I got the shock of my life from the microsoft update site. Always keep your computer up to date they say. So i always visit the update site and apply all the patches i find. i saw an update for my network card and updated it. i restarted my computer only to get a shock. The computer told me that a file need to run windows was missing. it referred to a line in system.ini, that a file was missing or corrupt and i had to resinstall or replace this file. windows completed loading on pressing a key, but then i found the network card no longer worked. Because i access the internet through someone else's computer on the network, i couldn't repair the error easily. i got my computer off someone else who didn't give me anyhing in terms of software. i removed the device in device manager restarted the computer and yes it did find it, but only seemed to put the same files back, and so the network card still wasn't working. i wanted to put put the default driver that was dated 1999, but it wasn't stored on the computer in the windows setup files or anywhere else. The computer kept asking me for a third party diskette that i never had. Eventually i solved this problem by going to the manufacturer's website and downloading the file on the network computer. But it all took about two hours and what a shock! Who would have thought that microsoft update site would reccommend an update for your computer that isn't for your computer. It was probably a close match, but not exact. i was absolutely out of my mind with worry, that i had crashed my computer and even though i hadn't i wasn't sure i could fix it. we aren't supposed to be doing this knd of thing with our computers, but i thought it was the right thing to do, to keep the computer up to date. Beware!!

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If the un-named file was dated 1999 then chances are it was on your W98SE CD and you could have used sfc from the Run box to restore it (extract one file feature). Original W98SE files are dated April 23rd 1999. DerekW

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The obvious soluion is to go into SAFE MODE and remove the offending item from Device Manger and Network Neighbourhood then undertake a Repair Install....

... perhaps the shock overcame all reason (and has had long lasting effects) 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