>When I start up my computer, I get the message that vmm32.vxd cannot be found. It then goes and says
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>You can safely turn off your computer.
>If you want to restart your computer, press CTRL+ALT+DEL
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>I am running Windows 98. Any ideas why I would get this message.
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Yep - you blew up (at a minimum) the \Windows\System directory - boot to safe mode and reinstall over the top - if you didn't completely frob the registry, reinstall should rebuild in place without doing much worse than requiring you to reinstall patches again afterwards.