98SE machine with problems

I am working on 98SE machines at the school that I work at and yes I
finally do not have to work retail at Target. Thank Goodness - after 7+
years I had had enough of retail and the constant statement of whether
sales had been made at the end of each evening. Of course I wanted to
ask Microsoft a quick question but they said that 98SE was not supported
anymore and did not listen to my plea that it was for a school that had
limited technology funds.

So, I am now asking this newsgroup for advice on one machine. The
computer loads up mostly fine after I have worked on it but it is
missing a file called nwlink.vxd. The operating system starts to load
and it says this file is missing in the System.Ini. I was wondering if
I load the Windows Security Update cd from February 2004 if this will
correct the problem or if another method is needed. Thanks in advance
for comments and yes I finally get to work with older computers like
98SE and newer ones with XP Professional and children which are my two
great joys in life. all this study has paid off -- grin

Dan wrote in
:

I am working on 98SE machines at the school that I work at
and yes I finally do not have to work retail at Target.
Thank Goodness - after 7+ years I had had enough of retail
and the constant statement of whether sales had been made
at the end of each evening. Of course I wanted to ask
Microsoft a quick question but they said that 98SE was not
supported anymore and did not listen to my plea that it was
for a school that had limited technology funds.

So, I am now asking this newsgroup for advice on one
machine. The computer loads up mostly fine after I have
worked on it but it is missing a file called nwlink.vxd.
The operating system starts to load and it says this file
is missing in the System.Ini. I was wondering if I load
the Windows Security Update cd from February 2004 if this
will correct the problem or if another method is needed.
Thanks in advance for comments and yes I finally get to
work with older computers like 98SE and newer ones with XP
Professional and children which are my two great joys in
life. all this study has paid off -- grin


All I can tell you is that there is no such file in the original
98SE distr. and if you have a firewall, antivirus, and don't use
IE/OE or Office, you don't need any updates. Ignore the message,
or add the line to system.ini (load=nwlink.vxd)and the message
MAY stop appearing (see how little I know?).

Or you could DL and install the file:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;273727

Since the computers are in a school, no matter what you do, you
will be removing viruses and trojans all the time, so why even
bother with largely pointless updates?

Also, if you want to get rid of the message, and several
computers are virtually identical, just make a C drive image and
copy it to the machine in question. Actually, considering what I
mentioned in the previous paragraph, you might be wise to do
that on one machine anyway, AFTER YOU SET IT UP JUST RIGHT. A
lot easier than twiddling around with every machine anytime
something goes wrong.

Just make sure they are set up so all the kids' work goes on
another partition.

Dan wrote:

So, I am now asking this newsgroup for advice on one machine. The
computer loads up mostly fine after I have worked on it but it is
missing a file called nwlink.vxd. The operating system starts to load
and it says this file is missing in the System.Ini. I was wondering if
I load the Windows Security Update cd from February 2004 if this will
correct the problem or if another method is needed. Thanks in advance
for comments and yes I finally get to work with older computers like
98SE and newer ones with XP Professional and children which are my two
great joys in life. all this study has paid off -- grin

If it corrects your problem or not i can't say, but you can try just
running [273727usa8.exe](2001-01-05_DS), that is present on the
'Security Update CD' as that includes an updated version of that file
[NWLink.vxd]. ... if you for some reason don't want to install the other
security updates.

2001-01-05 Win98FE & Win98SE Update(Q273727) Security(ms00-073)
Denial of Service Possible on an IPX/SPX Protocol Using the Name
Management Port
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/273727/
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-073.mspx

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On 06 Sep 2006 02:34:04 GMT, thanatoid put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Dan wrote in
:

I am working on 98SE machines at the school ...

So, I am now asking this newsgroup for advice on one
machine. The computer loads up mostly fine after I have
worked on it but it is missing a file called nwlink.vxd.

All I can tell you is that there is no such file in the original
98SE distr. ...

My layout1.inf file tells me that nwlink.vxd exists in net9.cab.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Totally incorrect:
Net9.cab
nwlink.vxd 51,010 4/23/1999 10:22:00p

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375


thanatoid wrote:
Dan wrote in
:

I am working on 98SE machines at the school that I work at
and yes I finally do not have to work retail at Target.
Thank Goodness - after 7+ years I had had enough of retail
and the constant statement of whether sales had been made
at the end of each evening. Of course I wanted to ask
Microsoft a quick question but they said that 98SE was not
supported anymore and did not listen to my plea that it was
for a school that had limited technology funds.

