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(Message started by: J.ten_Dam on Aug 1st, 2003, 11:22am)

Title: computer expert needed
Post by J.ten_Dam on Aug 1st, 2003, 11:22am
:D Is there someone that can help me restore system info on my boyfriends computer?
It is missing C:\windows\system\CRTDLL.DLL also missing MSNP32.dll and win98\rasaapi32.dll
Thank you in advance for reading and mabe helping me.
Regards Joke ten Dam

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Live4Fun on Aug 1st, 2003, 11:25am
Do a search on the internet for the dll's you need. Download and copy them to a floppy and then copy them to your boyfriends machine. That should do the trick.

Hope this helps.  :)

Bryan

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by FrankF on Aug 1st, 2003, 11:30am
Download here: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index.shtml

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Kirk on Aug 1st, 2003, 12:22pm
Weell you could put a computer operating system on it rather than a windows operating system, and avoid the problem altogether ;D


TTFN

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Opus on Aug 1st, 2003, 2:55pm
Ok Kirk, Give it up,

What flavor is you Linux?

Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake, Lindows, ect?

Someone who is almost ready is looking to where they should throw there $150 (10010100)  


Opus/Paul

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Kirk on Aug 1st, 2003, 3:27pm
Red Hat 9.0 for power users
Mandrake for first timers.
Slackware for those that like to roll thier own.
Debian just because it's good.
SuSe because Germans just engineer the hell out of anything.
FreeBSD 4.7 for those that really want to do something seriouse.

My Web server (Apache), Email server (Qmail) and FTP server (Wu-FTPD)  DNS server (TinyDNS) are all Red Hat. Just because I wanted to try it and am to lazy to change it
My Toshiba Satellite laptop Mandrake 9.1
My home PC is a quad Xeon with a dual boot system. FreeBSD 5.0 (Beta) and Win 2003 server.
I use Posstgres SQL for my database although I have Oracle 9i and DB2.

I'm just to lazy to run Microsoft by itself.

TTFN

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Kirk on Aug 1st, 2003, 3:33pm
I just realized you're actually going to spend money on an operating system!! Are  you nuts? Spend it on Meds dude.
What the hell is this world coming to? Spending money on an operating system! Applications yes, but an operating system. Get real.

Hell Email me your address and I'll send you the flavor of your choice. Jeeze.

TTFN

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Drk^Angel on Aug 1st, 2003, 5:11pm
And here I thought you'd of built your own Linux OS from scratch Kirk... LOL

J.ten_Dam... You can install the Win98 OS on top of the existing installation, which should restore any missing or corrupted DLLs needed by Windoze itself (Remember to run Windows Update after the installation is done).  If any of the DLLs are third party provided, just reinstall the programs that installed them.

PFDAN............................ Drk^Angel

P.S.  Or ya can do like others said, and download 'em from the DLL download sites.

DA

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Prense on Aug 1st, 2003, 5:18pm
I just pull out the cassette tape with the appropriate file name on it, and stick it in the radio shack player and fast forward to the numbers that I scribled on the tiny little lable.  Then I press play and listen to the funny noises for a little bit until I get to the second set of numbers that I scribbled down on the cassette tape label.  I think I once tried to press play and fast forward at the same time to see if I could get the file to load faster, but that was definately a no/go.  Sumthin like that.   ;D

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Opus on Aug 1st, 2003, 6:56pm
Thanks Kirk, sounds like you are a power user. E-mail on the way.

Prense, What no punch cards?

Joke, click start/program/accesseries/system tools/system information, when the program comes up click tools/system file checker/ click setting then check "check for deleated files" then run scan, you will be promted to replace deleated files from windows disk, the msn files won't be able to be replaced with this, unless you have the disk.  You also can replace the files manually if you know the files location, windows system is ussually a good guess. Any apps missing files can also be fixed by reinstalling them, and as Drk says windows too.

By the way if you have XP you are out of luck.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Mark C on Aug 1st, 2003, 9:47pm

on 08/01/03 at 18:56:27, Opus wrote:
By the way if you have XP you are out of luck.

Opus/Paul



Not Quite....System Restore (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/itpro/managing/restore.asp)

;D   ;D



Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by jminmilwaukee on Aug 1st, 2003, 9:58pm
As a Network Engineer, I would have to admit that Windows is the most insecure waste of money for sure.

