How about with the windows cd in the cdrom ,go to start/run and type in, SFC
Well, thank you caperjack! By running SFC, it found setupx.dll may have
been corrupted, so I replaced it. And, while I was there, I replaced
browseui.dll and shdocvw.dll (that file kept being mentioned in many of
the discussions). Then, I rebooted and nothing worked... all I got was
the background color on the screen. So, I booted to DOS with my
emergency startup disk and ran the setup from my Windows 98 CD
(from DOS). It seemed to do a more thorough job from there. After
it was done and rebooted to Windows ("Starting Windows for the first time"),
everything worked again! The icons were in the Quick Launch toolbar and
my Start button functioned properly.
It did re-install Internet Explorer 5... I had been at the latest version of
6 for quite a while. But, the system if fixed!!
Thanks to both of you for your help. It's good that people are so kind and
generous. I hope to be able to do the same for someone, someday.
And, thanks to this website and the folk(s) who run it, for making this all possible... it's a REAL service.
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