On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:07:23 -0000, "J. P. Gilliver"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

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

These files are not missing. AFAIK they are included as "static" vxds
within vmm32.vxd which is custom built during Windows installation.

- Franc Zabkar
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