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To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20656)	6/14/2001 7:43:59 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Martin I'd start with replacing the missing dll's. Here's an article on doing it from smartcomputing magazine. members.aol.com Here's where you can download hypertrim. The site says it's for windows98se and I downloaded it and it's virus free. If you have anti-virus software scan it or I can email the file to you if you pm me your address. drd.dyndns.org To the best of my recollection, you can reinstall win98se over the top of your original install without losing any info. If a program you installed has replaced any system files it may not work and you will just have to reinstall the program. This may also solve your missing dll problem. About the Directx problem. Have you been to windows update page and installed the latest version (ver 8, I believe)? I'll be gone most of the day but I'm sure help will arrive soon. This should get you started. tc

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20656)	6/14/2001 2:37:07 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110652

hi marty regarding the windoc errors... my advice, given the extent of the difficulties you are having, is to let windoc fix what it has found using the solution it automatically chooses. remember, there is an undo repair feature you can avail yourself of if you find that you must. the probs with the windows directx diagnostic tool may well be alleviated by allowing windoc to repair the problems it finds. try it and see. as for installing w98se on top of itself to correct errors, i have heard two different versions or opinions.... that this is not effective, and that it can correct some errors, i.e, restore missing or corrupted files. so i will defer to others with their thoughts on this. re, "Can I do this without disturbing Internet Explorer and Outlook Express and my ISP configurations?" ... you ask a good question there, marty. i do not know for sure, and hope that perhaps others will share what they know to be true about this. bottom line, my advice (accompanied by the standard disclaimer...my attempts at assistance may have nothing to do with what is in fact going on with your computer) is to use the tools and utilities that you have at hand right now, and let them do what they are designed to do. even if that does not entirely eliminate your problem, it should move you a lot closer to eventual resolution. good luck, and keep us posted :) mark

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20656)	6/14/2001 3:00:04 PM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

1. Press "Print Screen" key for desired display to be saved. 2. Start MS Paint 4. Select Edit > Paste (Ctrl-V) 5. Answer YES if a question about screen size pops up 6. Save .bmp file. This is simple but be careful as e mailing it is not.

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20656)	6/15/2001 3:37:20 AM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 110652

I think you are out of luck or That is why it is called Internet Exploder You have been exploded. When IE explodes it often damages other vital organs, seek professional help, remember to mumble constantly, "I never touched the registry, I never touched.... and finally, the single redeeming point, It is all Microsoft's fault, and now you know.

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20656)	6/15/2001 11:05:25 AM
From: tanstfl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Hi Marty, Just a couple of thoughts. First, you could pick up a good size hard drive for under $100 any number of places. For example: ubid.com I've bought a couple there (from Ubid; haven't tried their partners, etc.) and had no problems; pretty much the same as any other Internet source. Pull your c drive so that you don't accidentally screw it up and put a new drive in it's place and install windows. Make sure you do the follow thru and get the latest drivers, applications updates, etc. If you presently have two drives, make your old c-drive a slave to your new c-drive and put your old d-drive as master on the seconadary IDE with the cdrom as the slave. If you only have one drive, install it as the master on the secondary drive. Either way, make sure you assign the cdrom the drive letter it will end up with as your first item of business after the OS oinstall completes. Otherwise, if you do everything as suggested the cdrom will move down a letter per partition on the old c-drive. This allows you to recoover things you might have forgotton at your leisure. If you want to reinstall on the same drive, copy the Win98 install directory to the c-drive (not the whole CD). Then boot to the dos prompt by pressing F8 and selcting safe mode command prompt. Type "set path=c:\windows\command" without the quotes and then type "move progra~1 prog_old" and then "move windows win_old". Then type "set path=". Then cd into the win98 install directory you copied onto the hard drive, type setup, and go with the flow. Make sure you do not accept windows suggested install directory (win_old). Have it use c:\windows. When you are done you will have to reinstall everything as in the first paragraph but you will not have lost anything. I'm not aware of any programs that delete old data on an install over the original directory, but a backup ahead of time never hurts. You will now be blessed with much the same windows as the rest of us. If the same problems still occur you either have a driver conflict or hardware problem. Although I suppose their might be an oddball application that could corrupt things. You might want to save non-mainstream stuff until you see how it behaves for a while. This all pre-supposes that you have eliminated virus's, etc. as possible causes. Good luck, Steve