I would have thought Derek provided instructions when he emailed the file (and likely he did) No 'installation' involved - if you have the file on floppy, from DOS you may copy it by entering: copy a:\win.com c:\windows (and quit starting new posts over this - as you may have noticed, they get deleted) We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

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jboy Well, in fairness, as poster asked for file I assumed he knew what to do with it, so I just said put it in c:\windows Anyhow, he now has DOS command - thx. DerekW

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I am guessing there must be something else wrong with this computer now when i start it up it starts up to the boot screen with the 98 logo and then suddenlly turns off when i copied the file it went to the blue screen were it says that it is checking drive c for errors and then the sreen went black and it said to hit any key to continue and the it cut off and when i restart it, it keeps cutting off at the boot screen lemon

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Which is what I was afraid of, hence my post #3. Lets go back a step and not make too many assumptions. Did the original problem (cannot find win.com) happen recently? If so, then Shut down and Restart in MS-DOS and type scanreg /restore (hit Return key). If you can find a date before the original problem happened then select that. If this works out then fine but otherewise there are a multitude of other possibilities to consider. DerekW

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Myriad possibilities indeed It might be helpful to confirm that this is 98FE and not SE See if you can force a DOS start by bringing up the startup menu when rebooting (F8) - select 'DOS prompt' - once in DOS enter: ver .. and report back what it says If you can't start in DOS then it's not likely a Windows problem We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

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I ENTERED IN THE VER IN THE DOS AND IT GAVE ME BACK WINDOWS 98 [VERSION 4. 10.2222] lemon

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OH AND I TRIED THE SANREG/RESTORE BUT IT TOLD ME THAT THE RESTORE OPERATION FAILED lemon

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That's Win98SE but I don't think the win.com for that is much different to the one which I sent. You seem to have serious issues and my advice would be to re-install Windows. It is possible that you have a RAM problem. DerekW

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Yeah - I'd thought they might've been different - I suppose I could check Problems for sure (get that CAPS Lock fixed, for a start) We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

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I recall checking way back and as far as I remember the file size was identical, which is a fair (but not definite) indication that only the date has changed. I could send the SE one but it looks like a good old mess up, so I doubt it would help. DerekW

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Seems reasonable - I'm too lazy busy to hunt around for those CABs or hook up my FE machine to check, and likely only the tip of the iceberg anyhow We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

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