Microsoft KB Archive/187905

= Removing Plus! 98 Deletes Desktop Themes and Maintenance Wizard =

Article ID: 187905

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Plus! 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q187905



SYMPTOMS
When you uninstall Plus! 98, the Desktop Themes tool in Control Panel and the Maintenance wizard may no longer work.



CAUSE
This behavior can occur if you uninstall Plus! 98 more than once.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, extract the following files from their cabinet files on the original Microsoft Windows 98 CD-ROM to the folders listed in the table below.   File         Cabinet File   Folder --

Themes.cpl  Win98_51.CAB   C:\Windows\System Themes.exe  Win98_60.CAB   C:\Program Files\Plus! Tuneup.exe  Win98_42.CAB   C:\Windows For information about how to extract files, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

129605 How to Extract Original Compressed Windows Files



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Plus! 98, version 1.0.



MORE INFORMATION
The first time you uninstall Plus! 98, the Themes.exe (Desktop Themes), Themes.cpl (Desktop Themes tool in Control Panel), and Tuneup.exe (Maintenance wizard) files are deleted but are restored from backup files, which are then deleted. If you uninstall Plus! 98 a second time, when these three files are deleted there are no backup files from which to restore them.

Additional query words: plus98 remove

Keywords: kbprb kbsetup KB187905

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