You're welcome - glad to help.
Thanks for the feedback

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Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"bill allemann" wrote in message
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worked great!

thanks a lot, Noel

bill



"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Look Here for your SUWIN error......
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888555

You need to download an ME boot disk - look here...
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
- use the OEM disk

WRT file extraction- look here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129605


HTH

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Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"bill allemann" wrote in message
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an old laptop won't boot and gives the missing IFSHLP.SYS msg.
There is no startup diskette, and I don't have access to another winme
machine.

The knowledge base instructions pretty much all have methods done from
Windows, but I can't boot into windows.

I found one KB article that talked about extracting a file (like
IFSHLP.SYS from cab files in c:\windows\options\install.
The extract command seems to need the source cab file specified. How do
I know which cab file has
a specific file?

Any way to get windows to run again ?

I do have the OEM cd's, and I've tried to reload windows, but it always
stops
at 65% completion with SUWIN error, GPF in mod VERX.DLL.