Ripping Audio CD Problems

[Guest Job]

Re: Ripping Audio CD Problems

 

It definitely helps. Hope I never need it but am going to

run off a hard copy and keep it safe. This is valuable

information to have available as long as I keep ME (which I

really like and does everything that need). I guess if I

ever upgrade to XP the info will be in an entirely different

location but that's for another day, another time.

 

Again, I truly appreciate your help and patience. I'll get

out of your hair now and may 2008 bring you good health and

happiness.

 

Ta.

 

"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message

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Job <iam@best.slow> wrote:

> How about an OT question Mike.

 

No problem. It's quiet here and it's not as if anyone else

is posting

anything interesting. :-)

> In the past posters have reported getting errors that a

> particular .exe, .dll, etc. was not found. You responded

> that the particular file was not part of the basic ME

load.

> How can I determine what files constitutes an ME load?

>

> Take care.

 

Perhaps easiest done by checking whether the file is

included in the Win

Me cab set which should be found at C:\Windows\Options\Cabs

(if the

installation was from OEM media) or

C:\Windows\Options\Install (if the

installation was from Microsoft media) or in the Win9x

folder if you have

a Win Me install CD (not an OEM recovery disk). Some OEMs

have been known

to place the folder containing the cab files in another

partition

(incidentally I do this also) or to omit it entirely, the

last often being

the cause for many users over the years having problem when

installing usb

devices or wanting to create a Win Me boot floppy.

 

Once you have located the cabs run a search on the folder

but rather than

looking for the file by placing its name in the "Search for

files or

folders named" box put the file name you are looking for in

the

"Containing text" box. This will then located the cab file

containing the

required file which can then be extracted from the cab file

by double

clicking on the cab file, selecting the required file and

dragging it to

the desktop. Be careful however about trying to replace

files in this way

as you may hit Win Me's system file protection mechanism and

therefore

have to make the actual file replacement from DOS (after

booting from a

floppy).

 

Note that are a few, a very few, special files that for some

reason have

different names in the cab files from those used when in Win

Me. One that

immediately comes to mind is marscore.dll which is found in

win_12.cab but

as marspch.dll. There are other files built during the

installation of

the operating system such as sfpdb.db which you won't find

in the cab

files.

 

Note also that the file vmm32.vxd on a Win Me system is a

composite file

created during the installation of Win Me that when built

contains thirty

or more virtual device drivers (vxd files) and is not the

file vmm32.vxd

in win_20.cab which is the container or template used when

constructing

the real vmm32.vxd. Files built into vmm32.vxd when

installing Win Me

include ifsmgr.vxd, shell.vxd and vcache.vxd.

 

I hope this helps.

--

Mike M