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missing autorun.exe
Name: melodie Date: February 14, 2000 at 20:13:29 Pacific
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Can anyone help me???? I had to do a quick restore on my computer to which i had previously installed win98 upgrade after doing the quick restore I was back to win95 and was attempting to reinstall 98 when the program stopped I now only have win95 but my cd drive will no longer run any programs only music cd's whenever i try to reinstall a software program i get a message stating windows cannot locate autorun.exe which is needed to run anything that has a "file" on it. Is there a way to get this back or does it sound like i need to take this baby in for servicing thanx to any and all advice given
Name: Al Date: February 14, 2000 at 20:32:06 Pacific
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Melodie, It sounds like you need to run a virus scan on this baby as quickly as possible. Al
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Response Number 2
Name: ergmiester Date: February 14, 2000 at 20:35:28 Pacific
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To get around autorun, use windows explorer program
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Response Number 3
Name: Zvezda Date: February 14, 2000 at 20:38:47 Pacific
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Melodie You stated that your 98reinstall stopped or aborted correct? insert the uprade cdrom into drive and do it manually go through win explore and look for file types like setup.exe or .bat types I do not have upgrade cdrom or I could be more helpful as to which. This might be all it needs!
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Response Number 4
Name: GMAGDNA Date: February 14, 2000 at 23:48:18 Pacific
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It is setup.exe and is the same for the full version of any Win9x or upgrade.
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Response Number 5
Name: Pål.Bergquist Date: January 9, 2001 at 04:18:30 Pacific
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Can someone help me to find autorun.exe I can`t find it
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Response Number 6
Name: Josh Date: April 26, 2001 at 17:49:47 Pacific
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This is a simple error to fix. All you do is right click on your hard drive and press open. Look for autorun.inf and DELETE IT! It is meant just to be on your cd-rom drives. Then go back to the "my computer" window right click and press refresh. Then All will be well.
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