During this process of reinstalling Win95, my current IE browser became unavailable, icon gone-won't open from the exe file-won't reinstall because it says the needed uninstall program is missing, so I don't have access to the tools option. I have an old Netscape and IE that open, remenants of Win3.1 that remained on my hard drive, that I have used in emergencies in the past. I can access one of the internet option boxes, but it must refer to it's own cpl file. This time neither one of these is a source of rescue.

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OSR is Operatins System Release. Windows 95 had 2 major releases.. it's first one, which wasn't out for too long, and the second one, which was referred to as Win95 OSR2, or as it's sometimes called, just "95OSR" If you can open Internet Explorer, then you can access the same thing by clicking Tools-Internet Options that you can access from the Internet applet in control panel, as RM stated above. If you can get onto the internet, go to Microsoft.com, or even better, if your OS has it in the start menu, click on the Windows Update link. Then you can download versions of Internet Explorer, and with that new install, it should rebuild the lost icons. HTH -Dave C

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Thanks for explaining OSR. The problem is that the browser, even if it is open on the desktop, acts as if it doesn't see the modem, even when the modem is connected. It tries and then the message that "the program couldn't find the address for www.***" appears. Although I can open "options" from the menu bar and get to the internet options box with it's tabs, there is no connection tab where the dial-up settings - IP can be entered or appear. The newer versions have those settings located there but in this version (3.0.1068 Beta) it must have to be entered someplace else. Perhaps directly into a Winsocks setting? Thanks for your interest and response.

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Better wait for another poster to back me up on this one, but: I believe AOL uses an integrated version of Internet Expolorer. What if grabbing one of those free AOL CD's that you can get at any minimart, your mailbox, or your local dump, and install it on your system... would that upgrade Internet Explorer to a more recent version, and give it the needed overhaul? YOu wouldn't need to sign up for AOL or anything, once it's done with the install, you can uninstall it, and it should leave IE behind. Just a thought? never tried it, but seems like it might be a fast way of getting your IE reinstalled. But again, I'd wait and see if other posters agree with the philosophy before trying it... -Dave C

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That's an idea, and off hand, I don't see what would be lost by trying it. I received so many over the years, now just to find one. Thanks

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The source of all the error messages and problems, in my case, was that every time I reinstalled Win 95 I kept the newer versions of the files that the pop-up windows recommended doing. After letting Win95 install the original files, no more conflicts and error messages. The most trouble seemed to be caused by the newer commctl32.dll file.

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