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by aldanatech

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I have a Windows 98SE system with a weird problem. When I double-click on the C: drive from My Computer, I get a Program Not Found dialog box. It reads, "Windows cannot find listen32.exe. This program is needed for opening files of type 'File'." and it asks me for the location of listen32.exe. When I look at the registry, I find it in AutoRun as Default in Name and "C:\listen\listen32.exe\listen\data\startup.ast". I tried deleting it, I tried deleting AutoRun altogether but it useless. Every time I reboot the system it reloads itself. Any ideas?

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by rewrite

Sounds like some of your associations have gotten messed up. Your best bet might be to do a repair install. You can do this by booting from a win98 boot disk and booting with cdrom support. Then go to the cdrom drive and type "cd\win98" (no quotes). Type "Setup" (no quotes) and reinstall windows (this will keep all of your previous apps installed. After the install test your system.

Cheers.

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