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re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 2:02 pm
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Posted by Mullet Moses (1 messages posted)


Im just writing to comment on the fact that this particular suggestion did the trick, however I needed to reinstall Internet Explorer which isnt a big deal Good stuff man, KUDOS!


On Friday, January 23, 2004 at 9:17 am, Don Good wrote:
>Here is a fix that worked for me:
>1) copy shdocvw.dll from a known good Windows 98 System to a CD (It's too large for
>a floppy)
>2) Boot the affected system with a Win98 bootup disk that provides CD access.
>3) Enter the letter of the CD drive at the A:\ prompt ( A:\D: for example) then hit
>enter
>4) At the A:\ prompt copy the shdocvw.dll file to C:\windows\system (type: copy *.dlll
>C:\windows\system) then hit enter
>5) Reboot
>6) Keep the CD for your friends who might ned it later.
>
>Be happy!
>
>


Written in response to:
re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared (Don Good: Friday, January 23, 2004 at 9:17 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared (ben here: Monday, May 17, 2004 at 3:03 pm)

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*re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared (Steve Roby: Fri, Jan 9, 2004, 6:04 am)
-re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared (melanie: Tue, Jan 13, 2004, 6:17 am)
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*re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared (Travis: Thu, Jan 22, 2004, 12:02 pm)
*re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared (v: Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 9:02 pm)
-re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared (Don Good: Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 9:17 am)
-re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared (Mullet Moses: Wed, Jan 28, 2004, 2:02 pm)
*re: Windows 98 Desktop icons disappeared (ben here: Mon, May 17, 2004, 3:03 pm)
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