I have an PICStart Plus Rev.5 with firmware 1.20.00.
The alternate driver didn«t solve the problem on all machines. On my desktop
system  it worked well, but not on my notebook.
With the new MPLab v3.40.09 there comes a new firmware (PSF1500.hex). You«ll
need a new 17C44, as the PicStart Plus has an OTP version in it :-(
With this new firmware it works very well now.
Btw. check the programming voltage of your PICStart Plus (see readme.pls)

Tom


Calvin wrote:

> The only 'possible' problem I am aware of with Win95 is that, depending on
> the machine, the software may not detect the programmer. But you can
> download an alternate driver for the programmer from Planet Microchip that
> will solve the problem. You may also need to turn off the COM FIFO buffers.
> Besides this, it works well and supports ALL the PICs (assuming the firmware
> of the programmer is up to date).
>
> HTH
>
> Calvin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricardo Ponte G <rniniver@CANTV.NET>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Date: Jueves 11 de Junio de 1998 7:00 PM
> Subject: Help with MPlab v3.31 and W95...
>
> >
> >        Hi, to somebody that can hear my call:
> >
> >
> >        I«m new in this and I bought the PICStart Plus Programmer.  It came
> with
> >MPLAB v3.31 and I have Windows 95 running in my machine.
> >
> >        So, I don«t try the MPLAB yet but... I«ve read that this software
> have
> >some problems with Win95.
> >
> >
> >        Is that true?
> >
> >        What«s the posible soluiton ?
> >
> >                Thanks for the time...
> >