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Can not find Win.com

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by shanghai sam

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I am sitting in front of a Win98 machine. At boot up it stops and says "C:/> Can not find Win.com. If I change directories to windows I can get in with the win command. I am rusty with 98 and would appreciate some one reminding me where Win.com goes so I can repair this machine.
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by csmith

You will be glad to know that Microsoft has not changed the location of win.com .
It is still C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM , as it was in Win95, Win3.1, etc.
Regards, Chris csmith@smithandyoung.com

by top_banana

Common cause of this is an incorrect path statement in Autoexec.bat or Config.sys.
Edit Autoexec and place REM infront of each line.
Similarly with config.sys, place a semi-colon ";" infront of each line.

You should now be able to boot into windows ok.

Track down the line in the autoexec.bat or config.sys files causing this error and remove.

Windows 98 does not require anything in Autoexec.bat or Config.sys to boot, so you could even try renaming both files out of the way. It will recreate them "blank".

Let us know if this helps or not.

by csmith

To fix this problem: I would recommend to first boot on an Antivirus floppy, and check for viruses(boot sector etc.) . Then check for other Windows virus infections.
Regards, Chris csmith@smithandyoung.com

by another computer guy

Open your Windows Explorer and Quick View your MSDOS.SYS file and make sure that the two lines WinDir=C:\Windows and WinBootDir=C:\Windows are present. If you need to edit the file, you will have to remove the read-only attributes for the file.

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