Having said that, I believe that majority of windows users actually left there mothers basement while growing up and enjoyed something called life.

Although I must admit that a quad zeon will get you some tail most any night of the week, there is still hope for those who actually put down the cheetos and leave the house every now and then.

Not to rip on power geeks as I have made an alright living ourt of tech but c'mon, when is the last time you rebuilt a carb?

8)

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by jminmilwaukee on Aug 1st, 2003, 9:59pm
By the way, that was just a friendly jab.

Whatever floats your boat and pays your bills is what is most important.

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Opus on Aug 1st, 2003, 10:15pm
Mark,
  Like I said you are "out of luck"

jmin,
  You didn't totally direct your question so I will answer, I rebuilt a carb last week, so what, who doesn't.

Although I am not a power user I had a lot of fun making my  450PIII with win98 seem as fast as a 1.7gigP4 on xp.

I have been dreaming of that dual 3gig zeon with the scsi hard drives and rimms that I saw for 2 grand but since that is more than I am worth I guess I really don't want it becouse the case is too small.

Opus who does more than puters

http://www.gravelyinfo.com/pjbgravely

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Mark C on Aug 1st, 2003, 10:37pm
Say what you will about Windows...most of it is true...that being said I have a pretty nice box with XP Pro at home. I have had two (2) ! BSOD in slightly over a year...not bad for Windows.  On my old 98 box I would get that many every 12 hours or so. You really gotta button up a Windows box, very insecure as shipped....imagine that!  :-/

Hey Opus, system restore has saved my ass a couple of times so far. It ain't a cure all but it has it's place.

I also did a tune-up on my old Ford just yesterday! Plugs, wires, cap and button, runs like a top!

Vroom Vroom!
Mark

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Kirk on Aug 2nd, 2003, 1:32am
Well I changed the hydraulic pump for the Gurdies on the boat Tuesday and went Salmon fishing on Wed.  Ddoes that count. :)

TTFN

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by jminmilwaukee on Aug 2nd, 2003, 9:44am
Yes it counts. Point taken. ;D

In my line of work I am constantly dealing with people who know a fair amount and then talk down to or belittle those who are not quite as savy.

This is normally just arrogance and an attempt to make up for a small "cpu". Kind of like the middle aged balding man driving a convertable BMW.

I can see now that you all were just having fun at no ones expense and therfor retract my earlier statement regarding your mothers basement.

BTW - I've got my eye on that BMW but the hairline has not reached the point of justification yet.


Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Opus on Aug 2nd, 2003, 11:22am
Well it looks like the geeks on this board have some mechanical ability too, I'm really not a geek just a wannabe.  Some day I will grow up and learn how to really program, Anyone out there think Python is worth learning. VB seems bizzar to me.

Mark,
  I think I have a crash proof win 98 installation now. Changing the shell really makes a diffrence, though I will see what happens when I try to merge those two 500meg tiff files.

Opus/Paul


Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Kirk on Aug 2nd, 2003, 11:39am
I'm still using PERL, but I have heard a lot of good things about Python. The new Python 2.3 came out recently and is supposed to be even more powerful.

If I knew have as much as I'm supposed to. I'd be damned dangerouse.

TTFN

Kirk

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by jonny on Aug 2nd, 2003, 12:16pm

on 08/01/03 at 22:37:26, Mark C wrote:
Hey Opus, system restore has saved my ass a couple of times so far. It ain't a cure all but it has it's place.


LMAO ;D......A couple dozen times for me.....LOL ;D

.......................jonny

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by FrankF on Aug 2nd, 2003, 12:33pm
The original subject of this thread was....

Quote:
Is there someone that can help me restore system info on my boyfriends computer?
It is missing C:\windows\system\CRTDLL.DLL also missing MSNP32.dll and win98\rasaapi32.dll
Thank you in advance for reading and mabe helping me.
Regards Joke ten Dam


Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Mark C on Aug 2nd, 2003, 5:32pm
OK...Frank made me feel guilty.. ;D...I still have a 98 box running in the corner.
You can find the files you requested are  here. (http://drfeller.com/Mark/missingdll.zip)

Hey Opus, that other 98 box was a Compaq art deco toaster looking kinda crap. I think the PSU were junk. PC would only run a few hours at a time before CRASH.

