[Nita Nupress]

Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated!

[Luis Gonzalez]

Hmmmm...

Nita Nuputer

[thoughtomator]

Make a boot floppy, copy the missing DLL to it, boot you dad's machine with the floppy, copy the file to the proper place, reboot without the floppy.

[Dog Gone]

dll files to download for free

[BigSkyFreeper]

Does that mean all I have to do is cut & paste the WININET.DLL file to his Win/System folder and then reboot the machine?

Yep, and while your at it, reinstall Nortons, that should take care of those other errors.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Many times when you've inadvertently deleted system files the fix is actually no more complicated than replacing the missing file. If you've got the missing .dll, just try copying it back into the windows\system folder and reboot.

[dennisw]

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?wininet

[Xenalyte]

Does that mean all I have to do is cut & paste the WININET.DLL file to his Win/System folder and then reboot the machine? It can't be that easy.

On occasion, it is indeed that easy.

Actually, when you reboot at first, I'd boot into Safe Mode (press F8 during boot - I don't know when exactly, so I start pressing it as soon as the DOS screen comes up).

Once it boots into Safe Mode nicely, walk around the room for one minute . . . reboot normally . . . and let us know what happens.

[Petronski]

I know nothing about this site, but here goes:

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?wininet

[Azzurri]

Just tell your dad it's Al Gore's fault. He didn't make the Internet robust enough when he invented it. Good luck!

[BigSkyFreeper]

PROGRA~1 / NEWDOT~1 / NEWDOT~2.DLL"

This is spyware trying to load at bootup. Run MSCONFIG (click the start button than click "run" and type msconfig and click the OK button). From there click the "Startup" tab and look at the list of programs there and uncheck "Newdot". Click "Apply" then "OK". The computer asks if you want to reboot, click "Yes", the computer will reboot, and Newdot won't attempt to load.

[Nita Nupress]

Amazing. Somehow I forgot to mention that he's running WIN '98 2nd edition and using IE6.

[Izzy Dunne]

I have a Win2000 system.

It has a "WinInet.dll" in
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\WinInet.dll

Another in
C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\WinInet.dll

and yet another in
C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\ADAPTEC SHARED\SYSTEM\WinInet.dll

You really should consider getting a Mac/Linus/RedHat/SuSE/eComStation/Opera/Mozilla/Safari/(fill-in-the-blank), you won't have to deal with this. ;->

[VOA]

bump

[Dog Gone]

Of course, you can take the approach that I did last week. After getting frustrated with my computer, I ordered a new one.

Unfortunately, my wife feels that my decision entitled her to order wood flooring to replace our carpet. I'm not sure you can win in these situations...

[go star go]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/fileversion/default.asp?vartarget=msdn

this site will allow you to find out what product installs a dll. i didn't check but i believe the dll you're missing is installed by internet explorer on win98. also, norton or adware could have quaranteened the dll in question.

[Senator Pardek]

I was gonna link to the Google Image Page for "blonde" - but I viewed it and decided it was not such a good idea.

[McGruff]

Try downloading it from this link, copy to floppy and put on your computer.

[visualops]

Newdot is part of spyware. Probably you deleted part of it but not all.
Secondly, if your Dad's machine is factory made (HP, Compaq, etc), then the Win98 install files are probably on the hard drive in the Windows folder (Windows\Options\Cabs).
These two articles might help you:
Description of the System File Checker Tool (Sfc.exe)

HOW TO: Extract Original Compressed Windows Files

[Senator Pardek]

Seriously - when I was installing my DSL software a few years ago, the disc I got was screwed up and it kept telling me that files (.dll) were missing. I would just look for them on the net and download them to the installation folder. I was shocked that it worked.