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"missing" .vxd files
Visiting a friend over the weekend, his W98SE system wouldn't boot - this
happened while I was watching, and he said he'd not had any problems the last time he'd used it (the previous day). It came up with the usual sort of message '98 does when an important file is missing, and said ("one or more of" which seems odd!) the following were missing: vmm.vxd shell.vxd vtd.vxd (yes, definitely a t, not an f) vxdrdr.vxd vpicd.vxd vwin32.vxd I tried an ERU to the last one I'd saved (only around the start of February), no luck, same message; I checked for the files, and sure enough they weren't there (apart from possibly the first one, vmm.vxd, which might have been in windows\system\vmm32). I also checked the W98 installation files, intending to do an extract if necessary, and the files (well the two or three I tried) weren't there. I eventually did a Windows reinstall (followed by the ERU), and all is well again; however, those files are _still_ not there - it just isn't looking for them this time. Naturally I'm somewhat cross; can anyone tell me what it was that was looking for them, and is it something I can back up (i. e. the version that _isn't_ looking for them) to avoid having to do a reinstall if it should happen again? (And what do those files do?) (I say all is well: one - the important one! - aspect of Brothers' Keeper, the genealogy program, is now not working.) -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298 Essex home for sale, £59,950: see http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/ |
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"J. P. Gilliver" wrote in message ... Visiting a friend over the weekend, his W98SE system wouldn't boot - this happened while I was watching, and he said he'd not had any problems the last time he'd used it (the previous day). It came up with the usual sort of message '98 does when an important file is missing, and said ("one or more of" which seems odd!) the following were missing: vmm.vxd shell.vxd vtd.vxd (yes, definitely a t, not an f) vxdrdr.vxd vpicd.vxd vwin32.vxd I tried an ERU to the last one I'd saved (only around the start of February), no luck, same message; I checked for the files, and sure enough they weren't there (apart from possibly the first one, vmm.vxd, which might have been in windows\system\vmm32). I also checked the W98 installation files, intending to do an extract if necessary, and the files (well the two or three I tried) weren't there. I eventually did a Windows reinstall (followed by the ERU), and all is well again; however, those files are _still_ not there - it just isn't looking for them this time. Naturally I'm somewhat cross; can anyone tell me what it was that was looking for them, and is it something I can back up (i. e. the version that _isn't_ looking for them) to avoid having to do a reinstall if it should happen again? (And what do those files do?) (I say all is well: one - the important one! - aspect of Brothers' Keeper, the genealogy program, is now not working.) As a precaution, run a RAM test http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp |
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Check this out J. P.:
http://projectdream.org/wordpress/20...98-and-vmmvxd/ -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "J. P. Gilliver" wrote in message ... Visiting a friend over the weekend, his W98SE system wouldn't boot - this happened while I was watching, and he said he'd not had any problems the last time he'd used it (the previous day). It came up with the usual sort of message '98 does when an important file is missing, and said ("one or more of" which seems odd!) the following were missing: vmm.vxd shell.vxd vtd.vxd (yes, definitely a t, not an f) vxdrdr.vxd vpicd.vxd vwin32.vxd I tried an ERU to the last one I'd saved (only around the start of February), no luck, same message; I checked for the files, and sure enough they weren't there (apart from possibly the first one, vmm.vxd, which might have been in windows\system\vmm32). I also checked the W98 installation files, intending to do an extract if necessary, and the files (well the two or three I tried) weren't there. I eventually did a Windows reinstall (followed by the ERU), and all is well again; however, those files are _still_ not there - it just isn't looking for them this time. Naturally I'm somewhat cross; can anyone tell me what it was that was looking for them, and is it something I can back up (i. e. the version that _isn't_ looking for them) to avoid having to do a reinstall if it should happen again? (And what do those files do?) (I say all is well: one - the important one! - aspect of Brothers' Keeper, the genealogy program, is now not working.) -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298 Essex home for sale, £59,950: see http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/ |
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:07:23 -0000, "J. P. Gilliver"
put finger to keyboard and composed: Visiting a friend over the weekend, his W98SE system wouldn't boot - this happened while I was watching, and he said he'd not had any problems the last time he'd used it (the previous day). It came up with the usual sort of message '98 does when an important file is missing, and said ("one or more of" which seems odd!) the following were missing: vmm.vxd shell.vxd vtd.vxd (yes, definitely a t, not an f) vxdrdr.vxd vpicd.vxd vwin32.vxd These files are not missing. AFAIK they are included as "static" vxds within vmm32.vxd which is custom built during Windows installation. - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:42:52 +1100, Franc Zabkar
