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re: Oops......
Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 1:12 pm
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Posted by isabel (1 messages posted)


Question: I had same problem and followed your instructions re going into DOS mode and copying from desktop. I keep getting file not found, yet when I type in seq at the DOS prompt ddeml.dll appears as in the desktop folder...? Any suggestions?


On Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 7:47 am, shawn wrote:
>Much easier solution:
>
>1. go to MSIE and type in this link and hit enter: http://www.dictacomm.com/Win_Dll/98_2nd/dfiles/ddemlzip_download.htm
>
>It will ask to download ddeml.zip. Save it on to your desktop. (Make sure you save
>it on to your desktop).
>Now unzip it using winzip. If you do not have winzip download a shared version here:
>http://www.winzip.com/
>
>2. Go to Start menu -> shutdown -> restart in MSDOS mode
>
>3. after 20 seconds (roughly) you have a blank screen with a prompt: C:\WINDOWS>
>
>4. Type in the following after the ">" symbol:
>TYPE: "CD Desktop"
>
>now hit ENTER
>
>TYPE: "COPY ddeml.dll ..\system\ddeml.dll"
>
>now hit ENTER
>
>5. It will say it copied it, now type the following:
>
>TYPE: "exit"
>
>now hit ENTER
>
>6. it will now restart in windows but it should not give that error anymore.
>
>THE END!
>
>Instead if you want to try re-installing windows have fun spending hours:)
>
>


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re: Oops...... (shawn: Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 7:47 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Having trouble with Win 98 DDEML.dll system file (Les: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 1:44 pm)
-re: Having trouble with Win 98 DDEML.dll system file (JmC: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 2:19 pm)
*re: Having trouble with Win 98 DDEML.dll system file (JmC: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 7:04 pm)
-Oops...... (JmC: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 7:10 pm)
-re: Oops...... (shawn: Wed, May 5, 2004, 7:47 am)
*re: Oops...... (isabel: Thu, May 6, 2004, 1:12 pm)
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