OFF95: Vredir.vxd Not Updated During Setup on Shared Windows

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Office for Windows 95, version 7.0

SYMPTOMS

When you perform a post-administrative Setup of Microsoft Office for Windows 95, version 7.0, on a computer that is running shared Windows 95, the file Vredir.vxd is not updated correctly, and the following message appears:

   An error occurred while trying to install the following file: <folder
   name>\vredir.vxd

CAUSE

When you run a post-administrative installation of Office 7.0 on a computer that is running shared Windows 95, Setup cannot shut down Windows 95 and update Vredir.vxd.

Note that on a computer running a local installation of Windows 95, the Setup program restarts Windows 95 in order to update files that are already in use by Windows 95; that is, the Setup program replaces or updates files such as Vredir.vxd upon restarting the computer.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, ask your System Administrator to copy Vredir.vxd from an existing local installation of Office 7.0 to the administrative Windows 95 installation folder on the server. For example, if the administrative Windows installation is in the \\Servername\Netsetup folder, then copy the new Vredir.vxd file to the System\Vmm32 subfolder. Then run the Office Setup program again.

The System Administrator must verify that no one is running shared Windows before he or she copies the Vredir.vxd file to the server.

Vredir.vxd can be found on a computer that has an existing local installation of Office 7.0. This file is located in the Windows\System folder.

NOTE: The older version of the Vredir.vxd file is dated 07-11-1995 and has a file size of 140,343 bytes. The version number is 4.00.950. The newer Vredir.vxd file is 140,367 bytes in size, and is version 4.00.955.

After your System Administrator copies the file to the shared Windows folder, subsequent post-administrative installations use the updated Vredir.vxd file.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.