Early November of 04, I was working on a friend's PC. It is a Compaq LTE5300, 1.3 gig drive, win 95.

I was trying to uninstall AOL. There was no uninstaller, so I search and found all the files which had the letters AOL, and deleted the ones with the triangle logo. One gave me a "stystem file" prompt, and I deleted it anyway. That turned out to be gdi.exe.

Now the computer won't load windows, says gdi.exe is missing. It also doesn't appear to recognize D-drive, so I can't get it to reload windows.

Any ideas? Remember, I'm a very, very new computer tinkerer, and you'll have to phrase it as click here, an dpress this button.

Thanks for any and all help.
Christopher Young

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Second post

May as well put my best foot forward. Greetings, all. I'm here to ask help. I wa workign on a friend's comptuer, and decided to try to delete AOL. The short of it, I deleted gdi.exe, which seems to be necessary. It's a Compaq laptop, and has (had?) win 95. I've had a few suggestons how to restore this. But I'm a very new computer guy, and so "just copy a file off the win 9x disk and create a folder in dos" isn't any thing I can understand.
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I've got a win 95 Boot disk from the boot disk (dot com) site. And also a boot CD I got off Ebay. Any one want to give me some ideas hwo to make these work? I think with the floppy, I put it in, and then turn the comp on. Should read A drive as part of the warmup.

But what's the rest of the procedure?

Welcome to the Forums CAYoung.

The best thing would be to re-install Windows 95 from the CD, Check instuctions below:

You will need :

- WIN95 Boot Disk, if you don't have one you can download it from here:
http://www.bootdisk.com
- WIN95 CDROM

Put your Win95 CDROM and Boot disk in the drives.
Boot off your Win95 Boot disk (floppy drive)
Once it has booted you should be at the DOS prompt.
Go to your CD-ROM drive by typing D:\ (and pressing enter)
[where "d" is the letter of the CD-ROM]
Now type SETUP and press enter.
This should start the Windows 95 Installation.

Check out this site for more instuctions (contains screenshots for the installation progress)
http://www.dewassoc.com/support/index.html