I’ve been asked to tinker with a PC with some problems. It’s a little outside of my main frame of reference, so I thought I’d go to you guys… It’s a Windows 95 platform, lots of space, blah blah blah fishcakes.
Okay, every time it boots, it attempts to install something. Then I get:
Setup Initialization Error
Setup requires _SETUP.DLL and _ISRES.DLL (located in _SETUP.LIB) in order to operate properly.
Please ensure these files are located with SETUP.EXE
Now, there are a bunch of setup.exe programs on the computer. Are any of them really necessary, as a general rule? Also, I’ve noticed that when I tried to run scandisk and defrag (which they’ve never run :rolleyes: ) that they never can finish- I think that something is running that I can’t find and shut down with control alt delete.
According to the helpdesk at work, “re-install Windows”.
Since that’s probably not what you want to do, here’s a thought. Try installing Startup Cop. It’s a free utility from PCMag that will list for you everything that starts up on the computer, even the things that are normally damn hard to find. I expect there will be a “setup.exe” listed in that list, which you would want to stop from loading.
Someone else may have a better solution. I hate Windows.
Its just trying to find those files. Someone tried to install a program.
It’s probably a registry thing. Keep what’s on the hd & run the W95 setup from the cd & reinstall it on top of what’s there & youll have the same programs, etc.
I don’t remember if you can boot to DOS & run:
scanreg /restore
But that would be easiest if you can restore an old registry before the program was put on.
