On Oct 8, 3:52*pm, "philo" wrote:
"Eroica" wrote in message

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The relevant computer (not this one!) is an older HP laptop with
Win98SE, 650 MHz PIII and (I think) 256MB of RAM. *I bought the system
several years ago as a used item (not a good investment -- I wouldn't
do it again).

I installed a program that has unfortunately corrupted the operating
system. *The message I get is:

The OLE32.DLL file is linked to missing export ADVAP132.DLL:
DuplicateEncryptionInfoFile

The system then says it can't use Windows Explore.

The problem is, I can't get into the system to fix it. *I don't have a
boot CD ROM, and I tried creating one from an .iso file I downloaded
from the web, but it created nothing I can use. *I can't boot from the
resulting disk. *I'd be happy to just reinstall Win98SE on the
computer, but I can't get anywhere without booting from the CD ROM.

Suggestions?

Before you even attempt to reinstall,
your system may very well be repairable...especially if the problem just
happened.

Turn your machine back on...
but just after the bios messages, slowly tap F8 a few times
and you should get a boot menu..

then select: command prompt

now type and enter * *scanreg /restore

next choose to restore a registry from a date prior to the problem
then reboot and hopefully your system will work again- Hide quoted text -

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I appreciate the suggestion. However, upon rebooting, the system
still reports the same missing/corrupted file, and I cannot get a full
boot. I tried several times to download software to create a bootable
disk, and I also downloaded a program to write out iso files. The
resulting boot disks left me with either just a blinking cursor or
took me to an A: prompt. I thought a bootable Win 98 SE disk would
take me into Win 98 SE. Silly me. I don't mind rebuilding Windows on
this computer, but I haven't found a way to access my Win 98 SE
upgrade disks to do it (I have two disks).