The endless ennui of windoze goes on:

I defragged using the proceedures in the windowstrouble website - also
ran
SFC... that revealed possible "Windows/System" file corrupted - oh
great....

Apparently my OEM System CDR puts "CABS" in a subdirectory, so you can
extract files to fix bad ones from there... did that for Kernel32.dll,
Taskmon.exe
(the latter gave a Kernel32.dll error), and Vmm32.vxd, for good luck...

no change.

Also deleted the Win386.swp swap file and emptied the temp directory...

no luck.

But the computer still works, so that is good.

The windowstrouble website is good... read most of it.

It seems to me that the ONLY way to run windows98 is to have a SEPARATE
physical drive for the OS, and a large drive for everything else. Then
set up your
file system so that there are separate folders in one place with all the
nice zipped
downloads, and in one place with all the setup files neatly arrayed...
NOT like the
stupid thing comes from the factory... dumb and dumber...

Looks like I'll have to spend a few days doing this... of course there
is tons of interminable
and indeterminable files dumped hither and yon by all sorts of things
(what is all this
chaff??)

I think the windowstrouble site gave a way to reinstall the system and
keep your
preferences - wouldn't that be nice. Oddly, on a mac it is all
transparent - or it was
last time I looked. Isn't MS-DOS based software just GREAT!!

Anyone have any other ideas, before I go forward and have to re-install
my entire
(so-called) system??

            _-_-bear


BEARlabs wrote:

>
>
> "Bob H." wrote:
>
>> Might be a faulty install file (redownload needed) as Pabs suggests;
>> but just in case, you should check your
>> system out there in the usual manner, doing a scandisk and defrag.
>
> Ummm... problem there... defrag does not seem to want to work -
> apparently it stops if there is anything
> writing to the disc, and *something* seems to make the disc lite
> "beep" every 15 secs or so, I have no idea
> how to keep this from happening - yes all windows are closed. Is there
> any way to *determine* what is
> talking to the disc?? Nor do I know if this is the problem.
>
> A just aquired copy of Norton Utilities 2001 also does not install -
> with the SAME error message!
> (not looking good now, eh?)
>
> Also, while the windows fix area of the CD runs fine from the CD
> (wierd isn't it), "Disk Doctor" doesn't
> get going since it too stops if there is a write to the disc, and yes
> there seems to be a write to the disc!!
> (you'd think they'd write a utility to tell the user what's doing
> it...)
>
>
>
>> Also try Start|Run... SFC  to do a system
>
> What is SFC?? (i presume "system file check") but what is it called,
> and how is it controlled?
>
> Scandisc runs "regularly" on this computer, since often on shutdown
> and then a subsequent start, it
> seems to think that it wasn't shut down right... the OS was replaced
> from the CD once after it got
> corrupted, early on, (geez, isn't there a way to replace all or part
> of the OS, like on a Mac without
> scrubbing the friggin disc??) [arrrgh!] and it ran the same way before
> and after...
>
>>
>> file check.  The problem could be in your computer as you said.
>> Memory swapping trouble during install
>> execution or something.
>> I just found a great web page for help on the "kernel":
>> http://www.windowstrouble.com/kernel32dll.shtml
>
> I'll check this...
>
>>
>>
>> Bob
>
> --
>              _-_-   BEAR Labs
>  "Custom Handcrafted Audio Components & Cables"
>

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