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whenever i try to load win95 it will get past the login screen and then an error message comes up and says "windows 95 cannot load explorer.exe" and i press the close button (x button is grayed out) and another dialog box comes up and say's "this file may be linked to the missing export user32.dll:isappwindowhung" I don't know why it happens i tried manually extracting explorer.exe and user32.dll but it didn't work. I tried the internet for user32.dll and explorer.exe and only found user32.dll. it didn't work. I tried reinstalling win95. it didn't work. I tried microsoft.com. it help.
Could be an infection. Did you scan for viruses or spyware?
Also, you need to list the error message EXACTLY. What you have in quotes is NOT the correct error message.
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i never connect to the internet with that computer and it was a cd-rom so you can't get a virus from the disk. the EXACT errormessage is "error loading explorer.exe you must reinstall windows" then after i press close it opens another window "The EXPLORER.exe file is linked to missing export user32.dll:ishungappwindow" and i can't even click the OK button and i have to use CTRL + ALT + DEL.
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Can you boot in safemode?
See below site.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156126Try their below recommendation.
Restart your computer. When you see the "Starting Windows 95" message, press the F8 key, and then choose Step-By-Step Confirmation from the Startup menu.
2. Load the following items when prompted: • Dblspace driver (if the hard disk is compressed).
• Do not process the Config.sys file.
• Himem.sys.
• Ifshlp.sys.
• Dblbuff.sys (only if prompted).
• Do not process the Autoexec.bat file.
• Load the Windows 95 graphical user interface (GUI), choosing to load all Windows drivers
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Actually, you CAN get an infection from a disc. Generally, it comes from homemade discs, but it can also come from retail software. It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen.
"I tried reinstalling win95. it didn't work"
What didn't work? Did you format the HDD 1st, or did you attempt an "over the top" (aka "dirty") installation?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188032
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The user32.dll you downloaded--did you correctly copy it to the windows\system folder? Are you sure you got the right version? And reinstalling 95 didn't fix it (it should have) or did the reinstallation fail. Did you reformat and do a fresh installation or was it an 'over the top' reinstall?
It may be too late now but you can extract the file from the 95 cd. You'll probably have to boot with a bootdisk that has cdrom support. Pay attention to the last few lines that load as that will tell you the cdrom drive letter.
At the dos prompt and with the 95 cd in the cdrom type:
EXTRACT D:\WIN95\WIN95_11.CAB USER32.DLL /L C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
**********************************************************************
and enter, where D: is the cdrom drive letter indicated when you booted up. If you get 'bad command or file name' then type:
PATH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
and enter. Then type the EXTRACT command again and hit 'enter'.
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i have a laptop and it can only have the cd-rom OR the floppy drive in it but i can use the emulator since windows 2k still works and since its 95b its a different cab file
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To extract a file from an unknown cab file:
EXTRACT /A D:\WIN95\WIN95_02.CAB USER32.DLL /L C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
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I would think 2K would have an extract function too. 98 and up has SFC which makes extracting easier.
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Well, 'didn't work' isn't much help. Are you saying the extraction process couldn't find the file or it found it, you installed it but you still have the same problem?
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Unless you desperately want to keep the 95 files I think you should reformat the drive 95 is on and reinstall it. I don't know how that works through an emulator but I think a fresh installation is the way to go.
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Why are you running all those versions of Windows anyway?
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I collect antique and old operating systems by microsft in hope of keeping working versions alive
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Alive for who?
Anyhow, as the links above show, your problem is related to the multi-boot configuration.
What are you using for a boot manager?
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"I figured since all but one run from dos i don't even need more than one partition"
Now we're getting somewhere! lol.
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"I figured since all but one run from dos i don't even need more than one partition"
Wrong! You need to have each Windows operating system installed on it's own separate partition, and you need to take into consideration the partition size limitations of each version, amongst other things.
E.g. 3 operating systems each on it's own partition is easily do-able - the first Dos/Win 3.1, the second Win 95, the third Win 2000.
When Win 2000 has been installed last it will automatically make a multi-boot menu so that you can choose which operating system to boot.
The same Dos version could be used for partitions for Win 1.x, 2.x, 3.1, but each of those Win versions must be installed on it's own partition. I don't know if Win 2000 would make a multi-boot menu for a 5 partition arrangement - Dos/Win 1.x, Dos/Win 2.x, Dos/Win 3.1, Win 95, Win 2000 - you may need to use a third party multi-boot utility to do that.
Dos 6.2x and Win 95 versions before OSR2 with their max FAT 16 partitioning have partition size limitations and placement of the partition on the hard drive limitations that Win 2000 doesn't have with it's FAT 32 or NTFS partitioning.
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actually right not wrong. i use an emulator for 3.1, win1x and 2x run from 2000 dos, and i have a win95 bootdisk with fat32 support (it's win95b and i have a fat32 drive). only problem is win95 doesn't work right now
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anyway i gave up on win95. I will try it on the computer i'm getting from my friend. it runs 98se and has two partitions or two actual drives one partition each so since most bios have a boot menu i guess i should be able to use that and run 95 if the second drive/second partition
is fat32,fat16,fat12 if this exists(i think,remember i THINK,i read it in a book once),or fat. all of this only if win95 does work. otherwise i'm just going with a solution of the disk is just old and won't work
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i just went over the page that jam sugested and found that the cause can be a some form of multiboot between nt 4.0 and 98se and win95 must be too similar to 98se and 2k(since it's built on nt technology)may be too similar to nt 4.0
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You didn't say you had a Win 3.1 emulator before, and I've never used Win 1.x or 2.x and I don't know why anyone would want to from what I've read about them. In any case Win 95 and Win 2000 cannot be installed on the same partition and have both work properly.
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