Subj : Redo ?
To   : JEFF GUERDAT
From : JEAN PARROT
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 10:21 am

         Jeff, a nice summer day to you !

        A large decision awaits me today !

        A redo of XP Pro on my Athlon 1.2. It will not boot from CD,
  it boots semi-normally and stops on a window saying that vsiinit.dll
  and then vsdata.dll are missing as I might be missing a security
  something. This all happened as I was trying to read a Readme.doc
  from a Lexmark printer information file. I would click on it and it
  would open Word for a 1/2 second then clear the screen. I looked at
  the Properties for that .doc file and the path had in it
  "Notepad.exe" then the file name. I tried as much as I could to get
  it to open in Word with the ensuing results. Now, Word will not
  open, I can not repair Office either by reloading it over itself,
  nor delete it as the same window come up, it says after the end of
  the path for a required file that sr1.patch is missing. I forget
  when the patch to Office was done but it is quite a while ago.

        I went into BIOS to boot from CD and try a Repair of XP but it
  still boots from D:\, the funny (???) part is that even if I shut
  down the system, it comes on screen with the same page all the time,
  a view of the Lexmark page where that .doc is located.

        I will try again today to do a Repair but if it does not boot
  from CD, I guess that I am done. As it is, my BIOS is still set to
  boot from CD but it again booted as normal, if you overlook these
  strange windows. I am not blaming XP at all, the munging took place
  in Office or Lexmark information, methinks. Ouff ! BW is working
  fine and ZOC too. But, I can not refresh ZA....go search.

        Thanks for getting this far in reading this post.

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