When I start up Windows 98 I have a problem. It says that I need ‘C:Progra~1freetel.vxd’ and that I must reinstall it. I must have deleted this by mistake and I can’t find this on my computer. How can I get rid of this annoying message and/or reinstall that file?

From what I have found, FreeTel seems to be a voice and text chat program. I have not installed or run this program but I have suggestions to solve your problem. VXD files stand for Microsoft Windows virtual device drivers. The files that you are missing seem to have been installed by the FreeTel program rather than Windows (since FreeTel isn’t included with Windows). Firstly, check your ‘Start up’ group to make sure that no FreeTel or related applications are executing when you start Windows. Do this by going to ‘Start menu’ > ‘Programs’ > ‘StartUp’. If any FreeTel or related applications are in there, delete them by right-clicking on the FreeTel item and clicking delete from the menu that appears (NB: Before you delete any applications from that group, open them first to make sure that they are Freetel or related software). Once you have done that, click ‘Start menu’ > ‘Run’ and type in the box ‘msconfig’ followed by pressing the ‘Ok’ button. This will bring up the ‘System Configuration Utility’. Once this has appeared, click the ‘System’ tab. Here you should see a list of applications. These are all of the applications that load at startup. You might be surprised at this point as to the number of applications that load at startup, compared with the small amount that the user sees in the ‘StartUp’ group on the Start menu. Scroll down the list of applications until you find an application like ‘FreeTel’ or like. When you have found this, click the box with the tick in it that is next to the name of the application (eg. FreeTel). The tick in the box should disappear. That means that application will not load at Startup anymore (NB: If the box DOESN’T have a tick in it before you click it, do not click it because that would put a tick in it and tell the program to load at startup which is not what we want). Click the ‘Ok’ button and click ‘Yes’ when/if a box comes up to ask you to ‘Save your changes’. Restart your computer and it should boot up without the error message coming up. If the error message still comes up, you should click the ‘Start menu’ > ‘Run’ and type in the box ’sysedit’ followed by the ‘Ok’ button. This will bring up the ‘System Configuration Editor’ (which is different to the ‘System Configuration Utility’ which we discussed before). Click the ‘SYSTEM.INI’ and locate the following lines in the [386ENH] section of the file:
Device=c:FreetelFreetel1.vxd
Device=c:FreetelFreetel2.vxd
Disable these lines by placing a semicolon (;) at the beginning of each line so that it becomes:
;Device=c:FreetelFreetel1.vxd
;Device=c:FreetelFreetel2.vxd
Close the ‘System Configuration Editor’ and click ‘Yes’ when/if you are asked to ‘Save Changes’. Shutdown and restart Windows and now you should not get that error anymore.
Sorry for the delay in responding to your question. I had not come across a question like this before and I wanted to research it throughly.