So, I am now asking this newsgroup for advice on one
machine. The computer loads up mostly fine after I have
worked on it but it is missing a file called nwlink.vxd.
The operating system starts to load and it says this file
is missing in the System.Ini. I was wondering if I load
the Windows Security Update cd from February 2004 if this
will correct the problem or if another method is needed.
Thanks in advance for comments and yes I finally get to
work with older computers like 98SE and newer ones with XP
Professional and children which are my two great joys in
life. all this study has paid off -- grin


All I can tell you is that there is no such file in the original
98SE distr. and if you have a firewall, antivirus, and don't use
IE/OE or Office, you don't need any updates. Ignore the message,
or add the line to system.ini (load=nwlink.vxd)and the message
MAY stop appearing (see how little I know?).

Or you could DL and install the file:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;273727

Since the computers are in a school, no matter what you do, you
will be removing viruses and trojans all the time, so why even
bother with largely pointless updates?

Also, if you want to get rid of the message, and several
computers are virtually identical, just make a C drive image and
copy it to the machine in question. Actually, considering what I
mentioned in the previous paragraph, you might be wise to do
that on one machine anyway, AFTER YOU SET IT UP JUST RIGHT. A
lot easier than twiddling around with every machine anytime
something goes wrong.

Just make sure they are set up so all the kids' work goes on
another partition.

Missing .vxd files:
Error Message: Cannot Find a Device File That May Be Needed to Run Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q132008

Err Msg: Cannot Find a Device File That May Be Needed to Run...
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q166832

"Unable to Load the Dynamic Link Library" Error Message When You Install Drivers
or Utilities
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q302590

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375


Dan wrote:
I am working on 98SE machines at the school that I work at and yes I
finally do not have to work retail at Target. Thank Goodness - after 7+
years I had had enough of retail and the constant statement of whether
sales had been made at the end of each evening. Of course I wanted to
ask Microsoft a quick question but they said that 98SE was not supported
anymore and did not listen to my plea that it was for a school that had
limited technology funds.

So, I am now asking this newsgroup for advice on one machine. The
computer loads up mostly fine after I have worked on it but it is
missing a file called nwlink.vxd. The operating system starts to load
and it says this file is missing in the System.Ini. I was wondering if
I load the Windows Security Update cd from February 2004 if this will
correct the problem or if another method is needed. Thanks in advance
for comments and yes I finally get to work with older computers like
98SE and newer ones with XP Professional and children which are my two
great joys in life. all this study has paid off -- grin

Brian A. wrote:
Totally incorrect:
Net9.cab
nwlink.vxd 51,010 4/23/1999 10:22:00p


Thanks Brian and Frank. I really appreciate the posts.

Brian A. wrote:
Missing .vxd files:
Error Message: Cannot Find a Device File That May Be Needed to Run Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q132008

Err Msg: Cannot Find a Device File That May Be Needed to Run...
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q166832

"Unable to Load the Dynamic Link Library" Error Message When You Install
Drivers or Utilities
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q302590


Thanks again, Brian and I will check if any of these articles apply to
the situation.

"Brian A." gonefish'n@afarawaylake wrote in
:

Totally incorrect:
Net9.cab
nwlink.vxd 51,010 4/23/1999 10:22:00p


I forgot that I have W98SE Lite installed on a non-internet/non-
network machine therefore all such files are not there by my
choice.

A also have a backup directory of all the W98SE files, but
again, apparently nothing from net*.cab's, or something to that
effect. It's been a while.

Anyway, I provided the link to the "updated/patched" (shouldn't
MS trademark those words?) file in the same post.

Thank you for pointing out my unforgivable mistake anyway.

.... et al. wrote:
Dan wrote:

So, I am now asking this newsgroup for advice on one machine. The
computer loads up mostly fine after I have worked on it but it is
missing a file called nwlink.vxd. The operating system starts to load
and it says this file is missing in the System.Ini. I was wondering if
I load the Windows Security Update cd from February 2004 if this will
correct the problem or if another method is needed. Thanks in advance
for comments and yes I finally get to work with older computers like
98SE and newer ones with XP Professional and children which are my two
great joys in life. all this study has paid off -- grin

If it corrects your problem or not i can't say, but you can try just
running [273727usa8.exe](2001-01-05_DS), that is present on the
'Security Update CD' as that includes an updated version of that file
[NWLink.vxd]. ... if you for some reason don't want to install the other
security updates.

2001-01-05 Win98FE & Win98SE Update(Q273727) Security(ms00-073)
Denial of Service Possible on an IPX/SPX Protocol Using the Name
Management Port
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/273727/
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-073.mspx


The security update cd did correct the problem. Currently, I am working
on 3 98SE computers and 1 is running well while the other 2 still need work.