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Thread ID: 24898 2002-09-21 08:48:00 My Sister's PC again Neil McC (178) Press F1
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81680 2002-09-21 08:48:00 She has just got it back from the repair man who installed a new hard drive under warranty,20 gig instead of 6,so nice!Tried to install Winzip off cd's and by downloading.Keep getting the message-"Win-zip self extractor header corrupt.Possible cause:bad disk or file transfer error".
Tried to install in safe mode as well,no go.Need it to install AVG etc.
Also tried to install IE6 instead of the 4 she's got on.That comes up with "system file error.DLL file MSVBVM60 was not found" Have done a search for that one,but not sure what I'm looking to do!Would a refresh help?Although I assume the repair man did that as he has saved stuff in an "Old file" which seems to have double ups in Win Explorer,ie Program files etc.At least I got her back on line with OE and IE.
Suggestions please.Win 98.
Neil McC (178)
81681 2002-09-21 08:56:00 OK,
I found the file in question in C:/windows/system (i run 98SE)
If you can find it in the back ups, move a copy to there, Otherwise you might have to copy it from another machine, along with everything else on the list of lost files
Chris Wilson (431)
81682 2002-09-21 09:11:00 Been there done that, sort of - with ME

As pc was over 4 yrs old I took the opportunity to replace the battery BUT with my old eyes I need help as I had no familiarty with how the disc battery case hinged open so the old/new battery could be removed/replaced

Yes - I did have the mobo manual to peruse the BIOS settings , not that there was anything much different other than "num lock on" ...
Abdul (1276)
81683 2002-09-21 10:16:00 Hi Chris,don't know what happened to my previous reply!Found that file in my ME pc too.Can I copy it out of here for her?
Just been on the winzip site and they say it could be a virus that makes the self-extractor header corrupt,so will ask my sis to go to Symantec and run a scan.Thanks.
Neil McC (178)
81684 2002-09-21 10:28:00 it'll either work or it wont...
the 98 version is 1,352 KB
if its a different file size.. who knows?
Chris Wilson (431)
81685 2002-09-21 12:03:00 The MSVBVM60 error can probably be fixed by downloading"VB6 runtimes" and installing them. You should be able to find them easily. The last version I saw were VB6SP4.They are small and very easy to install and will not cause any hassles even if they do not solve the error.

Its possible the Win-zip install error may be fixed by installing the runtimes to.
John Grieve (367)
81686 2002-09-21 12:34:00 They're also on this months PCWorld CD. Check here (mystuff.orcon.net.nz) for back dates.. SoniKalien (792)
81687 2002-09-21 20:47:00 Thanks Chris,John and Soni.Have downloaded the VB6 runtimes so will try installing them. Neil McC (178)
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