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"missing" .vxd files
Franc Zabkar wrote:
[] 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: [] 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. [] 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. -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298 Essex home for sale, £59,950: see http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/ |
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