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win.com file corrupted in windows 95

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by red dragoon

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My client has a Windows 95 machine. When you start it up (even in safe mode), it comes to the loading Windows 95 screen then comes back to a dos-prompt. Even if you run the autoexec.bat or type in win, it does not work. Occasionally, there is a message that the win.com is corrupted. Can this be extracted? Reinstalling the OS did not work.

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by dfgconsulting

The first thing I would try is simply copying it from another Win95 machine (preferably one that works). If that doesn't work, then there is another problem. At the worst, you backup the data, format, and reinstall (upgrade to 98SE or higher, if you can).

by rcom

If you want to try the installation again rename the file first. Since it already exsists the setup is not creating new copy.

by maelgwyn

you can extract the data from the cabs use extract and the help that is associuated

(norm I would tell you, but Im running linux - it dont quite like win stuff

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