December 1, 2001
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So, after having it sit and ripen on my desk for three weeks, I finally decided to install the package of Virtual PC on my main Mac. Now, I say to myself with just a hint of smugness, I can properly test all the whacked CSS design I’ve been doing lately in a flexible cross-platform, multiple browser environment. Right. The version of Virtual PC I purchased is a simple Windows 98 SE install. I decided to go with Win98 instead of Win2K or one of its other twisted relatives because it was the standard PC-based OS that we used back at EyeWire and I had already established a fairly healthy love/hate relationship with it. After the initial installation, I fired up Internet Explorer in order to buzz over to the Windows Update page and find out how many security patches and critical updates my newly acquired operating system required. Apparently, only eleven of them. Unfortunately, I couldn’t install six of those eleven because of DLL errors and some strange animal identifying itself as a ThunkConnect32 failure. Is it any wonder there are so many unpatched PCs on the net? Crap. Please tell me why I am doing this again. [ Update ] I received an email from Tom Collins who solved this very same issue by deleting the W95INF32.DLL and W95INF16.DLL files from /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/. He had to boot into DOS mode to do it, but it solved the problem. He mentioned that since my page is one of the few that came up in a Google search for ThunkConnect32 and Virtual PC, I should add this little note to it for all the world to see. So there you have it.
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