RJM

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PsycoUnc, What I am trying to say, is that as eidenk said back on page 10 about this problem, is that some registry cleaners will remove registry entries in VarLDID. While this was not an issue for Win98 users it was for Win ME users, as a web search will confirm. And as there is no posting of the VarLDID section of the registry on the web for Win98 as there was no problem with the add/remove windows components with Win98. I decided to post it here as the problem will probably surface in the future as more people try 98SE2ME.

Mystery solved. Quote: eidenk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2|SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\VarLDID Not sure of course this is the cause of your problem. PS : I am a Win ME user. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I started over last weekend with an old backup, windows add/remove worked, installed Gapes SP2.01, windows add/remove worked, backed up my registry and then ran 98SE2ME.Windows add/remove did not work. I restored my registry from the backup and it still did not work. I then went to my unmodified version of WIN98SE on another machine and compared the registry entries under VarLDID. In the version that I had run 98SE2ME on the entries28720, 29600, 29601, 29602, 30400 were missing before I had run the update. When I was looking for this problem on the web I could only find this problem as being a Windows ME problem. It seems that Windows 98SE does not care if these five registry entries are missing but with the updated files from Win ME it does. Below are the correct registry entries for VarLDID for Windows 98SE. In case this problem ever shows up again as I could only find the entries for Windows ME VarLDID on the web. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\VarLDID] "28700"="C:\\PROGRA~1" "28701"="C:\\Program Files" "28702"="C:\\PROGRA~1" "28710"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\ACCESS~1" "28720"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\ACCESS~1\\HYPERT~1" "28730"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1" "28732"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1" "28740"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1" "28742"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1" "29000"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\INTERN~1" "29001"="C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer" "29002"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\INTERN~1" "29400"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\INTERN~1\\CONNEC~1" "29401"="C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\Connection Wizard" "29402"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\INTERN~1\\CONNEC~1" "29600"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\Chat" "29601"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\Chat" "29602"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\Chat" "29800"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\NETMEE~1" "29801"="C:\\Program Files\\NetMeeting" "29802"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\NETMEE~1" "30000"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\OUTLOO~1" "30001"="C:\\Program Files\\Outlook Express" "30002"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\OUTLOO~1" "30100"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system" "30400"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\Plus!\\Themes" "30800"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\WINDOW~1" "30801"="C:\\Program Files\\Windows Media Player" "30802"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\WINDOW~1"

eidenk, Thanks, I'll look into that. I was browsing the web and came accross the same .reg file and I think I know what might have happened. You see I like to keep the size of my windows directory as small as possible and last year had used COA2 to move my program files directory to my E drive. I am wondering if some how they were changed back to my C drive. I will try moving my program files directory back when I get home tonight and start from there. Again thanks.

Also noted, that when you click on ok in the blank add/remove windows components window the error window rundll32 hit ignore to save your work or hit close and when you hit close rundll32 this program has performed an illeagle operation and will close I'll go back and try removing programs this week end when I have more time. Thanks.

MDGX, I noticed that last week on my computer that add/remove windows components was In add remove programs was blank. Since I have 98SE2.01 and 98SETOME installed on my computer I restored my system from a backup that I made last December. After this add/remove windows components worked normally, I then installed 98SE2.01 and it continued to work normally. When I installed 98SETOME (6/11/05) add/remove windows components was once again blank? Has anyone else seen this? And do you have any ideas about this? RJM System HP vectra VL-600 600 MHz P-III EB 256M rdram Maxtor 10G (partitioned c (windows), e (programs)) WD 80G (partitioned d (windows), f(swap), g (programs) TDK 32X CD R/W ZIP 100 Phillips sound card Matrox G250 video card I mainly boot off the D drive and only boot to the C drive to back up and restore the D drive