Later!
Mark

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by andy on Aug 2nd, 2003, 7:03pm
Win 98 on a home built Athlon PC, Thinking about Linnux. Roxio Go-back has saved my ass lots of times.         ............andy

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Opus on Aug 2nd, 2003, 7:57pm
Frank,
 The person who started this thread has yet to give us an update, so we will hang out here until they do.

Mark,
  You keep referring to machines as to what there OS's are. You can run Win 98 on old and new machines, with a lot of tweaking Win 98 can approach a real operating system with few crashes, my mother has a 2 gighz P4 with XP pro and my old machine can run rings around hers. As for hard number crunching hers wins every time but XP slows every thing down so much it makes my 450 mhz look like a champ. If you want I can send you some links, I even found a way to fix crash happy windows me.

Andy,
   I just got Roxio with Norton system works and I was thinking about trying it, How bad does it fill your hard drive? I still like to do recovery from the Ultimate boot disk.

Kirk,
 Python is very intriguing,  I want to see if my daughter could learn to write simple programs on it like I wrote Basic programs on the commodore 64.




Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by andy on Aug 2nd, 2003, 8:11pm
Opus, i got Norton systemworks pro that came with Roxio go back basic. I upgraded to go-back 3 deluxe for around $20. I think that it only uses about 10 percent of your hard drive. Its well worth it. I havent tried Ghost yet. It looks to be usefull also. Happy computing    ...............andy

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Mark C on Aug 2nd, 2003, 8:13pm
Thanks Opus,
Currently have in the stable the following in operation...
  • Gateway P2 @ 450 mhz w/win95c, good box!
  • Old IBM Aptiva w P1 @ 200 mhz w/Win 98SE
  • Compaq P3 @ 733mhz w/Win2000Pro
  • Dell 8200 P4 @ 1.9 mhz w/ XP Pro


I have done a lot of tweaking to XP, my original version was very unsecure out of the box and is still a battle to keep secure. I would be grateful for any links you may have to share, us Windoze users need all the help we can get!

See ya!
Mark

Title: Re: computer expert needed
Post by Opus on Aug 2nd, 2003, 8:49pm
These are freeware programs that I currently use with no bugs that I have found.

Get fresh UI, a utility to control windows settings increase processor priorities and speed, force win to use all memory before going to swap space, split shell from explorer, increase all caches, go slow and save settings after each few tweaks, read all warnings, also a good download manager and benchmark testing. 98-XP advanced users for UI
    http://www.freshdevices.com/

For a Zip utility that's can even handle tar files, uses right click options in windows explorer, and runs fast, it also can back up IE favorites and outlook addresses and mail.
http://www.zipgenius.it/ 98-XP


For a great boot disc with restore programs and Hard drive format/copiers. Include Ranish which can erase an entire hard drive to zeros. Tweaks is great too.  for advanced users. 98, me
http://www.startdisk.com/

For a memory manager that keeps windows from leaking memory get max mem. You have to manually configure to start automatically.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system.htm
I have tried the other programs and only had problems with dl archive
home site  http://www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm

bot /Trojan remover, also has tools for windows start list with reasons for keeping or disabling programs. works great, web updates
http://spybot.eon.net.au/

Adware remover, works good, web updates
http://www.lsfileserv.com/software/adaware/

The best photo, sound, movie utility, brings up files very fast in windows explorer, can show all photo's as thumbnails in explorer. get plug-in to replace Windows media player, real player and quicktime as default players.
http://www.irfanview.com/

Y-kill, a window killer that will bring up a scull like the Linux killand make any window disappear instantly, no more waiting for windows tostop a hung program. It can also shutdown windows without and desktop, alt/control/Y  file/sytem shutdown, check force and you are safely shutdown. 98-XP
http://www.goblineye.com/

Letter Assigner. Forces windows to make hard drives the letter of yourchoice. Great for removable drives. 95-me
http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/index.html

98lite, a windows 98 shell replacement, allows removal of IE, provides a more stable shell, can be used to put the non web win95 shell in place of the win98 shell, you must have win95 a or b disk. advances users 98-me

http://www.litepc.com/


To patch a fatal hole in most windows OS's use this program. 95-XP

http://grc.com/UnPnP/UnPnP.htm

check out there other software, I havn't tested any.

http://grc.com/freepopular.htm

I am continually updateing this list, if you want email version let me know.

Opus/Paul





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