every time i try to open a picture a box come up sayingwindows cannot
find iexplore.exe. and when i try to open a music file a box comes up saying windows cannot find c/mplayer2exe...ive browsed though the pc
but cant find what its asking for..
is there anything else i can do instead of reinstalling win 98..??
please help..

Is this a new problem that just started recently?

Assuming this is a new problem you could try a scanreg /restore to restore the registry to a time before the problem began.

Using the scanreg /restore command