Cancel installation pending work.

[U.S. Patriot]

Windows98se.
After trying to install a microsoft hotfix, which was not able to complete, now when I try to install anything I get a message stating:
"Another installation has work pending, please reboot to finish".
Although 10 reboots later I still get this message and cannot install anything or update certain programs. I have tried microsofts solution:

"Start a registry editor (i.e., regedit.exe).
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager registry subkey.
Double-click PendingFileRenameOperations.
Remove any entries for this registry value, then click OK".

I do not have a "PendingFileRenameOperations" under any of the registry key or subkeys. I have also ran a registry search for "PendingFileRenameOperations" with no results found. I also tried goback, safe mode, selective loading to work around this pending work with no luck.
I also do not have a Win98 CD.

Does anyone know of a way to cancel the pending work?

Thanks

[U.S. Patriot]

Although it tells you this can make you system unstable I found this to work for me.

Click start\find\files & folders
type wininit.ini (search)
right click on it and select rename
rename it to wininit.nin (notice the change from ini to nin)
click enter
close

Afterwards I was able to install without receiving a "another installation is pending work" message. This was caused by a update unable to complete installation.