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Old March 19th 08, 08:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
J. P. Gilliver
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Default "missing" .vxd files

Franc Zabkar wrote:
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I'm not a programmer, but that particular registry key appears to
contain references to a whole bunch of drivers that are loaded during
the boot process. The "static" VxDs are lumped together into a single
file, vmm32.vxd, so I don't really understand why Windows would say


Nor did I.

those static VxD files are missing, unless vmm32.vxd is itself missing
or corrupted. I'd run a hard disc diagnostic tool to verify that there
are no bad sectors on your drive. Just in case vmm32.vxd is occupying
some intermittently bad sectors, I'd make a copy of it (if it is
readable) and rename the original to vmm32.bak, say. The copy will
hopefully occupy good sectors.


Well, the machine has shown no sign of any hard disc problems; a quick
Windows reinstall made it OK, and it's not given any (of that sort of)
problems since. (We're having trouble getting the Edit function of Brother's
Keeper [genealogy s/w] to work, but for the moment I'm working with the
programmer, John Steed - I can't see how that's going to be on topic for
this 'group anyway).

FWIW, this is what Wikipedia has to say:

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The Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is one of the core components of
Windows 9x. The VMM creates virtual MS-DOS environments for system
processes and Windows applications that still need to run in MS-DOS
mode. The VMM is the replacement for Win386 in Windows 3.x, and the
file vmm32.vxd is a monolithic file which contains many basic VxDs
that are needed for booting Windows.

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Well, I don't _think_ it's that - I can't think of any DOS-based (or early
Windows) s/w we run. The page that one of the regular experts on here found
which seemed to describe the problem almost exactly implied that it was
something to do with USB drivers, though that seemed unlikely too.
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