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"Can't find VXD" errors
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"I regularly get e-mail from people who explain that they've got a Windows 95 or 98 system, and the printer doesn't work right, and the computer gives
them three "Can't find VXD" errors during startup, and all of the icon colours are screwed up and don't come right even when they delete shelliconcache from the Windows directory, and their games all crash after
the first three minutes, and the thing smells funny and doesn't cast a shadow any more.
My advice to these people is, usually, "Reinstall Windows". I am, in this respect, approximately 85% qualified to be a Microsoft phone support person.
All of us windswept and interesting IT professionals know the tricks involved in curing Microsoft bit rot with extreme prejudice, but I've had a lot of correspondence from people who apparently have something they call a
"life", and don't know this stuff. Hence, a Step By Step column on the subject of Win95/98 reinstalling."
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FULL STORY @
DANSDATA
(http://www.dansdata.com/sbs30.htm)
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