Author: Mike S.
Date: 18:56:07 03/19/04
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On March 19, 2004 at 15:57:53, Art Basham wrote: >Will give it some thought! >Thanks again guys! (Sorry, I'm a bit late answering this.) I had corrupted system files then and when on another computer, which is somewhat unstable. There's no need to reinstall Windows in this case! When you can still boot Windows (and I guess you can if when you've written the message on the same computer :-), you can simply extrakt the file again from a Windows CAB file using a Windows function. It's a bit hidden, like many useful things in Windows. Choose "run program" (or what it's called in english; I don't know) from the start menu and type msconfig This little program offers a button called something like "extract system file" among other functions. With that, you can extract the missing file again from the CAB files. Either from the Windows CD you've installed from, or if it's a system with preinstalled Windows, you'll probably have the CABs in a (hidden?) directory on HD already. I just hope the missing file isn't necessary to run msconfig :-)) But it could be done using the extract command in a console window, too even if msconfig doesn't work. But that is a bit tricky because you'd have to know the correct syntax, know the path to the CABs etc. AFAIK the extract command is available with a Win98 start disk, too. Regards, M.Scheidl
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