re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' Friday, November 28, 2003 at 4:07 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mike (2 messages posted) James, This same problem after I installed DirectX 8 on Win98. How did you uninstall DirectX 8? Thanks. On Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 10:53 pm, James wrote: > >Hi Ryan, > >Your link below is OK for Windows 2000 or XP but this does not fix Win98 issues. > You can't run a command unless you change from the 'explorer' shell to 'winfile' >or 'progman' shells in the system.ini. > >All, >I found many others experiencing this problem right after installing DirectX. In >more than a few cases it was DirectX 8.1 under Win98. > >I tried uninstalling this to no avail. Registry changes don't look to be the culprit >as I went back two vervions from DOS. I even copied a new Explorer.exe shell from >my Win98 CAB with no luck. > >I will let you know how I go. Good post from Carol in this thread too. > >Cheers > >James Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (James: Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 10:53 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Pat: Sunday, February 22, 2004 at 5:32 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ryan Mulatz: Tue, May 27, 2003, 8:13 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Pappy: Tue, May 27, 2003, 8:21 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (James: Sat, Jun 21, 2003, 10:53 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (ALEX: Wed, Aug 27, 2003, 5:37 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Mike: Fri, Nov 28, 2003, 4:07 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Pat: Sun, Feb 22, 2004, 5:32 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum