Can't Boot Win95 After Juno Software Install

[owensdj]

I installed Juno 4.0 free dial-up Internet software and IE 5.0 onto someone's computer. The machine worked fine last night, but this morning Win95 wouldn't boot. It gets this error:
"While initializing device IOS:
Error: An I/O subsystem driver failed to load
Either a file in the .\iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt or the system is low on memory"

The machine is an old Gateway 33MHz 486DX with 8MB of memory. I know it'll be slow, but it meets the minimum system requirements and should work.

I tried everything related to this error message in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, but I still can't fix it. Anybody have a suggestion?

 

[DAM]

can you atleast boot to dos? get a windows floopy disk and boot from it, then look around the *.ini files and *.bat files that windows uses at start up and see for any references to juno. this is assuming juno is the problem but honestly it could be other things, specially since you said it worked at first. are you sure this friend didnt mess around with anything else? maybe dled some porn or virii?




dam()

 

[owensdj]

DAM, I can boot in MS-DOS Mode and also in Safe Mode. I uninstalled IE5 and Juno 4.0 to see if that would fix the problem, but it didn't. I think IE5 did something to mess up Win95 because this machine didn't meet the minimum system requirements for IE5.

No one but me has did anything on this computer.