The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a, 3.1, 3.11
SUMMARY
Microsoft Windows files must be decompressed before they can be used
by the computer. If you copy a compressed mouse driver from the
Windows disks to your hard drive without decompressing the driver
first, adding it to your CONFIG.SYS file, and then rebooting the
machine, the machine hangs.
Rebooting the machine, or turning it off and on again does not solve
the problem because the unreadable file prevents the computer from
going through the startup procedure correctly.
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To correct this situation, do the following:
- Boot from an MS-DOS floppy disk.
- Delete the compressed mouse driver file. (Depending on your Windows
version, compressed files have "$" or "_".) If the compressed file was
renamed, giving it the correct last letter, check the size of the file
against the compressed file on your floppies.
- Copy EXPAND.EXE from Windows Disk 2 onto your hard drive.
- Insert the disk with the file to be expanded into a floppy drive.
- Type the following, where X: is the source disk, and press ENTER:
EXPAND X:FILENAME.SY$ C:\WINDIRECTORY\FILENAME.SYS (Windows 3.0)
EXPAND X:FILENAME.SY_ C:\WINDIRECTORY\FILENAME.SYS (Windows 3.1)
FILENAME.SY$ is the name of the compressed file to be copied.
WINDIRECTORY is the name of your Windows directory.
FILENAME.SYS is the renamed file that appears on the hard drive.
The following are examples:
EXPAND A:\MOUSE.SY$ C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.SYS (Windows 3.0, 3.0a)
EXPAND A:\MOUSE.SY_ C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.SYS (Windows 3.1, 3.11)
NOTE: The information about EXPAND.EXE is covered in the Windows version
3.0 README.TXT in the "Copying Files from the Windows 3.00 Disks" section.
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