[ldb]

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

[RetroOS]

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

http://www.msfn.org/...showtopic=61749

[ldb]

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

[ldb]

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.

[ldb]

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.