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by lobo20

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Good day to you all,

A friend of mine is trying to troubleshoot his computer. After the "Windows 98" screen appears, it says that the system cannot find these files: vnetsup.vxd, vredir.vxd, and dfs.vxd, and it wants him try to reinstall them.

I'm guessing it's got something to do with the NIC, but I may be wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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by srikrishna

You can restore from win98 CD.start system file checker..Accessories/system tools/systeminfo/tools/system file checker...
Select'extract file from installation disk..thn enter vredir.vxd n save file in windows/system or ur system folder..
Hoep this helps solving the problem..

by lobo20

I apologize for not mentioning that he nor I do not have a Win 98 CD handy which most likely would have worked. I thank you for your quick response.

by chitosunday

the extension vxd is usually a driver of our dispaly adapter (video card) which affect your nic screen. Try reinstallying our video driver. The name of our video card is found in the settings, control panel, system, device manager , display adapter. You can download the driver by google search of the name in the internet.

by dmiles

[http://medusa.simplenet.com/Finders/Drivers/VXD/Files/ ]
See the above site to get files which are associated with the networking setup,if you know someone with the 98 CD,ask copy the files from the disk for you

by 1stladytech

The files that are "missing" have to do with corrupted network protocols. Try removing and reinstalling all network systems. When reinstalling the network, when it asks for the Win98 cd, direct the search back to c:\windows and c:\windows\system directories. All the files that you should need should already be there. If that doesn't work, you may have a virus or spyware that is causing you problems. Also if you had a firewall that you improperly removed it can give you the same symtoms.

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by ryder007

Ladytech is right, you must have interrupted your installation of your network card. Try this it sometimes works if you don't have a 98 cd. Go to device manager uninstall the card from there. Shutdown your computer remove the card from the computer. Now bootup. Once booted shutdown again and reinstall the nic. Bootup and install driver for nic. It will ask you for the 98 cd so it can install cab files, when this prompt comes up tye on c:\windows or c:\windows\system. If this does not work you don't have the cabs on your computer and you will need a 98 cd or you amy be able to find the cabs on-line.

by lobo20

Thanks! Your answer and Ladytech's combined jumpstarted my brain. I had disabled the driver for the NIC and rebooted which didn't help. He had taken the NIC out before and I should have removed it from device manager when I was working on it 2 days ago. Thanks again to you both.

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