Ken wrote:
|A little more research has established that
|the "missing export function" error message
|usually means that a dll file in the system is not a Windows 98 file.
|This seems to indicate that Windows 98 has acquired some WinNT or WinXP files.
|
|I tracked down and replaced all the WinXP files I could find,
|
What did you use as a metric to identify those?

|renaming them in Safe Mode from .DLL to .XP
|and replacing them from my Win98 installation CD.
|But my system then wouldn't boot up.
|
I'll bet that it DID "boot up". 
cache of http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/glossary/gb.html
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1110694568

What it DIDN'T do is "load Windoze" completely.


|It got quite close once, but Explorer crashed at the last.
|
At any point did you consider SFC?  System File Checker does have its caveats 
cache of http://www.rickrogers.org/sfc.htm
but it sounds like you were really up against it in trying to avoid a reinstall.

|There are obviously more XP files lurking about that I haven't been able to find.
|I finally gave up, and restored the troublesome XP files.
|
I'll point to SFC again.

|My solution was to go back to the registry as it existed when I bought the PC,
|which still existed on the hard disk
|as various backup files scattered across the disk (named AUTOEXEC.1ST,
|CONFIG.1ST, MSDOS.SY_, SYSTEM.1ST, USER.1ST, SYSTEM.IN_, and WIN.IN_).
|
Yeah.  That's pretty much the definition of "desperate".
http://www.pccomputernotes.com/newsletter/093000g.htm

|There must, I suppose, be a way to recreate
|the registry entries that support SNDVOL32.EXE
| - but after quite a lot of trying I couldn't find how to do that.
|
With an M$ OS, you sometimes have to see the wisdom of the shorter route:
just bite the bullet and reinstall.  8-(
ISTM you will end up doing just as much work (perhaps more) WRT installed apps
compared to what you would have had to do with a fresh install.
Are you not finding that?


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