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win.exe disaster
Name: bode Date: August 9, 2004 at 18:16:42 Pacific OS: Win98se CPU/Ram: Pen III 733 512MB
Comment:
Half sleeping and trying to remove a virus....not a good mix.
I've just deleted the WIN.exe / RUNDLL.exe files from my computer and windows will not load reporting that win.com is missing.
I can't find any rescue discs due to moving house soon.
So can anyone help restore my pc without losing any info?
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: August 9, 2004 at 18:35:38 Pacific
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Reply:
There shouldn't be a win.exe file. I just sent you win.com and rundll.exe.
They're zipped so extract them with something like winzip. Extract them to a blank floppy disk. Then start up the problem computer. Before the OS starts to load, start tapping the F8 key. A menu should come up. Choose 'command prompt only'. At the c:\> prompt put the disk with the extracted files in the a: drive and type:
copy a:\*.* c:\windows
and enter. When they're copied take the disk out and see if it'll boot normally.
Response Number 2
Name: Derek Date: August 9, 2004 at 18:41:06 Pacific
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Reply:
There's a ritual for win.com (on W98SE CD as Win.cnf and you rename it to .com)
To save a lot of chatter, I'll email both W98SE files:
Win.com Rundll.exe
They go in c:\windows
Derek.W
Response Number 3
Name: bode Date: August 10, 2004 at 07:21:16 Pacific
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Reply:
Aahh the sweet sound of Windows start up.
Cheers for the command line DAVEINCAPS.
Win.com and rundll installed just fine.
Response Number 4
Name: Derek Date: August 10, 2004 at 13:14:50 Pacific
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Reply:
.... looks like we overlapped Dave.
Derek.W
Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: August 10, 2004 at 16:16:37 Pacific
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Reply:
Yeah, I guess we were both thinking along the same lines.
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