Help! Win98SE Update Problem

[trainee]

After installing 2 updates and rebooting I'm getting this darn fatal, any suggestions (I know, stay away from MS Updates!) would be appreciated, thanks in advance for your help!

INSTALLER caused an invalid page fault in
module INSTALLER.EXE at 017f:00402f74.
Registers:
EAX=00402f74 CS=017f EIP=00402f74 EFLGS=00010a86
EBX=00540000 SS=0187 ESP=0064fe3c EBP=0064ff78
ECX=8174aedc DS=0187 ESI=8174aebc FS=3407
EDX=8174af1c ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Stack dump:
bff8b560 00000000 8174aebc 00540000 74736e49 656c6c61 58450072 00000045 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Dell Dimension 4100
128mg RAM
P3 - 1g CPU
Sound Blaster Live
NVidia

[ktkendall]

Did U try safe mode?? U may end up reinstalling, U can just use the win98 cd and do an install on top of the present on and that should fix it and save all your programs and data.

[mark70]

Restart in dos- at prompt type scanreg .exe. it should give you a choice to restore to an earlier cab file. This may solve your problem without having to reinstall windows. worth a try!

[ktkendall]

Yes see if U can press F8 right before windows begins to load and get the alternate boot menu and you should be able to go to command prompt and as far as I know the command to restare the registry from the command prompt is:
scanreg /restore

HTH

[trainee]

I tried turning back the hands of time but it didn't help, so for some unknown reason I desided to run find for Installl.exe and low and behold I found a new verson, hmm??? I deleted the new (second) instance and all is good!

Thanks again for your help!