Run the SYSEDIT program.

This will show you all of your config files.

Click on the window for SYSTEM.INI and go up to the top and click on
search.  Put in the file or driver (in your case vcd) and find the line.
Now REM the line out.  Try re-booting and it should work.

Reason this is probably happening is that an older device driver needed to
be loaded from system.ini and now Windows 98 detected it and is loading
it's own driver for the device.

Also remember that a device is not necessarily a physical device.  A lot of
programs run as devices (HIMEM.SYS for example)

Any more questions, feel free to e-mail.

-Rob


At 10:11 PM 3/9/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I recently upgraded to Win98 (v 4.10.1998) from Win95 and now get the
>following message:
>
>"A device has been specified more than once in the SYSTEM.INI files, or
>a device specified in SYSTEM.INI conflicts with a device which is being
>loaded by an MS-DOS device driver or application or a device loaded from
>the registry file. Remove the duplicate entry from the SYSTEM.INI file,
>and then restart Windows."
>
>        Duplicated device: vcd
>        Press a key to continue
>
>I can 'press a key and continue' but this message continues to appear at
>startup. Does anyone have an idea as to what is happening or guide me to
>fix this issue?
>
>Erik Hundrieser
>
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