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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Lost win.ini
No Wonder User - Nov 13, 1998 - 9:11 pm
KNOWLEDGE LEVEL: Beginner
PROBLEM: Software
COMPUTER TYPE: HP Pavilion 8240
MODEL: Pentium with MMX
RAM: 32meg
OS VERSION: Windows 98
SERVICE PACK:
DESCRIPTION:
Somehow the Win.INI file got corrupted or deleted. Anythime I am starting my computer a warning appears saying that I have to recover the win.ini or the sys.ini but I do not know how. Do I have to uninstall Windows 98, reinstall windows 95 and finally reinstall windows 98. Please help. I appreciate very much your help.adam irski
PROBLEM: Software
COMPUTER TYPE: HP Pavilion 8240
MODEL: Pentium with MMX
RAM: 32meg
OS VERSION: Windows 98
SERVICE PACK:
DESCRIPTION:
Somehow the Win.INI file got corrupted or deleted. Anythime I am starting my computer a warning appears saying that I have to recover the win.ini or the sys.ini but I do not know how. Do I have to uninstall Windows 98, reinstall windows 95 and finally reinstall windows 98. Please help. I appreciate very much your help.adam irski
No Wonder Tech - Nov 14, 1998 - 4:25 pm
Adam:
Depending on how long you have had Win '98 installed, all you have to do is the following.......
1) Go to Start, Find, Files or Folders,
2) Type win.* and make sure that you are searching the C: drive with All subdirectories checked. Then push the find button.
3) You should come up with a couple of files. win.com (ignore this win.com file) and win.ini being two of them. You should also have a couple more win files like win.001 win.bak .. etc. All around 6kb-15kb. Find the file that has the most currect date. Rename win.ini to something like win.oop (doesn't not matter what you name the last three letters....just don't give it the same name as another in the list). Rename the most currect win.* file to win.ini . Reboot the computer and see what happens.
Sincerely,
James Kelley
Depending on how long you have had Win '98 installed, all you have to do is the following.......
1) Go to Start, Find, Files or Folders,
2) Type win.* and make sure that you are searching the C: drive with All subdirectories checked. Then push the find button.
3) You should come up with a couple of files. win.com (ignore this win.com file) and win.ini being two of them. You should also have a couple more win files like win.001 win.bak .. etc. All around 6kb-15kb. Find the file that has the most currect date. Rename win.ini to something like win.oop (doesn't not matter what you name the last three letters....just don't give it the same name as another in the list). Rename the most currect win.* file to win.ini . Reboot the computer and see what happens.
Sincerely,
James Kelley
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