Weird Boot on Win98se then No more Office 2000?!

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From: judy (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/14/04

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    I recently ended a session on my laptop by shutting down.
    It froze instead of turning itself off as it sometimes
    does. After a minute or two I turned it off.

    Next day, I turned on the computer and got a error message
    about a system problem but it continued to boot but with a
    very small display area and no modem driver installed. It
    did not say safe mode in the four corners, as it was
    supposed to. I think I blew the registry somehow.

    I reselected the correct video driver
    I reselected the internal compaq modem driver
    logged onto windows update; got an "but your not an
    administrator" error message usu. only for windows xp
    users,
    reinstalled ie ver 6 from my harddrive
    got onto windows update and downloaded some critical
    updates.
    THEN I REALIZED THAT I COULDN'T USE ANY OF MY OFFICE 2000
    PROGRAMS! Although the program files seem to be intact, I
    get an error about them not being installed. I do not
    have access to an installation diskette to reinstall. How
    can I tell windows that the software IS installed??
    Please help! I need to continue my work and I need my
    msword to do it! Thank you everyone for your help!

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