Check this out J. P.:
http://projectdream.org/wordpress/20...98-and-vmmvxd/

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"J. P. Gilliver" wrote in message
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Visiting a friend over the weekend, his W98SE system wouldn't boot - this
happened while I was watching, and he said he'd not had any problems the
last time he'd used it (the previous day).

It came up with the usual sort of message '98 does when an important file
is missing, and said ("one or more of" which seems odd!) the following
were missing:

vmm.vxd
shell.vxd
vtd.vxd (yes, definitely a t, not an f)
vxdrdr.vxd
vpicd.vxd
vwin32.vxd

I tried an ERU to the last one I'd saved (only around the start of
February), no luck, same message; I checked for the files, and sure enough
they weren't there (apart from possibly the first one, vmm.vxd, which
might have been in windows\system\vmm32). I also checked the W98
installation files, intending to do an extract if necessary, and the files
(well the two or three I tried) weren't there.

I eventually did a Windows reinstall (followed by the ERU), and all is
well again; however, those files are _still_ not there - it just isn't
looking for them this time.

Naturally I'm somewhat cross; can anyone tell me what it was that was
looking for them, and is it something I can back up (i. e. the version
that _isn't_ looking for them) to avoid having to do a reinstall if it
should happen again?

(And what do those files do?)

(I say all is well: one - the important one! - aspect of Brothers' Keeper,
the genealogy program, is now not working.)
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J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298

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