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Desktop Display Properties |
1st. To get to the Display Properties Box, right click your mouse at
any blank spot on your Desktop, then choose Properties.
Changing Resolution
1. Changing the desktop area (no rebooting required e.g.: from 640
X 480 to 800 X 600 or 1024 X 768)
2. Changing the color palette from 16 to 256 or 16 bit or 24 bit color
or vice versa (requires rebooting)
You may not think that "Explorer.exe Caused a GPF in Kernel32.Dll" has anything to do with a mouse or Video Display. But it has been documented to be one of the #1 causes of this error. And here is the solution. MAYBE?
To find your System's Graphics Acceleration settings:
1. Right click on My Computer
2. Choose Properties, that takes you to your System's Properties
3. Click Performance Tab
4. Click the Graphics button.
There you can adjust the speed of your Graphics Accelerator
Microsoft suggests that you reduce the hardware graphics acceleration setting for the video driver. Here's how: Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, and double-click System. In the System Properties window, click the Performance tab, then click Graphics. Move the Hardware acceleration slider one tick mark to the left of the Full setting. The following comment will appear in the window: "Most accelerator functions: Use this setting to correct problems with the mouse pointer."
There are three reasons why your graphics hardware may have difficulties using the Full graphics hardware acceleration setting. First, Windows 95 may have misidentified your display adapter or monitor during the installation procedure. If so, Windows 95 isn't using the proper drivers to communicate with your devices. Second, the version of display driver your system is using may be outdated. Many graphics hardware manufacturers have improved their drivers and released updated versions that perform more efficiently than the older versions. Third, your display adapter may be an older, less sophisticated, model. If that's the case, it simply may not be able to handle the Full graphics hardware acceleration setting.
Regardless of the cause, you'll want to begin your troubleshooting expedition by making sure that you have installed on your system the correct and most recent graphics hardware drivers available. If Windows 95 misidentified your display adapter or monitor during the installation procedure and you later install the most current drivers, you should use your system for a few days before adjusting the graphics acceleration setting. You may have solved the problem with the new drivers and will be able to safely and reliably use the Full graphics hardware acceleration setting. More detailed information on identifying and obtaining graphics hardware drivers.
Adjusting the setting
If you continue to have problems or if you discover that your display adapter is an older model, you'll want to adjust the graphics hardware acceleration setting to an appropriate level. The Hardware Acceleration slider actually has four notches. The notches from left to right correspond to None, Basic, Most, and Full. Moving the slider to the left gradually disables Windows 95's graphics acceleration features and lets you eliminate system crashes caused by graphics operations. To adjust the setting, access the Advanced Graphics Settings dialog box as we described earlier. Then, move the slider down a notch, click OK to close the Advance Graphics Settings dialog box, and click Close to dismiss the System Properties sheet. When the System Settings Change dialog box, prompts you to restart your system, click Yes to do so.
Identify @ Check Your System's Graphics Hardware
Best places to download updated drivers
Web Site Address
The Drivers HeadQuarters Web site [www.drivershq.com]
WinDrivers.com [www.windrivers.com]
Windows95.com Drivers Updates [www.windows95.com/drivers]
Windows Sources DriverFinder [www.zdnet.com/wsources]
Conclusion
Before you adjust the graphics hardware acceleration setting, make sure that Windows 95 is correctly using and identifying the display adapter card and monitor. If it's not, you'll need to install the proper driver.
1. Right click the desktop, choose Properties/Plus/Default Icon
2. Try right clicking on the recycle bin icon and then select Properties. Go to the Norton Protection tab. Make sure that Enable Protection is checked for at least one of the drives listed. Click OK or Apply. Nprotect.VxD will be loaded from that point onward and the recently deleted list will be available whenever you open Unerase.
3. It is a good idea to back up your registry before attempting any operation with Regedit. At the minimum, I recommend copying System.dat and User.dat to a temporary directory.
You can run Regedit and click Edit - Find and type in My Computer. It will come up with a long numeric key in the left pane and will show (Default) "My Computer" in the right pane. Click on the plus next to the numeric key in the left pane and after it expands, click on DefaultIcon. In the right pane it will show (Default) and the icon it is using. Right click on (Default) and pick Modify. It will pop up a dialog box with the icon name in it. Change it to C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.exe,0 (Or change the path if Windows is not installed in C:\WINDOWS) This will change it back to the original icon.
You should scroll the left pane back up to the top and click on My Computer before doing each search, so that the entire registry will be searched. Search for Network Neighborhood. Make sure Match whole string only is checked. The default icon for Network Neighborhood is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\shell32.dll,17
For Recycle Bin, (Default) and Empty are
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\shell32.dll,31
and Full is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\shell32.dll,32
You probably know you can drag the Network Neighborhood and My Computer icons to any edge of the Desktop to automatically format them as toolbars in Win98 or IE 4.0. But did you also know that you can do the same with any folder? Just drag the target folder to any edge, hold it there for a second or two, then let go. Windows will create a toolbar containing links to every file and subfolder in the folder you dragged. Any items added to or deleted from the folder are instantly reflected on the toolbar.