WinUP Catalog site. IIRC it also installs just fine on 95/ie5 and then makes 95 immune to the byte verify exploit.
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Thanks to everyone : after reinstalling IE 5.5 and then uninstalling it, installing IE4 SP2 and then reinstalling IE 5.5 - which was unwieldy, but effective - the problem is solved.
Rich Dennis
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Gotta feeling this all boils down to a wrong IE file version that got stuck somewhere.
Glad to hear you sorted it anyway, and thx for popping back.
DerekW
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