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by erlejo

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I have dual boot system, win98 and XP.
I recently uninstalled some creative webcam software now my computer starts only on win98 and only as far as the desktop with two error messages: (1st)'Error loading Explorer.exe. You must reinstall windows' (2nd) 'Error Starting Program' stating 'A required DLL file MSVCRT.DLL was not found.
I have run out of options.
Can anyone out there please help? I am desperate.

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by compgirlfhredi

After you click 'OK' when the error You must reinstall Windows, then the .dll error comes up, right? Or vice-versa.
Try replacing the Msvcrt.dll file with a new copy from the Windows CD. To do this:

Restart the computer with the Windows 98 Startup disk. At the Microsoft Windows 98 Startup menu, type 1, and then press ENTER. Record the drive letter assigned to the CD or DVD-ROM drive.
Type ext, and then press ENTER to start the Microsoft Extract Command Line Helper. At the Please enter the path to the Windows CAB files (a:): prompt, type drive:\win98 (where drive is the drive letter that you recorded in step 3), and then press ENTER.
Note: Depending on your installation of Windows, the Windows .cab files may also be stored in the \Windows\Options\Cabs folder.
At the Please enter the name(s) of the file(s) you want to extract: prompt, type msvcrt.dll, and then press ENTER.
At the Please enter the path to extract to ('Enter' for current directory): prompt, type c:\windows\system, and then press ENTER.
At the Is this okay? (y/n) prompt, type y, and then press ENTER to extract the file to the specified directory.
Remove the Windows 98 Startup disk, and then restart the computer.

by wlbowers

This dll is used by the Microsoft Runtime Library. It is sometimes replaced during installs.

It obviously was erased by the uninstall. You can download this file at.

I found several instances of this file in several program specific folders.

You can download it from the web.

http://tinyurl.com/lacf

remove spaces that might occur during copy and paste.

You will want to put it in the system23.

Take care of this one then see what happens.

Lee

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