Win 95 & WIN.COM

Citt,
Hope this helps.

Glenn

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q136/6/30.asp

If hewittg suggestion above doesn't do it, edit your autoexec.bat and make sure the path statement includes c:\windows.

To answer your questions. Sys C will add Command.com IO.sys, and MSDOS.sys. And you can see by the article that Glenn posted that your Win.com is missing when you get that message. You will also see that you can't use your Windows 98 Win.com, but there are instructions how to extract another Windows 95 win.com. I think that System File Checker (extraction) and Scanreg /restore are the reasons I like Windows 98 over Windows 95. Srwings has already told you it goes in the Windows file and not on the root.

Another thing you might want to do is scan your friend's computer for viruses. There's at least one virus which moves win.com or renames it. If you have an up to date scanner, make a recovery disk and use it to boot and scan your friend's machine. Failing that, run scandisk from DOS safe mode, to see if the hard drive is corrupted.

I was just in a newsgroup where someone reported Win.com disappeared on them right after they visited their own homepage on homestead.com. After the machine locked, they restarted to that error. Kinda weird.

Answer accepted

Sounds like a good thing to try to me!!

Citt,
Did that fix your problem?

Glenn

It sems the Queen of Swords hit the nail on the head!! The computer seems to have had a virus!!  Where do I go from here?   I renamed the win.trl to win.com & presto Windows!! But, how do I go about geting rid of the virus?  I have innoculate it on my computer, but I need one I can put on a disk & boot it from DOS!!  How do I do so & what do I use?  Please help. Many thanks!!

I am confused why you accepted srwings comment when Queen of Swords hit the nail on the head.

that is why I ask the question

I'm sorry if I screwed up.  I have never used this board before.  Usually on other boards, I must rate everyone who answers me.  I thought it was the same here.  I looked to rate everyone, but once I accepted the answer from 1 person, I could not rate anyone else.  How do I decline someone's answer & tell the board someone else was right.  I usually give everyone a good rating for the effort.  I don't mean to offend anyone!! I'm not really sure how I accept or decline someone on this board.  Please help & answer my question if you don't mind.

I'm sorry if I screwed up.  I have never used this board before.  Usually on other boards, I must rate everyone who answers me.  I thought it was the same here.  I looked to rate everyone, but once I accepted the answer from 1 person, I could not rate anyone else.  How do I decline someone's answer & tell the board someone else was right.  I usually give everyone a good rating for the effort.  I don't mean to offend anyone!! I'm not really sure how I accept or decline someone on this board.  Please help & answer my question if you don't mind.

Citt,
No need to apologize.  The majority of your anti-virus software has the option to make a rescue disk.  If you do not have anti-virus software, you get purchase it or get one from the net.  Do you have any virus software installed?

Glenn

Yes, I have innoculate it.  But, it is free.  But I don't get how a recue disk could work.  Doesn't it still need the database of signitures to look for?  Anyway, who care?  Just please explain to me how to make the disk & I guess I boot with it & let it do its thing or run the program.  Please let me know.  thanks.  I used to use a program called AVP, but it seems they charge now.  Oh well.  Any suggestions would help.  I'll go look to see what I find in Innoculate it.  I must admit I am somewhat confused.  If the boot disk can save me from viruses why did I have to install the whole program.  Any help is appreciated.

Citt,
The boot disk is to check the boot sector and all files on boot up.  The install of the program constantly checks your machine while you are working.  I am sorry, I have been out.  Will look into innoculate, I use Mcafee.  Talk to you soon.

Glenn

When I tried Innoculate, it didn't have a boot disk like McAfee. See if you can trial McAfee or Nortons.

I found a program called F-prot.  It worked GREAT!!  Thanks a lot!!