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boot & lz32.dll

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Every time I boot up I get a system alert ‘lz32.dll is corrupt or missing’… Dismiss the box and almost everything is OK… Except I can’t install or uninstall certain programs, specifically those that use a ‘setup.exe’ type installer. (eg: MS Office products, most virus checkers etc).
I have re-installed lz32 from my original disks, I have done everything the microsoft tech note said to do. No change to the boot up message.
I have not done anything to the registry as yet, there is an entry in ‘\hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\sessionmanager\knowndlls’.
I don’t have time right now to reformat the HD etc and reinstall everything.
Any clues? I do install/uninstall a lot of stuff, and I think the problem occurred atnext boot after some such session.

thanks, ev3

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boot & lz32.dll

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It sounds like the lz32.dll file has been updated at some point and when you restore from the original disks it is still out of sync with the updates. Try a trawl through technet and see if this file has been included in any system update and then run the update again or extract the file and load it – the 2nd method is probably safest.

Best of luck

boot & lz32.dll

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OK will try this.

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1.Delete the WINDOWS directory
2. in the root(C:\) Type attrib -s -h -a -r
and delete all the files direct under the root. ex: IO.sys, autoexec, config….
Then you just install WIN98SE again.90% of your program should still work after you done that.
And put up the ICONs.. (Dont forget to make a backup for your e-mails and addresses and your favorits in the IE4/5.

Goodluck

boot & lz32.dll

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Sorry, forgot to say I’m on WIN95. At the moment I cannot chance any problems arising from a reinstall at this point.

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Windrivers.com has downloads for dll’s uder the Tech Support on the left hand side of the page. I have checked and the lz32.dll is available for download.

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the lz32.dll files I found were a year older than the ones on my system. I’m running win95. Will check for newer files, but need to make sure they’re win95 not win98???

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