I can suddenly no longer access my control panel, winfile, explorer
file or any file management program in Windows 98.  Is Microsoft
sending me a message that I can no longer use 98?  (although I have XP
on my partitioned disk.  Can any one help me?

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Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 26 Sep 2005 18:13 PDT

Hi gafro,

Some ideas.

1. Click Start / Run / type: sfc / OK
Scan for altered files. Start

2. Press WinKey+E  (to access My Computer) or WinKey+Pause/Break (to
access System Properties)

3. Start / Find / Files or Folders / Name: control.exe / Find Now
Try clicking the control.exe file to open the Control Panel.

4. See if you can access anything in Safe Mode.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2001052409420406?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=1&Src=sec_doc_nam#_Section1

5. Restore your system to a previous date when things were working.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/1999111116313539 

Good luck (you'd be surprised how many people are still using W98,
it's not a extinct yet),
hummer

Hi Gafro,

Please update your windows 98 from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
for things to work.

Thanks,

Sanjay