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Cant get Litestep to work on old Windows 95 laptop! Thread last updated on 2004-08-05 12:39:04

Posted by member 108633 on 2004-08-03 15:48:44

I'm trying to get Litestep to work on an old laptop. It has Windows95 and no internet connection(all modules would have to be download and put on a floppy since there is no cd drive or anyway to connect the two computers). Anyways I get these two errors:

Title bar: C:\Litestep\NLM\NetLoadModule2.dll
error: could not locate module. Please check you configuration.

Title bar: RUNDLL
Error loading C:\windows\system\iemonce.dll
The system cannot find the file specified.

Then Litestep loads. There is not desktop or anything(probably since the modules couldnt load). Only the wallpaper is shown. I searched google for system requirements. Litestep should run on windows 95, right? Thanks for any help.

Posted by member 31 on 2004-08-03 19:14:02 link

So, does "C:\Litestep\NLM\NetLoadModule2.dll" exist? If not that is your first problem... Re-install using Omar's Litestep installer. http://beyondconvention.net/ohussain/lsinstaller/

Are you sure it is looking for "iemonce.dll"? Or was that a typo? (the actual dll it should be trying to load is "iernonce.dll")

Posted by member 31 on 2004-08-03 19:17:13 link

Actually, on the iernonce.dll problem, you need to update to Litestep RC3.

Posted by member 108633 on 2004-08-03 23:17:04 link

ok, this was RC1, split with a file splitter and put onto a few floppies. When I have the time and the floppies ill download RC3.

Posted by member 108633 on 2004-08-03 23:48:12 link

I still get both errors. And NetLoadModule2.dll does exist.

Posted by member 169398 on 2004-08-04 00:23:22 link

Is the path to NetLoadModule2.dll correct in your your setup?

Posted by member 820 on 2004-08-04 02:40:47 link

Isn't it not a very good idea to be using netloadmodule when the laptop isn't going to be connected to the internet? Or do you just plan on manually installing all the modules that netloadmodule can't find?

Posted by member 31 on 2004-08-04 09:22:48 link

Um, you definetely shouldn't be getting the iernonce.dll error with RC3 if it does not exist. There is a specific check for that. Can you verify that iernonce.dll does not exist in the location Litestep is trying to load it from?

Posted by member 108633 on 2004-08-04 11:10:36 link

There is no iernonce.dll in the system folder(Litestep doesnt work with 95?), but there is netloadmodule2.dll, but I think I wont even load that and just use LoadModule "C:\litestep\modules\whatever.dll". Litestep does load, as I can use the ctr alt f1 menu, but none of the modules load.

Posted by member 1316 on 2004-08-04 12:50:08 link

I thought that netloadmodule required a valid internet connection, otherwise it would crash... thought I can't remember for sure. maybe rabidcow will look at this thread...

Posted by member 108633 on 2004-08-04 13:21:18 link

I used LoadModule for the popup, but it stil didnt work.

Posted by member 31 on 2004-08-04 15:41:29 link

Well, if iernonce.dll does not exist, Litestep should ignore it (there is a specific check for it). I'm not saying I don't believe you, but it seems odd. I'll have to look into it. Are you sure you are running RC3?

Could you paste in error messages that you get when you try to load specific module with LoadModule syntax (hint, CTRL+C on an error box copies the text)? Anyway, I'm pretty sure popup2.dll does not support win95. I'm afraid you'll find that most modules out there do not. The ones I do know work with Win95 (or so I've tried to ensure) are my own modules (jkey/tasks/jdesk/bangvwm/systray). I think label supported 95 in the versions that Maduin releaed, but not subsequent ones modified by other people.

Posted by member 108633 on 2004-08-04 22:32:23 link

Im using a different computer, and when i wrote the error messages, I was looking at the errors on the laptop. Are there any popups that work on 95(like older versions). If there arnt, then why do people say that it works on any windows system 95 and above?

Posted by member 31 on 2004-08-05 11:27:21 link

Because Litestep core does run in 95 (or should - bug reports are welcome). We can't control whether modules are compatible or not though, that is up to the developer of the module.

I believe the popup module in http://purels.org/binaries/plsoption.zip will work under Win95. Otherwise you're going to have to use Trial/Error method of discovering what works/doesn't. Perhaps you can mention to loose-screws that having an OS compatibility field in the modules description and sort methods would be nice. That'd take a while to flush out, but I can see that being useful.

Posted by member 99 on 2004-08-05 12:39:04 link

NLM requires IE3 (for URLDownloadToCacheFile), should work fine without an internet connection as long as the modules don't need to be downloaded.

The next release should work without IE3 if it never has to download anything, and will let you select a zip anywhere on the drive to install. (the same way it lets you select a dll now)