win98 and speedguide troubleshooting page

[rainallday]

is there anyway to explain the windows 98 drivers bug fixes in newbie terms?? like extracting files, how to do that? and where to look for cab 47, 48 etc......
Ive reinstalled 98 am am having troubles with start-up, restart ect not loading to desktop, with vxd errors, and also having explorer "illegal operations" from stack dumps etc..... I know where the stuff on speedguide is, I just cant execute the instructions, from lack of experience....
thanks for any help :confused: :confused:

[YeOldeStonecat]

I use Winzip 8 to extract them manually. The cabs that they refer to are compressed installation files. If you have a Windows 95 cd-rom, they are in the directory called Win95. Same pattern for Windows 98, in the Win98 directory of the cd-rom, be it full blown version, or the upgrade version, it's the same exact files. You can actually do a full install from the upgrade cd with a trick.

If you have an OEM computer, meaning prebuilt such as a Compaq, HP, etc, they are most likely in a directory on your hard drive called C:\Windows\Options\Cabs. Just do a search for *.cab, if they are on your hard drive, that will show you where they are. You will see Base#.cab, Driver#.cab, net#.cab, Win98_#.cab where # is a number from 1 to 84 or something like that.

Just find the current files already on yoru hard drive they want you to replace, make a backup copy of them in some directory that you make, then extract the new ones from the cabs using Winzip or your favorite uncompressing software.