My quick solution would be to uninstall WMP in safemode then restart the computer. If that dont work you should move your important data off the computer and buy windows XP home, much better then 98, but if you must live with 98, you need to unistall windows componets, you can do that off the cd or Add/Remove programs.
hope this helps
Sonny
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Win98SE on a Compaq 5842 computer. 500Mhtz Celeron processor, 256K ram.
My grandson recently tried to update WMP. He said that the update was for WIN98, can't verify that, but after checking out the Windows site, there is one available for WIN98.
So, after install, it said to reboot. He did, and is now stuck in Safe mode.
Since they are out of state I can't get my hands on it to try to undo things.
Just wondered if anyone else might have run into this problem, and might have a "simple" solution?

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