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by mark.leonard 1 view

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My laptop boots fine into windows and as soon as it boots I get the following error message " Shell Windows Interface is not available " . Does any body know how to get rid of this

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by dcassat

I would boot the computer to DOS (press F8 after boot). type cd\windows. type edit system.ini. Look for the shell= line. This line may have the wrong information on it. On my windows 98 machine the syntax is shell=explorer.exe. Save the file and reboot. I hope this helps!

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