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hello again, just recently a Kernal file 'KRNL386.EXE ' has been corrupt (aparently) the files still n windows but doesn't seem to be working, it's been happening with some other drivers recently too, it just comes up with illegal operation and cacels the program, in most cases it's something to do with the printer, but it has stopped my parents from playing freecell *shock* which is kinda like their life support, and they have inbuilt instincts to blame me for it *looks around and denys everything* I would be extreemly grateful for any advice on what to do, no i won't format and i'm hoping I don't have to reinstall windows.
The files still there, but it doesn't seem to recognice it.

thanks in advance.

It only needed rebooting, nothing too drastic, i'm a silly fool for not trying it first, it's oftn the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Nargle, reinstalling Windows over Windows is often a really bad idea.

Just re-install Windows...

If you re-install it without formatting the harddrive you wont lose any information... it will just replace the Windows files...

Although... you will have to spend a while getting the Windows updates again...

yeah i have McAfee, but it's not just Freecell, it was everything to do with the printer that wasn't working, I have no idea how Freecell was connected to it.

Hi

Just in case ... from bitter experience (not on this machine), I know that McAfee AntiVirus can screw around with Freecell, so it might be your virus checker itself thats causing the problem.

ok, sorry i didn't post this earlier, i'd recommend this to anyone,if somethings wrong with your pc, boot it!

no idea what happened, I like it when my pc glitches.

One thing you might try...

Typically if you explore your win98 CD you'll find a load of .cab files somewhere on the CD containing win98 itself. What you can do is try finding the cab file that contains the file you want (cab files are like zip files in case you didn't know). Latest versions of winzip can read cab files, so could be as simple as finding the right cab file and extracting the exe file you want to location of the old one.

As for which cab file you want to look in, it'll depends on your windows install CD. I found krnl386.exe in mini.cab on a win98 CD but I'm sure it varies according to the different versions. Not even sure if all versions of windows used cab files even. Worth a look anyway.

i've run the Virus scan, no results, I updated it too (been long enough) um, i'm running Win98+ I would re-instal lWindows but it would take ages to get everything running normally again.

ok, thanks for your help, i'll have another fiddle around.

Do you have a decent virus checker?? A few viruses infect your kernel files and pla up, thats what i was getting before i virus scanned.

Well, if it were Linux and I had a buggered kernel I'd just recompile it. Of course, in Windows, you can't and I doubt how reliable just getting a duplicate would be. What version are you running, see if you can get someone elses? But as I say, kernels are generally specific to the hardware, but I'm guessing Windows is modular.