[pchelpers] Re: Wordpad re-install

I'm a little confused because the windows setup should know where to find
everything!

I guess it can't find the path because of the way windows was pre-installed.
You may be able to get somewhere with a fresh install.  This could cause
problems!!!  I have re-installed W98 over an existing installation in the
past, and had no trouble.  It remembered all my settings and all my
programs.  I did not have to re-instal any other program.  And all my
windows problems were fixed.  To do this you may have to boot from the cd or
you may be able to run the setup.exe on the cd.  On my W98 cd, the setup
file is in the root of the cd but on my bootable W98SE cd, it is in a folder
called win98.

Of course, a fresh instal may trash everything you have, certainly it will
if it thinks it needs to format your drive!

Cheers
Nigel


>
> Thanks, Nigel,
> it won't bring up the proper CD path. I tried that. it just comes up with
> DRIVE.INF I think,
> then if I Browse, it never offers the proper Wordpad option.  I guess I
> don't have the CD on
> my puny 4Gig drive. I also browsed it. W98 was pre-installed. (I have the
> disk) After killing
> the virus,  I tried to kill the RICHED.DLL, & replace it, but I was stuck
> with opening Word
> by a backdoor method - find & open RICHED.DLL (with Wordpad), then Wordpad
> is
> open.   at least it opened then!
> any other ideas - like what's the exact path on the CD? maybe I can type
it
> in & get there.
> thanks
> Ellen
>
>
> > ** Original Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Wordpad re-install
> > ** Original Sender: "Nigel" <>npl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ** Original Date: 24 Jan 2002 17:19:46 -0800 (PST)
>
> > ** Original Message follows...
>
> >
> > Go to Control Panel; Add/Remove Programs; Windows Setup; then click on
the
> > word Accessories in the list; then click on Details then select wordpad.
> > The setup knows where to find the bits it needs to install.  You will
need
> > the W98 cd.  If you have copied the whole cd onto your hard drive
> > previously, then you can point the install to d:\w98cd\WIN98 where
> d:\w98cd
> > is the drive letter and path to where you have copied the cd.
> >
> > The other option might have been to simply kill the virus then replace
the
> > one file from the cd.  Might be a handy tip for next time!
> >
> > Cheers
> > Nigel
> >
> > > I need to re-install Wordpad. the Nimda virus
> > > corrupted my riched.dll, so I was going into Wordpad
> > > by a backdoor. I opened the help, & killed Wordpad
> > > thru the Control Panel. I thought I could re-install
> > > it using the Win98 CD-ROM. When I try to re-install, I
> > > can't find the path on the D(CD) drive. After a few
> > > attempts, i get a fatal error in the run.dll. what can
> > > I do to restore Wordpad?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Ellen M.
>
>
>
>


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