>I found out by accident that if I bootup in "Command prompt only" mode and >then from the C:> prompt enter "WIN", I can get into Win95 without problems >and that all programs still seem to run fine. > >My question is: Although this work around works, it makes me nervous to >have such a dire sounding error message show up so: > >What do you think is causing the problem and How can I fix it. > >Any help would be much appreciated. > >Oh yea, I also have Win NT 4.0 installed on another drive and it boots up >fine. > >Ed Boot like that and reinstall W95. There's one possibility that some of your vxds has gone off and it can't cram them all into one file - reinstall should fix that. The cruel way, if after reinstall it still doesn't work, is to delete the registry from DOS, kill all the .exe, .dll, .vxd, .386 and .ini files (did I miss something?) and perform an install from DOS - this install is clean enough not to inherit the errors from the old registry, and yet you keep your long filenames, icons, lnk files, menu etc. The downside is that most of the other stuff's registry entries fly away, but you may export them before this (if you know where to look for them - some things install into various parts of the registry), get nice .reg files and dblclick them later to get them back into the new registry. And, yes, it takes whole day. I've had a faulty processor which has done me enough damage a month ago, so I've had to do it.