XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc, alt.windows95   
   From: olekingcoleNO@SPAMhotmail.com   
      
   Hi Jason,   
      
   You can find the version of W95 he is running under System, or right mouse My   
   Computer,   
   Properties. I suspect it is running a 16 bit OS and you would need to do a   
   pretty good bit   
   to not have trouble every time you load 32 bit programs. You can find 16 bit   
   freeware and   
   shareware utilities to help with it, but it is just as easy to Format and get   
   him a clean   
   install.   
      
   You need to write down the hardware running, use another machine and go get   
   the most   
   up-to-date drivers you can find for it. You also want to go to the HDD   
   manufacturer and see   
   what upgrade for the MoBo, and look for an up dated BIOS. They all should be   
   no larger than   
   a floppy. Oh, make sure you have freshly formatted floppies, with NO bad   
   sectors. Just look   
   at each one when the get through for the report.   
      
   For ease of the entire matter, you can get a W95 boot disk or w98 for that   
   matter and boot   
   to a WS-DOS prompt and type FDISK to set any partitions or remove any   
   trash   
   partitions there, although I suspect it may have like a 560 meg HDD. Be good   
   to blow all the   
   cob webs and ghost tards out of, but be careful with the cables, so one   
   doesn't cause   
   problems from being loose. It's happened to me before. I also suggest a BASIC   
   partition for   
   all of it. After you finish, power down. Boot w/boot diskette again and type   
   FORMAT u/c/s/   
    and that will look for fixing bad sectors, etc. After you get through,   
   put your   
   Installation CD in the tray, and power down. Boot with the floppy, and at the   
   DOS Prompt   
   type D:  , SETUP.EXE  and follow the prompts.   
      
   good luck,   
   don   
      
      
   "Witchsmeller Jason"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns9452DEA49AE0Ajasondsnape@195.92.193.157...   
   Hi,   
      
   A friend has asked me to look at his flakey Win 95 box, which I strongly   
   suspect is riddle with spyware & possibly viruses (viri). I installed a   
   copy of Lavasoft's Ad-aware on his machine but when I ran it Windows   
   complained about WS2_32.DLL being missing. I downloaded a zipped version of   
   this from the net but when I extracted it (with winzip) I could only find a   
   html doc in the chosen directory, no DLL? Frustrated I gave up & downloaded   
   the file on my XP box, extracted it and eventually copied it to his system   
   folder. After running Ad-aware again his box then complained about missing   
   WS2_HELP.DLL (or something very similar, I can't find the piece of paper I   
   wrote it down on). I think a virus &/or spyware has altered his machine   
   which is causing many problems.   
      
   Does anyone know a way to fix this PC, as I can't seem to extract zipped   
   DLLs on his box I can't keep driving to his house to find out which DLL it   
   needs next only to have to go home, download it on my PC & return - there   
   could be 20+ files missing!   
      
   I don't mind if someone has come accorss this problem before & supplies a   
   list of possible DLLs that are missing, I can download them all and take   
   them round on a disc. Alternatively maybe there is an app that I can   
   download that can scan which files are missing? He does have the original   
   Win 95 disc if that helps, any advice greatly appreciated. I've also tried   
   Spybot & I get the same results.   
      
   Thanks, Jason.   
      
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