You’ll have seen this message before - it’s the one that appears everytime you (or at least I) change something in your network settings, or other Control panel item. Specifically, I keep changing the File/Print sharing status.
My question is how do I arrange it so that I never get this message? I know it’s possible because (somehow) I’ve managed to do it on my g/f’s computer. I seem to be able to change the network settings at will there, Win98 CD or no Win98 CD.
I’ve searched the net and this board, but I’m probably not using the correct terms. Thanks in advance.
When installing windows on a PC for the first time there is a trick you can use. Make a copy of the entire win98 CD onto a folder on the hard drive. Then run the installation from that folder, rather than the actual CD. This can fool windows into looking at that folder for more data when installing new windows features, instead of asking for the disk.
Another piece of advice is to do as full of an install as possible. That way, it hopefully won’t need to go back to the disk for more data so often.
This will work. What Windows is actually looking for are called CAB files denoted by the file extension .CAB. Copy all of the .CAB files somewhere on your hard drive and the next time you are asked for the Windows CD point it to the directory where you saved those files. In the future is should default to looking in that directory when it wants something from the Windows CD (I say should because Windows doesn’t always seem to take to that). Even if Windows still asks you this is worth doing since you need not dig up your Windows CD and drop it in the drive but rather just point it to the local files.
NOTE: If you are using Windows NT, 2000 or XP the files you want are kept in a directory called i386. Copy the i386 directory to your hard drive for the same effect as copying CAB files (although note that certain updates reading from the i386 directory may actually put some old drivers back on your PC thus necessitating runnning the latest Service Pack update again…sometimes Windows warns you of this but not always).
I feel your pain. I’m always changing a slight network setting and getting the boxes to re-install files that are already there. Why does changing a name or IP address need to reload any files, let alone 10?
What I do is tell windows to look in the directory the files are. E.g., windows\system usually. (Once typed, it’ll be there on the pull down list in the future.)
Last week I took out IPX/SX on a machine and for removing a protocol it thought it needed to copy secure32.dll again.
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