My husband has Win98SE on his PC and won't even THINK of upgrading, stubborn fellow that he is. He's been trying to get his CH Flight Sim yoke to work, but the system simply won't recognize it; it keeps saying that it is not installed. He has a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card with a separate game port.
He went to the CH website and did some troubleshooting; it said that he needed to install DirectX.
And so we downloaded and installed the Direct X from Microsoft that the yoke website said he needed, and when I rebooted, right when it went to load up the desktop, a window appeared that said: "A required .DLL file, WINDOWS/SYSTEM/SHLWAPI.DLL was not found." Then when I hit enter or clicked on the "OK" thing, another window appeared that said: "Error loading Explorer.exe. You must reinstall Windows." I tried booting up in safe mode and it did the same thing. Repeatedly.
So what am I supposed to do with that? Was it the Direct X that did that? My husband said why didn't I just uninstall the Direct X, but I can't even do that if I can't get Windows to boot up! Do I really have to reinstall Windows and oh is he gonna have a cow, a horse, and other assorted barnyard critters if I do!
And the BIG question.... how did *I* get to be the computer person in this house???