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In article , dolly{at}barkto.com says...
> Had a coworker install something on his personal laptop using Win98. I've
> never touched Win98, so I don't know much, and we don't allow it here. His
> PC locked up and now when he boots, he gets an Explorer error, and an error
> indicating a registry problem.
>
> We can't get it to boot now.
>
> Where does Win98 hide its registry? He's a clerk, not a tech, and we have no
> one here who's Win 98 aware.
>
> Ideas?
>
>
>
I pegion holed this way back when...: Restore 98 to Factory State:
Coming from the "Sweating Bullets" department, Lockergnomie
Nathan Riley is dropping to DOS. For the most part, your system should be
stable. I mean, if it was always in shambles, you would have reinstalled
Windows by now. Don't have time? Don't wanna lose any of your settings or
software? Supposedly, there's a command line option that'll get you back on
your feet in no time. "Boot up your PC with a Windows 98 boot disk,
pop in your Windows 98 CD, and once you're at the command prompt, type your
CD-ROM drive letter immediately followed by a colon. So, if your CD was set
to "D" -- you'd enter D: and then hit ENTER. At this point,
you'll type the following command: SETUP /pf (exactly as shown). This
switch will restore all of Windows' critical files to their "factory
state," and in 99% of situations (according to this Gnomie), doing
this will fix whatever problems you were having in Windows 98
--
l'bodacious - Nothing is perfect between conception and death but it works. HTH

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