please wait while windows updates your configuration files

[[KwestSeeker]]

i'm running win98se. i woke up the other morning after leaving emule running the whole night. i turn on my computer and find out my firewall had crashed (Agnitum Outpost 1.0) with a kernell32.dll illegal operation. i quit emule and restart my computer and to my surprise i see "please wait while setup updates your configuration files", now why would this appear if i hadn't installed absolutely nothing before? could it be that the firewall crashing allowed some unwanted intrusions that may have changed something? also i get a alot of netbios requests which my firewall blocks. how dangerous are these? I'm considering upgrading to win2kpro any feedback on it?

thanks in advance.

[Elistas]

I used to find that when Win98/Me would become corrupt or crash for some reason, on the next boot I would sometimes get that same message. Windows doesn't actually know if you installed something or not recently, only that certain variables are in place to bring up that message and do whatever changes to the system that it's told.

If you have the hardware to support it, I would STRONGLY recommend upgrading to either Windows 2000 or Windows XP. You won't regret it, unless of course you have a Pentium II or lower.

[hawkburn]

If I can remember when I had Win98, when a DLL became corrupted, missing, deleted itself, became infected with virii, or something else, my computer automatically closed that program, with the Illegal Operation error as its excuse.

When I restarted, it ran ScanDisk, and then said the configuration file thing. It could have found a bad sector on your HDD, tried to repair it, and then tell itself that this part is wrong and that is what its "configuring" in your configuration files. :wings

[lizardsforall]

Windows 98 is like a little kid, it want's to be intellegent, but it's still stupid.

whenever some system modifications are done, rebooting the machine w/o proper restart/shutdown, kernel errors, registry errors, and the like, Windows will try to recover or reinstall certain things after such operations occur. that's why the nifty "please wait while setup updates your configuration files" message.

NetBios, like tcp/ip, can be used for good and bad, if you have a firewall, and all of your programs and internet work, go ahead and let it block them.

About the OS, there was a large discussion about the better OS, other than Mac, and Linux... Windows 2000 vs. Windows XP (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=14971)

[Omyn]

At home I have a 300mhz computer with windows xp on it and it runs perfectly smooth.

Not at all laggy, so there is no reason not to upgrade.

[[KwestSeeker]]

thanks y'all. on my way to a clean wink2 install... i've been using win98 for almost 5 years now. time for a change lol.

[Omyn]

[KwestSeeker], there there it will be ok.

*Dusts off kwestseeker*

There good as new.

[origin]

in my opinion by updating or upgrading windows it only helps it to become messed up faster...but I had the same sorta problem with 98SE on my old PC but I got a new pc with XP pro and i'm livin large! lol

Operating system:Windows XP professional Time since installed:1 day,2 hours,5 minutes, 20 seconds.

well at least for now :aim

[rainbowdemon]

']thanks y'all. on my way to a clean wink2 install... i've been using win98 for almost 5 years now. time for a change lol.
I have Windows 2000 Pro. I was considering changing to XP. But the more I thought about it, the more I came to realize that 2000 is a fine OS. IMO you've made a good choice.

[aqlo]

It was part of 98's recovery from crashes to rerun that if any of the configuration files were open, even if it was only a read. I believe it has been corrected since then, I never see it anymore. I used to use it if I had messed up my configuration, I would just turn the box off and on and it would reinstall drivers I had messed up.

[rctempire]

Well i have to say that your windows was like my old os when i had win98SE

Ok we wiped the hdd then reinstalled windows again

but since i wanted space i installed a new hdd and have xp on my hdd and we have a dual boot system with no problems since i left my other side i dont have any problems now

RCTEMPIRE