Windows 98SE will not start

When I start the computer it goes to the Microsoft Windows
Startup Menu. It then says Warning: Windows has detected
a registry/configuation error. Choose, Command prompt
only, and run SCANREG. It then will say The following
file is missing or corrupted C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS.
When this first happened it was after the computer shut
itself down. If I remember correctly I was trying to
figure out why I was having problems connecting to the
Internet. The only other thing I can remember doing was
I had uninstalled Real Player, but I believe I did that a
day or two before this happened. I've been searching the
Internet for a few days and have not found my specific
problem mentioned. Being computer challenged any advice
would be most appreciated. Thank you.

Run SFC.EXE and extract the file from your Windows CD.

System File Checker explained
....hopefully in layman's terms.
http://users.westelcom.com/rogersr/sfc.htm


--

Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
===


"Robert Garman" wrote in message
...
When I start the computer it goes to the Microsoft Windows
Startup Menu. It then says Warning: Windows has detected
a registry/configuation error. Choose, Command prompt
only, and run SCANREG. It then will say The following
file is missing or corrupted C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS.
When this first happened it was after the computer shut
itself down. If I remember correctly I was trying to
figure out why I was having problems connecting to the
Internet. The only other thing I can remember doing was
I had uninstalled Real Player, but I believe I did that a
day or two before this happened. I've been searching the
Internet for a few days and have not found my specific
problem mentioned. Being computer challenged any advice
would be most appreciated. Thank you.

Tried this and I believe anything that was mentioned in
the links. No luck. Best I got was bad command or file
name. I also got a general failure reading drive C. Any
thing else to try? Thank you. Would have responded
earlier but was out of town.
-----Original Message-----
Run SFC.EXE and extract the file from your Windows CD.

System File Checker explained
....hopefully in layman's terms.
http://users.westelcom.com/rogersr/sfc.htm


--

Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
===


"Robert Garman"
wrote in message
...
When I start the computer it goes to the Microsoft
Windows
Startup Menu. It then says Warning: Windows has
detected
a registry/configuation error. Choose, Command prompt
only, and run SCANREG. It then will say The following
file is missing or corrupted C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS.
When this first happened it was after the computer shut
itself down. If I remember correctly I was trying to
figure out why I was having problems connecting to the
Internet. The only other thing I can remember doing
was
I had uninstalled Real Player, but I believe I did
that a
day or two before this happened. I've been searching
the
Internet for a few days and have not found my specific
problem mentioned. Being computer challenged any
advice
would be most appreciated. Thank you.

.

"General failure reading drive C" is very ominous. Try it again.
At a DOS Prompt...

DIR C:\

Do you still get that error?


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Robert Garman" wrote in message
...
| Tried this and I believe anything that was mentioned in
| the links. No luck. Best I got was bad command or file
| name. I also got a general failure reading drive C. Any
| thing else to try? Thank you. Would have responded
| earlier but was out of town.
| -----Original Message-----
| Run SFC.EXE and extract the file from your Windows CD.
|
| System File Checker explained
| ....hopefully in layman's terms.
| http://users.westelcom.com/rogersr/sfc.htm
|
|
| --
|
| Henri Leboeuf
| Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
| ===
|
|
| "Robert Garman"
| wrote in message
| ...
| When I start the computer it goes to the Microsoft
| Windows
| Startup Menu. It then says Warning: Windows has
| detected
| a registry/configuation error. Choose, Command prompt
| only, and run SCANREG. It then will say The following
| file is missing or corrupted C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS.
| When this first happened it was after the computer shut
| itself down. If I remember correctly I was trying to
| figure out why I was having problems connecting to the
| Internet. The only other thing I can remember doing
| was
| I had uninstalled Real Player, but I believe I did
| that a
| day or two before this happened. I've been searching
| the
| Internet for a few days and have not found my specific
| problem mentioned. Being computer challenged any
| advice
| would be most appreciated. Thank you.
|
| .
|

Did as suggested, looks as if two pages of info came up
very quickly, cannot read first page, what I can see
looks like a bunch of files and directories, final lines
read 28 files 21 directories, I can see 21 of the 49 on
the monitor. What next? Thank you.
-----Original Message-----
"General failure reading drive C" is very ominous. Try
it again.
At a DOS Prompt...

