Important Info for EZCD Creator Users

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I put this information into another thread in answer to a question, and then realized that there may be a lot of people out there who can benefit from it. So here it is....

I recently added a USB Compaq Flash card reader to my system (Windows 98 SE). It refused to work properly and would hang the machine if a card was inserted into the reader, although it would work fine on another PC (running Windows ME).

After searching the website of the card reader company (SanDisk) I found that the problem was actually caused by the EZCD Creator Deluxe 4 program that was previously installed. It seems this program renames some Windows system files and replaces them with its own versions.

You can find the full story at:

http://www.sandisk.com/cons/imagemate.htm

But to save you from going there, here is the bottom line on it, quoting from the Sandisk site:

"The Easy CD Creator program uses certain APIX.vxd functions that are also incorporated into Windows 98. This alone is not a problem. However, when CD Creator is installed, it renames Microsoft's APIX files. When these files are renamed, compatibility issues arise between CD Creator and other peripherals (such as ImageMate) that use the APIX functions."

I am inclined to believe them since I had the exact problem as described at their site. They have a batch file you can download, which contains the following fix:


echo off
cd \windows\system\iosubsys
if not exist APIX.BAK goto end
:ren
copy APIX.VXD APIX.ADP
copy APIX.BAK APIX.VXD
cd ..
if not exist WNASPI32.BAK goto end1
copy WNASPI32.DLL WNASPI32.ADP
copy WNASPI32.BAK WNASPI32.DLL
:end1
echo "Please type any key to continue then reboot the system"
pause
:end
echo on


As you can see it just restores from backup files that EZCD Creator makes when it installs itself.

The batch file did not initially fix my problem. However when I later erased my whole system and re-installed everything (something I had planned on doing anyways) I had the same problem occur again right after installing EZCD. I immedately ran the above patch and that fixed the problem, everything works fine now. My guess why it did not work before is that during troubleshooting I had re-installed EZCD several times and the back-up files were also replaced with the wrong (EZCD) versions.
 
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