Ed, just today I was reading a problem sent in to a computer question and answers column. He stated his computer starts the boot sequence and then jumps straight to "it is now safe to turn off your computer". His OS was Win95.The response from the support was, and I quote, what you have is a missing or damaged VMM32.VXD or WINNIT.EXE file. There are two options, first and easiest is to rename WINNIT.EXE to WINNIT.OLD at a DOS Prompt and extract a new file from the Windows CD to it's correct location. If this does not work then the VMM32.VXD file must be renamed to VMM32.OLD and then run Windows set-up again to replace the file. Apparently this file cannot be simply extracted from the Windows CD to replace the renamed one. I could be wrong about that and it might be worth trying first before running set-up again. If nobody else can offer a different solution it may be the way to go. Hope I have been of some help. Alan Priol From the Blue Mountains of NSW Australia. Yesterday when I attempted to boot up,just after the WIN98 logo appeared the screen turned black and white and a message appeared which stated to wit: unpacking vmm32.vxd C:\windows\system\vmm32\vmm32.vxd failed packing vmm32.vxd library invalid or wrong version "blinking cursor for about three minutes and, then it continues to boot up into win98se. What would this indicate to anyone who has knowledge of this. vmm32.vxd is a virtual device driver, is it not? Thanks for any and all help on this one. Ed Bogert Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com