Rick;
 I would delete all your network adapters, protocols and clients, from
control panel/network,
after noting the current settings, so you can reinstall the same. Make sure
your computer
names are unique for each machine on the network and the workgroup name is
the same for all computers on the network
  You might also boot in safe mode and check for "ghost"/conflicting network
adapters in device manager.
Then reboot and start from scratch. Your windows networking files apparently
didn't install
correctly or not completely. I recognize most of these files you mentioned
as windows networking files.
   For whatever reason this happens occasionally with computers being setup
with windows networking.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Fogel" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCBUILD] Dell Latitude laptop trouble changing os to win98


> I have changed from win nt to win 98. I had some problems but seemed to
get them all worked out till i tried to install a 3com pc card. To let you
know one problem, i have never gotten network neighborhood on my desktop. I
know ineed this. What am i doing wrong here? Now when i star up first i get
this message:Cannot find a device file that maybe needed to run windows or a
windows application.The windows registry or SYSTEM.INI file refers to this
devicefile,but the device file no longer exists.If you deleted this file on
purpose,try uninstalling the associated application using its uninstall or
setup program.

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