This message is from: barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Guess I'll throw in my $.02 on the Gateway. Used to be in the 'old' days of dos you could fiddle with the config and autoexec files, or use a boot disk or sometimes if you knew hex even rebuild corrupted fat tables on the hard drive system area. W95 and the like are different animals and don't allow much fiddling. I would be interested to know whether this problem came before or after your changes to the registry. Symantec was probably very helpful, but I wonder sometimes with pnp if some of these programs performing system operations (like Norton) seem to conflict with Windows device manager and cause problems. I have heard of and had a bad (reformatted) disk from a comm program for the same reason. Looks like you tried everything (backup, safe mode, etc.) and will probably have to reformat. Everybody is right about backups, but ponder this: if it takes several hours for a tape backup, and zip drives are expensive why not back up only your personal files then if (when) there's a problem, just reinstall Windows. Virtually everything on your system is from Microsoft and on the cd anyway. Good luck.
Barry Village Farm Fjords Nuevo, CA
