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re: Can't install/run Windows 98
Friday, June 29, 2007 at 3:49 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (3932 messages posted)


If you will tick the **preserve your spacing** box before posting,[1]
your submission will look like you intended, not like this:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1183142607


|I have tried at the DOS Command line C: WIN98_74.cab /S and still get the same.
| Jill
|
I think I know what you were trying to do.  What did *you* expect to happen?
(There is no *verb* in the command line you posted--among other problems.)

|[...]the required .DLL file, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\COMCTL32.DLL was not found.
|I have tried editing the system files by reentering Shell=Explorer.exe
|and still don't get anything different.
|
It sounds like you are trying to install Windows
from within a broken installation of Windows.
Perhaps you could describe your technique more fully--starting from the beginning.


[1] **unless you really need it** means
"I am able to format HTML, I understand it is necessary, and I am willing to do that".




Written in response to:
Can't install/run Windows 98 (Jill: Friday, June 29, 2007 at 11:43 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Can't install/run Windows 98 (Jill: Friday, June 29, 2007 at 6:00 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Can't install/run Windows 98 (Jill: Fri, Jun 29, 2007, 11:43 am)
-re: Can't install/run Windows 98 (gewg_: Fri, Jun 29, 2007, 3:49 pm)
-re: Can't install/run Windows 98 (Jill: Fri, Jun 29, 2007, 6:00 pm)
*re: Can't install/run Windows 98 (Steve: Sat, Jun 30, 2007, 4:33 pm)
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