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glenn - 17 Feb 2006 03:29 GMT

I have an Ibm clone that I recently purchased and somehow it has dropped the
winit.exe in the startup, as a result it shuts down as soon as it starts
opening windows.
I do not have a win 98 disk but the disk has been copied to the hard drive
how can I restore the missing file since windows will not open?
I have a rescue disk but am uncertian how to do this.

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Don Phillipson - 17 Feb 2006 21:48 GMT

> I have an Ibm clone that I recently purchased and somehow it has dropped the
> winit.exe in the startup, as a result it shuts down as soon as it starts
> opening windows.
> I do not have a win 98 disk but the disk has been copied to the hard drive
> how can I restore the missing file since windows will not open?
> I have a rescue disk but am uncertian how to do this.

Standard installations of Win98 have no file named WINIT.EXE
Run a virus check.

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(Ottawa, Canada)

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glee - 18 Feb 2006 03:01 GMT

winit.exe? That is a file added by a variant of W32.Mugly.A worm. Are you sure
that is the name of the file in question?

Where are you seeing this file name? Are you getting an error message? Please
provide the exact error messages word for word.

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glenn - 18 Feb 2006 03:06 GMT

I found the problem and fixed it and just want to thank everyone for their
input.
for the record I typed the wrong file name.

> winit.exe? That is a file added by a variant of W32.Mugly.A worm. Are you sure
> that is the name of the file in question?
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> > how can I restore the missing file since windows will not open?
> > I have a rescue disk but am uncertian how to do this.

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glee - 18 Feb 2006 05:39 GMT

I'm guessing the file you were really missing was wininit.exe?

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> I found the problem and fixed it and just want to thank everyone for their
> input.
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> > > how can I restore the missing file since windows will not open?
> > > I have a rescue disk but am uncertian how to do this.

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glenn - 18 Feb 2006 06:48 GMT

give the man a cigar lol

> I'm guessing the file you were really missing was wininit.exe?
> > I found the problem and fixed it and just want to thank everyone for their
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> > > > how can I restore the missing file since windows will not open?
> > > > I have a rescue disk but am uncertian how to do this.

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mainhoon - 11 Mar 2006 21:59 GMT

i might be having the same problem.. where can i get this wininit.exe from?

it gets stuck at c:\windows\wininit.exe and then turns off.. thanks

> give the man a cigar lol
> > I'm guessing the file you were really missing was wininit.exe?
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> > > > > how can I restore the missing file since windows will not open?
> > > > > I have a rescue disk but am uncertian how to do this.

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glee - 12 Mar 2006 21:00 GMT

See Bill Watt's reply to your thread in this group, about using EXT from a floppy
boot, to extract a new copy of wininit.exe to the Windows folder on your C: drive,
from the Win98 folder on your Windows CD.

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> i might be having the same problem.. where can i get this wininit.exe from?
>
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> > > > > > how can I restore the missing file since windows will not open?
> > > > > > I have a rescue disk but am uncertian how to do this.

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mc_chr0nic - 24 Apr 2006 13:01 GMT

"glenn" schreef:

> I have an Ibm clone that I recently purchased and somehow it has dropped the
> winit.exe in the startup, as a result it shuts down as soon as it starts
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>
> i think i got the same problem...can you reboot into safe mode?i can't,my pc boots and then it goes into a loop....i tried system file checker => check system files and it reported two damaged files: user.exe and another one wich i've replaced with the originals and since that day the "loop-booting" has begun...no help either from microsoft product support!

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