Windows 95 International Components
Note: This download is not intended for use on PCs running Microsoft® Windows® 98.
This page lists the fixes contained in the Japanese Microsoft Windows 95 Service Pack 1 Update.
- OLE32 Update
The Windows 95 OLE 32 update addresses file-management behavior in
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint® for Windows 95.
Because of the way these applications use OLE for file storage, files created by
these applications might contain extraneous data from previously deleted files.
This data is not visible while you use the applications. However, when such a
document file is viewed by using Windows Notepad (for example), it might be
possible to see pieces of information from the previously deleted files. This
could pose information security or privacy concerns if you distribute electronic
versions of files created using these applications.The
OLE 32 update addresses this problem. Although the problem is known to occur
only in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint for Windows 95, the OLE 32 update
is designed to prevent any application from potentially causing the same
problem. Notes
- If you use Microsoft Office with Windows NT™, this
problem does not affect you, because the operating system initializes (clears)
any disk space used by deleted files.
- If you use Microsoft Word 6.0, Microsoft Excel 5.0, or
Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 with Windows version 3.1 or on an Apple® Macintosh®
computer, contact Microsoft Customer Services to obtain the "C"
maintenance releases of these products. Early releases of these versions are
known to have a similar extraneous-data problem, which is fixed in the "C"
releases. If you use Microsoft Word 6.0, Microsoft Excel 5.0, or Microsoft
PowerPoint 4.0 with Windows 95, you should also obtain the "C"
releases of these products.
- Microsoft Windows 95 Shell Update
This update to Shell32.dll makes it possible to browse NetWare®
Directory Service printers from the Add Printer wizard. The Add Printer Wizard
is found in the Printers folder. This change is applicable to you if you have
installed Service for NetWare Directory Services.
This update to the Windows 95 Shell32.dll file also fixes a
problem in which files copied onto themselves can be truncated to a zero-byte
file size. This occurs only in the following circumstances:
- When you copy a file onto itself using two different views
of the same network resource (these can be different mapped drive letters or UNC
connections to a network resource).
- When you copy a file onto itself using a drive that was
created by the SUBST command.
- Vserver Update: File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft
Networks
This update is for a problem with File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft
Networks and a certain UNIX® network client (Samba's SMBCLIENT). The update
corrects a problem with share-level security documented in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base on October 9, 1995. The update also includes a correction for a
similar problem with user-level security that Microsoft recently discovered as
part of its internal testing of the new driver.Note
- The phrase "Microsoft Networks" refers to
Microsoft's networking software, not MSN™ (The Microsoft Network online
service).
Windows 95 enables users of the
Samba SMBCLIENT to gain unauthorized access to the drive on which sharing is
enabled by accepting certain specific networking commands. The Samba client is
the only known SMB client that sends such networking commands. SMBCLIENT users
do not automatically have access to the Windows 95 drive, and must know the
exact steps to send these commands. The updated
driver prevents Windows 95 from accepting these commands, preventing SMBCLIENT
users from accessing the drive on which sharing is enabled. With the updated
driver, an SMBCLIENT user will have access only to those shared folders that a
Windows 95 user has designated.
- NWServer Update: File and Printer Sharing for NetWare
Networks
This update is for a problem with File and Printer Sharing for NetWare
Networks which might affect data security for corporate users. If your computer
is configured for file and printer sharing and Remote Administration is enabled,
another user on the network might gain read-only access to your computer after
the administrator has logged off the computer and before you have restarted your
computer. To correct this problem, Microsoft has issued an updated driver for
File and Printer Sharing for NetWare Networks. The updated driver ensures that
only valid administrators have access to the computer's drive.
- Vredir Update
The Vredir Update fixes a problem that affects only Windows 95 users who
use Samba UNIX servers. The problem arises from the basic Windows 95 and UNIX
filename formats. UNIX allows filenames that include the backslash (\) and
asterisk (*) characters, but in Windows 95, these are wildcard characters.
Suppose that a Samba server contains a file named \\server\share\*.*, a legal
UNIX filename. If a Windows 95 user connects to that server and tries to delete
the *.* file by using Windows Explorer, all the files on \\server\share are
deleted instead. This updated version of Vredir prevents this from happening by
rejecting filenames that contain the \ or * characters.
- Windows 95 Password List Update
The Windows 95 Password List Update protects your password file against
potential security violations. When you connect to a password-protected
resource, such as a network drive, you can choose to save that password. Windows
then stores the password in an encrypted file on your hard disk. An algorithm
was posted on the Internet for decrypting this file. If someone has access to
your password file and knows the decryption algorithm, they may be able to
decrypt it and the passwords it contains—and then gain access to the
password-protected resources. The Password List Update provides vastly improved
encryption that is 2^96 (2 to the 96th power) harder to decrypt than the
previous encryption method.
- Windows 95 GDI Update
This update affects only the Japanese version of Windows 95. This update corrects two known problems with GDI. The first problem is associated with CD PLUS and the font registration process. If the CD PLUS CD registers a font when it is inserted then this registration will fail and an error message will be displayed. The second problem is a General Protection Fault which occurs during raster font rotation when there is a low memory condition.
- Windows 95 Kernel (kernel32.dll) Update
This update affects only the Japanese version of Windows 95. This update provides a fix for the memory usage problem associated with using the LCMapString A() API. When repeatedly searching or sorting large databases in or from database applications like Microsoft Access or Microsoft Visual Basic, the system runs out of memory. System will notify user with an "Out of Memory" message.
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