#W32s1.25a hangs AStudio
Last week I installed Netscape on my PC. While installing, I was informed by
the Netscape Installer, that I did not have the most recent version of W32 for
Windows for Workgroups, and that I could download it from Microsoft which I
did. The file I pulled from MS was PW118.exe which extracted into a bunch of
files one of which was called w32s125.exe dated 5/18/95 and was 1.21MB. I first
backed up my current version of windows to another drive, and then proceded
with the installation of Win32s 1.25a in my currently active windows directory.
Now I cannot run Autodesk's Animator Studio, Adobe Premiere or Elastic Reality
without a fatal hang (no warning or GPF, just frozen screen). I suspected since
all those apps employ the media Player, this might be the problem. When I run
the Media Player from windows, I get the same result – frozen screen. When I
switch over to my backed up version of windows, the problem is gone. What's
going on?