DIR C:\

Do you still get that error?


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Robert Garman"
wrote in message
...
| Tried this and I believe anything that was mentioned in
| the links. No luck. Best I got was bad command or file
| name. I also got a general failure reading drive C.
Any
| thing else to try? Thank you. Would have responded
| earlier but was out of town.
| -----Original Message-----
| Run SFC.EXE and extract the file from your Windows CD.
|
| System File Checker explained
| ....hopefully in layman's terms.
| http://users.westelcom.com/rogersr/sfc.htm
|
|
| --
|
| Henri Leboeuf
| Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
| ===
|
|
| "Robert Garman"
| wrote in message
| ...
| When I start the computer it goes to the Microsoft
| Windows
| Startup Menu. It then says Warning: Windows has
| detected
| a registry/configuation error. Choose, Command
prompt
| only, and run SCANREG. It then will say The
following
| file is missing or corrupted C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS.
| When this first happened it was after the computer
shut
| itself down. If I remember correctly I was trying
to
| figure out why I was having problems connecting to
the
| Internet. The only other thing I can remember doing
| was
| I had uninstalled Real Player, but I believe I did
| that a
| day or two before this happened. I've been
searching
| the
| Internet for a few days and have not found my
specific
| problem mentioned. Being computer challenged any
| advice
| would be most appreciated. Thank you.
|
| .
|


.

That is good. At the DOS Prompt, enter...

Scanreg /Opt /Fix

....Can you boot to Windows after that? If not...

Boot to DOS (hold Ctrl as you boot for the Startup Menu, & select
"Command Prompt Only"), and Enter

SCANREG /Restore

It will offer five, one for each of the last five separate days you
booted successfully. Start with the one of the day the problem began, as
these backups of the entire Registry (& System.ini & Win.ini) are done
at boot, not at shut down.

CAVEAT: A /Restore restores settings only. If there was a file change
(other than to System.ini & Win.ini), those cannot be undone this way.
That could be a problem, especially if there was a hardware change or
large un/in-stall since the backup was made.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

wrote in message
...
| Did as suggested, looks as if two pages of info came up
| very quickly, cannot read first page, what I can see
| looks like a bunch of files and directories, final lines
| read 28 files 21 directories, I can see 21 of the 49 on
| the monitor. What next? Thank you.
| -----Original Message-----
| "General failure reading drive C" is very ominous. Try
| it again.
| At a DOS Prompt...
|
| DIR C:\
|
| Do you still get that error?
|
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
| "Robert Garman"
| wrote in message
| ...
| | Tried this and I believe anything that was mentioned in
| | the links. No luck. Best I got was bad command or file
| | name. I also got a general failure reading drive C.
| Any
| | thing else to try? Thank you. Would have responded
| | earlier but was out of town.
| | -----Original Message-----
| | Run SFC.EXE and extract the file from your Windows CD.
| |
| | System File Checker explained
| | ....hopefully in layman's terms.
| | http://users.westelcom.com/rogersr/sfc.htm
| |
| |
| | --
| |
| | Henri Leboeuf
| | Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
| | ===
| |
| |
| | "Robert Garman"
| | wrote in message
| | ...
| | When I start the computer it goes to the Microsoft
| | Windows
| | Startup Menu. It then says Warning: Windows has
| | detected
| | a registry/configuation error. Choose, Command
| prompt
| | only, and run SCANREG. It then will say The
| following
| | file is missing or corrupted C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS.
| | When this first happened it was after the computer
| shut
| | itself down. If I remember correctly I was trying
| to
| | figure out why I was having problems connecting to
| the
| | Internet. The only other thing I can remember doing
| | was
| | I had uninstalled Real Player, but I believe I did
| | that a
| | day or two before this happened. I've been
| searching
| | the
| | Internet for a few days and have not found my
| specific
| | problem mentioned. Being computer challenged any
| | advice
| | would be most appreciated. Thank you.
| |
| | .
| |
|
|
| .
|