after reinstalling win98SE I then went on to install my broadband connection
had lots of problems but eventually after the 10th time it loaded with difculty
and it advised me that I had some corupt files re connection,so i went into connection wizard and found that I had the following corupt files
Icwconn2 advised cannot start
Icwp corrupted
Icwrmind nothing
Icwx25a corrupted
Icwx25b ditto
Icwx25c ditto
I signup corrupted
Msicw ditto
msn ditto

Isent all the corrupter files to the rubbish bin without any problems
now to how they were corrupted
As I have anothere m/c and no progams or disks have been on both m/cs I installed broad band on the other m/c had the same problems and found that the above file had also been corrupter on this m/c.so it my broadband isp who corrupted these files but they cannot help
I am going to get coies of these files from another source and copy them across

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