KRNL386.exe missing from ME?

Question

KRNL386.exe missing from ME is there an easy way to fix this? windows wont finish booting even in safe mode. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Boot from the floppy(our use windows 98 booable cd), copy extract.exe from the CD to c:\

To find krnl386.exe, issue this command:

extract /A /D D:\win98\win98_22.cab krnl386.exe | more

D:\ is your CD drive letter.
This will search consecutively through all .cab starting from win98_22.cab

When you have found it extract with:

extract D:\win98\win98_xx.cab krnl386.exe

This will put the file in C:\, copy it to C:\windows\system

Hopefully things will then be ok.

Answer 2

It can be caused by the related to the Web3000 Network spyware. This program loads during startup, check your startup , Start -> Run -> msconfig -> Startup tab , if you have krnl386.exe here , uncheck it . Scan your system with good antivirus.

Answer 3

I would say you need to reinstall windows!
i recommend getting something besides ME though... maybe fedora core 6 (its free) but preferably windows xp (it's fast, secure, and tons more support than ME)