Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated!
jeeeez, and I got out of the shower for this
the WININET.DLL file, on my win98 computer is in the (c:\windows\system) folder. If C drive, if not, D: etc. Try placing it there and rebooting. If that works, great. But I don't believe that wil work. One question, which version of internet explorer is running on your father's computer? You probably damaged the temp folders for IE, or the critical update and the temp file deletion was done in the wrong order.
Check this out:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;160158
here is a link to d/l the file http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?wininet
I am holding it for ransom. The ransom is a can of pringles and a diet coke.
BTTT