I have wordstar for windows 1. Which I have not used for years. Last night I installed it onto my HP w/Windows ME. After installing it, I clicked on it, and immediately after it started to load I got the message, "Wswin has caused an error in WSWIN.EXE. Wswin will now close. If you continue to experience problems, try restarting you computer." Which I did w/o any change. I then did the "ALT" and got the message, "WSWIN caused a general protection fault in module WSWIN.EXE @0077:00000a4d." It also gave the contents of the registers, and the Stack dump. Any idea what I might try? I already tried yelling! any other ideas?
Hi,
Make sure the installed path only uses 8-letter names with no spaces, etc. For example: C:\WSWIN, not C:\WordStar for Windows. The formar is the default.
Make sure you have a C:\TEMP folder.
If you have a C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file, make sure it includes the commands:
- PATH=$PATH;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WSWIN
- SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
- SET WSWWORK=C:\TEMP
If you don't have an AUTOEXEC.BAT create one with those settings using Notepad.
Try renaming default.wst in your WSWIN\TEMPLATE folder. Restart WSWin and it should copy back a clean version from the C:\WSWIN folder.
Check that you have at least one printer installed in Windows. When you get WSWin to start the first time you should get a message telling you that you need to select a printer.
All versions of WSWin should run in all versions of Windows from 3.1 onwards, so it's not that it can't run in Windows Me.