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To: RJL who wrote (5672)	9/10/1999 12:54:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

okay, here's what i see... when i reboot and press F8 at the 'starting windows 95' message, i then select 'command prompt only'. at the C:\> prompt i enter the command 'copy e:\extract.exe c:\ and the response i get is 'invalid drive specification'. (btw, the only way i can get out of there is not with exit or esc but by using ctrl+alt+del.) now if i use the 'restart in ms-dos mode' choice in the shut down dialog, i get a 'device driver not found:MTMIDE01' and 'no valid cdrom device drivers selected' message. if i enter the above 'copy' command here at the C:\WINDOWS> prompt i get a 'file not found' message. i'm far from being the sharpest knife in the drawer with these things. any basics you feel you can provide will be helpful. i doubt that i am very far away from being able to extract and copy this kernel32.dll file from the win95 cd-rom. i just ran into this tiny little BRICK WALL at the onset. <g3> continued thanks... :) mark

To: RJL who wrote (5672)	9/12/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: TimbaBear	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110653

Sorry to intrude, but I've got a dumb question or two....I have an old HP4P Flatbed scanner that I tried to use on my new system and had so much fun, I've decided not to proceed....however, the process has left behind a few dingleberries that I would like to clean up. First, the installation process did not complete, and therefore I could not use "ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS" to remove the offending partially installed software. Second, I have removed everything that it installed that it will let me remove except for the C:\PAPERPORT file it created and three files within it that it says I cannot remove because they are shared with something else(but it doesn't tell me what). Third, I could live with those files being there, but now every time I boot, I get a message that demands my attention (the boot stops until I hit the "enter" key) that says that the Paperport software was not properly installed (ain't that just so special?). I think the instructions are probably in the Config.sys or Autoexec.bat files but I forget how to access them and edit them and that is the help I'm hoping you can provide. The system is a NEC yadda yadda plain vanilla with Win95