What's that magical program?

VIKTOR2020 · Post by **VIKTOR2020** » Sun Apr 08, 2001 11:55 am

Someone on this board introduced me to a wonderful program that's built into Win98 to check your OS and report on anything that's amiss. Can someone tell me what it is? It begins "ms....." I ran into the same missing files on my reinstall of Win98 that I did on the first install, you know the ones: vnetsup.vxd, dhcpcsvc.dll, vnetbiol.vxd, etc. Now my OS won't start even in safe mode, so I'm having to boot from my 98 start up floppy and transfer files manually from the CD to windows/system.

g-c0de · Post by **g-c0de** » Sun Apr 08, 2001 1:34 pm

msconfig

VIKTOR2020 · Post by **VIKTOR2020** » Sun Apr 08, 2001 5:32 pm

I used msconfig and got the three files that were missing transferred from the CD to Windows/System. However, I still get the error message that msnp32.dll isn't available and that Mocrosoft Networking also isn't available. I recall that I had to get the registry to recognize msnp32.dll once before. Anyone know what program does that?

smaier69 · Post by **smaier69** » Sun Apr 08, 2001 5:48 pm

the first thing i would do would be to boot up with your win98 startup disk, and run Scandisk (type "SCANDISK" at the "A:\" prompt) and tell it to do a full surface scan.

if you have developed bad sectors on your hdd since the last full surface scan was done, the data that is in/on a bad sector will be corrupt and/or inaccessible, and windows or whatever OS will not know the sectros are bad and write data to them. when you do a surface scan, the bad sectors are located and made inaccessible from your boot record/sector so your OS will not write data to them.

this probably wont help you get into your current windows install, but it will assure you the next time you do install windows, it wont make the same mistake twice (writing data to bad sectors).

jedcstl · Post by **jedcstl** » Mon Apr 09, 2001 1:20 am

Is it msinfo32 you are looking for?

Ed

klicker · Post by **klicker** » Sat Apr 14, 2001 9:53 pm

make sure your hd is good than go to accessories\system information\tools & use system file checker to confirm all system files are in good shape. make sure in settings the box is checked for deleted & changed files.

Storm90 · Post by **Storm90** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 12:58 am

If Iam right that dll belongs to the explorer. Try running a repair on the explorer. If that dose not work and the explorer starts acting up you may have to reinstall it. Or if you just updated the explorer. This could be the old dll used by it. So it won't matter that you can not replace it. Hope this helps you.

onetrueday · Post by **onetrueday** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 2:31 am

Here come super duper onetrueday to save the day!! The program you're looking for is run: sfc

thats system file checker.

careful how you use it though

billyman · Post by **billyman** » Sat Apr 21, 2001 12:35 am

VIKTOR2020,

If your computer is still looking for the msnp32.dll, try this.

Do a search for msnp32, when you find it, it likely will have a different extension (like .000, .old, .bak), rename it to msnp32.dll and that should clear you up.

Storm90 · Post by **Storm90** » Mon Apr 23, 2001 12:16 am

Have you tried rebuilding the MIcrosoftNetwork and see if it reinstall the dills you are missing. The only other way I know of if it is on your os cd. Is to search the cabs on the cd till you find it. Then extra it to your system files. GoodLuck!

VIKTOR2020 · Post by **VIKTOR2020** » Mon Apr 23, 2001 8:39 am

Thanks for your help and suggestions. Msconfig is the program I was looking for and it did the trick.

g-c0de · Post by **g-c0de** » Mon Apr 23, 2001 8:59 am

Originally posted by VIKTOR2020:
I used msconfig and got the three files that were missing transferred from the CD to Windows/System. However, I still get the error message that msnp32.dll isn't available and that Mocrosoft Networking also isn't available. I recall that I had to get the registry to recognize msnp32.dll once before. Anyone know what program does that?

i told you msconfig, i thought you tried it and didnt work, oh well atleast the problem is fixed