system.ini

You need a boot disk and then you can use command prompt. When you are in command prompt you need to go to windows directory and check whether there are some system.* files or not. If there are and there is no system.ini among them you need to rename one of system.* files to system.ini (preferably the newest version from them).

Get a boot disk or press F8 booting up your PC. Then go to \Windows and look for all files called system.*
There should be a system.bkp, system.bak, system.tmp or something, take the latest one, rename it and that should do it.
On the other hand, how did you loose it?, was it a virus the one who delete it, or it is just corrupted. If you delete the file from windows you can also look for it this way:
from C: prompt
dir syste.* /s /p
it will give you the path.
If you can not find the file probably you'll have to re-install windows.

Good luck,

@lberto

There are Cabinet files by the name rb000 ..... rb00x in the windows/sysbackup folder you need to extract the files from the cabinet using the extracter on the boot disk ( or winzip for dos ) ....there is a surprize waiting for you .....the win.ini backup is hiding inside it and now you can copy it to the root folder . There are other backup files in it that might be of interest to you so make a note of them ..you might need to restore those too .

Good luck

What you need is a Win98 boot disk. Boot up the system with it and type at the a prompt:
ren c:\windows\system.cb system.ini
This is a backup of the system.ini file when your Windows was first installed. Some drivers may need to be reinstalled,but at least you'll have your Desktop.
pballasy

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