network neighborhood? missing?

[lotust]

hi, i just did a fresh install on a laptop. but i loaded it in a different PC. anyways it says at boot up unable to load the dynamic library
msnp32.dll
the system cannot find the specifed file
some or all of the following feature is not available
Microsoft Network

any one know how I can restore this? its a laptop I just reformated, but I did not have a win98 cd available for a short part og the INI process. thanks is you can help me.

I tred re installin dial up networking, is there a way at the command prompt to fix this?

 

[Russ]

Is the file missing? If so, just copy it off of another system. It resides in the windows/system directory.

Russ, NCNE

 

[lotust]

no it just cant load 🙁

 

[kingofslack]

Here's what you have to do:

If you're having the same problem I've had, you have two or three files that can't load when 98 starts up, all .vxd files. Remove and reinstall your NIC through device manager and restart. when you remove it, Windows will remove all references to the missing .vxd files, then when you reinstall it, it will reinstall the files necessary to establish network connections (and TCP/IP apps like telnet, ping, etc.) hope this helps,

Slack on...

 

[kingofslack]

Oh, and if you have a network neighborhood icon, you should remove client for microsoft networks and reinstall it by clicking add+client(I think)+client for microsoft networks. Do the same for Windows family logon if it's there. Or reinstall windows :0) LATER!

 

[shadow]

oh yeah, I had this problem too, the files were not being read properly off of the burnt 98cd I was installing from, turned out it was a bad CDROM.