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Date: | Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:37:32 -0500 |
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> Some questions from a relative novice here, so please bear with me.
> I'm trying to deal with a Win95a box right now that boots to a Windows
> desktop (no icons), then takes about 10 minutes before displaying 2
> messages. They are: "A required .dll file, WS2_32.dll, was not
> found" and
> "Could not load or run 'wininit.exe' specified in the win.ini file. Make
> sure the file exists on your computer or remove the reference to it in the
> win.ini file." After this, icons appear, but system runs so slow as to be
> unusable. Runs fine in safe mode. I do not have a 95a disk to try
> installing over the O/S with; the only 95 disk I have says "With USB
> support" (95b?). I have found the 'winint.exe' file in the C:\windows
> directory, as well as 'wininit.bak'. My next step will be to reformat,
> unless anyone has some suggestions.
> All comments or advice will be greatly appreciated. Please let
> me know if I
> need to supply further information.
Run a virus scan. There are "distributed" viruses out there that do
this sort of thing, they replace a program that is always run at boot up
with a distributed.net client that runs as a service. This can kill any
performance. TTYL
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