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Buddy Whaley - 30 Mar 2004 15:42 GMT

I got an old laptop from a friend with 95 on it. It only
has a floppy, no CD-ROM. When I try to install any
program, an error message pops up telling me that some
kind of *.DLL file is missing. I guess these are system
files, and I dont have the 95 startup disk to fix it. Is
there any way to get this problem solved?????

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Haggis - 30 Mar 2004 16:47 GMT

you may be able to get what you need thru here

http://www.internet-help.net/DLL_Files/

> I got an old laptop from a friend with 95 on it. It only
> has a floppy, no CD-ROM. When I try to install any
> program, an error message pops up telling me that some
> kind of *.DLL file is missing. I guess these are system
> files, and I dont have the 95 startup disk to fix it. Is
> there any way to get this problem solved?????

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Ron Martell - 02 Apr 2004 19:07 GMT

>I got an old laptop from a friend with 95 on it. It only
>has a floppy, no CD-ROM. When I try to install any
>program, an error message pops up telling me that some
>kind of *.DLL file is missing. I guess these are system
>files, and I dont have the 95 startup disk to fix it. Is
>there any way to get this problem solved?????

Check the hard drive for a folder named c:\windows\options\cabs and
see if there are a number of files with whose names are Win95_nn.cab
where nn is a 2 digit number.

If so then these are the source files copied from the Windows 95 CD
and you can extract replacements for missing files from these. Use
Start - Run - SFC and choose the option to "extract a file" and then
fill in the blanks as requested.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

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