I installed Kernel EX version 4.0 RC2 today and it rendered my computer useless. All I had was a blank desktop with a mouse pointer I could move around. I was able to uninstall it from safe mode and I also had an image I made just in case. I do have the required unicows.dll file installed so what else may have gone wrong?

Thanks

Moved post from Windows 98 discussion group to here and responded to RetroOS questions.


- What version of Windows do you have? 98SE
- Do you have any older version of KernelEx already installed? If so, was/did it uninstall correctly? This is my first attempt.

If you are running Windows 98SE:
- Do you have an older version of Revolutions Pack 7 or earlier installed? No
- Do you have MDGx's 98SE2ME installed? No
- Do you have the unofficial service pack 2 or 3 installed? No, an older version of sp1.
- Have you installed soporific's Auto-Patcher 98SE? No

Please post version and date of following files:

kernel32.dll 4.0 RC2
shell32.dll 4.72.3812.600, 1/2/2000
gdi32.dll 4.10.2227, 1/2/2000
gdi.exe 4.10.2227, 1/2/2000
explorer.exe 4.72.3612.1700, 1/29/1999

You could try installing the Unofficial 98SE Service Pack 3.0 beta 3:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61749

I decided to try a reinstall and this time it worked with no apparent problems so far.

I maybe spoke too soon. It seems that every cold boot, I get a blank desktop with a working mouse, but nothing else. When I restart, everything is back to normal. This has happened several times. This morning, I was greeted by the BIOS screen and exiting from that, the blank screen. I will try putting all of my startup programs in compatibility mode and see if that fixes it.

No luck, another cold boot and restart failure made me decide to uninstall KernelEX. Just not stable on my otherwise stable system. Great project, hope I can use it in the future. The BIOS startup mentioned before I believe was something else as I shutdown an unintended restart.