May 97 Under the original release of Windows95, I am able to dual-boot Windows 3.x and Windows95 by pressing F4 on startup. Can I dual-boot OSR2 with Windows 3.x in this way?
No. Beginning with OSR2, no future release of Windows95 will support dual-booting with Windows 3.x. You can still use a third-party boot manager (such as is bundled with Partition Magic 3.0, Windows NT 4.0, or OS/2) to dual boot. Microsoft released a utility to beta testers of OSR2 which restored dual-boot capability to OSR2. I have heard one report that someone obtained this utility by request from Microsoft, but I know no details on how this was done. There are several third-party methods of restoring dual-boot capability to OSR2. These do not include editing MSDOS.SYS (this lets you boot to the previous OS but hangs when you try to boot to OSR2 again), or using TweakUI. The simplest way to restore dual-boot capability to OSR2 is to run a one-time patch program. I know of two such patches (the feedback I have gotten indicates that they work fine, but use at your own risk!). Please direct all comments about these patches to the authors. WARNING! Some recent feedback from readers indic
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