put finger to keyboard and composed: On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:07:23 -0000, "J. P. Gilliver" put finger to keyboard and composed: vmm.vxd shell.vxd vtd.vxd (yes, definitely a t, not an f) vxdrdr.vxd vpicd.vxd vwin32.vxd These files are not missing. AFAIK they are included as "static" vxds within vmm32.vxd which is custom built during Windows installation. See this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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philo wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver" wrote in message ... [] It came up with the usual sort of message '98 does when an important file is missing, and said ("one or more of" which seems odd!) the following were missing: vmm.vxd shell.vxd vtd.vxd (yes, definitely a t, not an f) vxdrdr.vxd vpicd.vxd vwin32.vxd [] As a precaution, run a RAM test http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Normally good advice (though you shouldn't make suggesting it a reflex response!), but I somehow can't see how a RAM fault could have caused such a specific problem! The article Gary S. Terhune points to in the next post describes something very similar. -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298 Essex home for sale, £59,950: see http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/ |
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Gary S. Terhune wrote:
Check this out J. P.: http://projectdream.org/wordpress/20...98-and-vmmvxd/ [] (Name's John by the way.) Interesting; sounds like exactly the same problem. However: 1. He seemed to associate it with some USB driver device that had recently been installed. I hadn't done so on my friend's machine (and after I got it working again, the one USB pen drive - my mp3 player - I use to transfer stuff to it, still worked); 2. he somewhat dissed those of us who like '98; 3. he pointed to the universal USB driver that gets mentioned here from time to time. I've tried that twice - right royally screwed up my system, took me ages to get things working again. Presumably they do work fine for many people. -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298 Essex home for sale, £59,950: see http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/ |
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Franc Zabkar wrote:
[] These files are not missing. AFAIK they are included as "static" vxds within vmm32.vxd which is custom built during Windows installation. See this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD - Franc Zabkar (Sorry, I'm not at the machine - it's at a friend's house whom I visit rarely.) 1. What will I find if I do see that registry key? 2. Any suggestions for something I can save that would let me get back to normal should it ever go wrong again? (Remember it won't even boot into safe mode if it does, so - AFAIK - I couldn't just export a registry key, as I couldn't import it. Besides, ERD to a previously-saved set didn't either, and that includes the two registry files.) -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298 Essex home for sale, £59,950: see http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/ |
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Dang! I thought that one had promise.
-- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "J. P. Gilliver" wrote in message ... Gary S. Terhune wrote: Check this out J. P.: http://projectdream.org/wordpress/20...98-and-vmmvxd/ [] (Name's John by the way.) Interesting; sounds like exactly the same problem. However: 1. He seemed to associate it with some USB driver device that had recently been installed. I hadn't done so on my friend's machine (and after I got it working again, the one USB pen drive - my mp3 player - I use to transfer stuff to it, still worked); 2. he somewhat dissed those of us who like '98; 3. he pointed to the universal USB driver that gets mentioned here from time to time. I've tried that twice - right royally screwed up my system, took me ages to get things working again. Presumably they do work fine for many people. -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298 Essex home for sale, £59,950: see http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/ |
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:38:58 -0000, "J. P. Gilliver"
put finger to keyboard and composed: Franc Zabkar wrote: [] These files are not missing. AFAIK they are included as "static" vxds within vmm32.vxd which is custom built during Windows installation. See this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD - Franc Zabkar (Sorry, I'm not at the machine - it's at a friend's house whom I visit rarely.) 1. What will I find if I do see that registry key? 2. Any suggestions for something I can save that would let me get back to normal should it ever go wrong again? (Remember it won't even boot into safe mode if it does, so - AFAIK - I couldn't just export a registry key, as I couldn't import it. Besides, ERD to a previously-saved set didn't either, and that includes the two registry files.) I'm not a programmer, but that particular registry key appears to contain references to a whole bunch of drivers that are loaded during the boot process. The "static" VxDs are lumped together into a single file, vmm32.vxd, so I don't really understand why Windows would say those static VxD files are missing, unless vmm32.vxd is itself missing or corrupted. I'd run a hard disc diagnostic tool to verify that there are no bad sectors on your drive. Just in case vmm32.vxd is occupying some intermittently bad sectors, I'd make a copy of it (if it is readable) and rename the original to vmm32.bak, say. The copy will hopefully occupy good sectors. FWIW, this is what Wikipedia has to say: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_9x ================================================== ================ Virtual Machine Manager The Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is one of the core components of Windows 9x. The VMM creates virtual MS-DOS environments for system processes and Windows applications that still need to run in MS-DOS mode. The VMM is the replacement for Win386 in Windows 3.x, and the file vmm32.vxd is a monolithic file which contains many basic VxDs that are needed for booting Windows. ================================================== ================ - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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