AboutKevin Expertise I`m familiar with Windows 95/98/XP problems and will try my best to assist you. Feel free to ask any software or hardware related questions.
Experience I started using computers over 10 years ago and have grown to both love and hate it to say the least. I have studied computer programming and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science.
Education/Credentials Bachelors in computer information science
3 of my programs - Info Select, Outlook Express and Quickbooks not working anymore. As I start , they will appear and disappear quickly. XP home and Firefox and some other programs are ok. The message I got after trying to restore to earlier dates (several times is
The application DLL:/windoessystem32/DDRAW is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation disk.
I have Spysweeper, Bitdefender working ok. I just did a reformat about 3 months ago and I really try not to through it again - was very very long task.
I tried to reformat and after the windows installation message appear and I press Install - I get a message that the version already installed on my computer is newer than the disk therefore can not install.... I still would like to solve this rather than formatting though.
Can you help here please?
Thank you, Gabe
Answer Hi Gabe, did you do any updates to this computer after you reinstalled Windows? Go to Start > Run and type in:
sfc /scannow
and hit ENTER. Leave it on the first option and click on Scan Now. See if it finds any changes. If so, you may be prompted to insert your Windows CD.
I doubt the above is the problem. That file should be associated with DirectX. If the above doesn't work, download the DirectX run-time install at:
