philo wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver" wrote in message
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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
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As a precaution, run a RAM test


http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Normally good advice (though you shouldn't make suggesting it a reflex
response!), but I somehow can't see how a RAM fault could have caused such a
specific problem!

The article Gary S. Terhune points to in the next post describes something
very similar.
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