OK, this is totally off-topic, but you all are an amazing group of pc 
wizards, and I am sure you can put me on the right track.

An acquaintance of mine is on a limited fixed income, and has an ancient 
PC with a hard drive which is almost completely full. His OS is Windows 
98. He bought the pc used, and does not have the installation CD-ROM.

I helped him with installing a second hard drive, but upon reboot, the 
thing gets to the splash screen, then gives a fatal exception message 
having to do with an invalid line of instruction in Explorer. I have 
tried fixing the registry, and restoring the registry, without positive 
result. I am thinking that the next thing to do would be a re-install of 
Windows 98, but neither he nor I have a Windows 98 CD-ROM.

So, my question is two-fold- first, is there a trick which I am missing 
in getting his PC up and running again, short of a re-install, and 
second, if a re-install is necessary, where can I get a Windows 98 disk, 
short of trying to buy one retail?

As this is off-topic, it would probably be best to reply off-list.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

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Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com


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