Share.exe Is Not Supported in Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98

ID: Q161619

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 95 OEM Service Release versions 2, 2.1, and 2.5
Microsoft Windows 98

SUMMARY

The Share.exe tool is not included with Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2) or Windows 98. File sharing and locking capabilities are provided by APIs in IFSManager and are not supported in MS-DOS mode. You may not be able to install or run some MS-DOS-based programs or 16-bit Windows-based programs that require Share.exe in OSR2 or Windows 98.

MORE INFORMATION

In earlier versions of Windows, Share.exe is used only in real-mode MS-DOS. In order to support the FAT32 file system, Share.exe support has been disabled in the real-mode MS-DOS kernel regardless of whether or not you have any drives using the FAT32 file system.

Some programs look for a file named Share.exe in either the root folder or the DOS folder. This file can be a zero-byte file created with a text editor (such as Notepad). Other programs may simply look for the string "share" in the Autoexec.bat file.

Additional query words: 95


Keywords          : kbtool osr2 win95 win98 
Version           : 95
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: January 29, 1999