that is strange, if you put the contents of all the floppies it should be there, unless one or more floppies are corrupt. by the way winhelp.ex_ is not a critical file. i think there is an option while running setup to skip it.when setup complains you click details and then click skip file if i remember right. only problem after installation will be that you will not have the help menu item functioning for any of the programs. if you post the version of win 3.x you are installing (workgorups or win3.1) i might be able to email the file to you. DON'T post your email address, i can get it by double clicking your name i donot wish to sign

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Personally i was annoyed because i had the same problem as you longman2006 here's my long winded way of solving the problem :P. I got over this by first making a copy of the first loppy disk for DOS6.22, i then added cdrom drivers and edited autoexec.bat and removed setup from there. I then collected the images i made of my win3.1,win2.03,win3.11WFW,win1.01,win1.03 and Win3.0 and added them to a folder whgich i would burn to a cd. I left mine in seperate folders however labeld Disk1-Disk2 etc. Next i collected a load of software i would be neding in the future (Laptop drivers, mouse drivers bNIC drivers, TCP/IP stack and stuff for win9x). Next i installed DOS6.22 with standard settings and restarted the comp. I installed WinME then (had usb support for my pen drive without externeal drivers) made a folder called DOS, added the files and folders contained within dos to this. Copied those over to the cd. Burnt the cdusing nero and made it bootable by choosing to read the custom floppy. Then when ever the system starts up on a laptop etc i make the system bootable using the sys c: (c being the hard drive) and then copying all the files and folders from the dos folder onmto the hard drive. Restart use the label command to call the drive MS-DOS_6 and bam a fully working dos system, simply adding the cd rom drivers and restarting then i install which ever version i need of windows tho i usually instal 3.1. Long way of doing it and not strictly legal but i was getting extremely annoyued of having to hunt down my floppy disks and drivers and software as most were on rewritables now there all on one cdr :P.

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I forgot to say however, that I installed Dos on another machine that I have, which I use for dos. But using virtual pc software might work i may try that later when i get home :P.

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lupin3rd may be correct, but i have never had any problem installing win 3.1, by copying setup files to a single directory i donot wish to sign

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thanks for everything guys, but i found a way to skip the file by creating a "dummy file" called winhelp.ex_ in edit.com and then running setup and it worked perfectly but i think i am going to just install winNT 4.0 and install vmware to use it in a virtual machine instead of on the actual comp, this way i can use all my win32 apps and play all my dos games and wtv thx though for everything i really appreciate all of your help and thx once again Darin luckie

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You should copy all diskettes into a single directory, eg \win311 on your cdrom base. The files like "disk1" etc are required by the installation. You can do several things here, if you don't want 11 small files. You could edit setup.inf, and do search and replace the string "7:" by eg "3:". Then, you can delete the source line "disk7" and the relevant file disk7. W The dream you dream alone is only a dream, The dream we dream together is reality.

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