Yeah, that's true about ME. It took more tweaking than any other OS to get it to "act" like a windows OS! Not very stable either.
Jeff said the PC would not boot, so I'm assuming he tried safe mode. ? Jeff you can hold the F5 or F8 key down while booting just like in '98, then you'll know what to do from there (restore the registry, scandisk, or go into safe mode if you haven't). Now that I think about it, I THINK, *think* I had to do yet another tweak to ME to get it to use the F5 & F8 keys while booting. Can't recall now. So, if those keys don't work, let me know because if they don't I have the info stored on how to get them to do that. Hopefully (if you haven't tried safe mode) you will be able to get to it, then you can go to the sysbckup folder in the Windows folder and look at the registry .cab files, and pick the correct date, remember the name of the cab file then restore that one from DOS. Reason being, is the cab files are NOT named correctly in order! For example; looking at mine right now, you can have rb000, rb001, rb003, rb004, etc., and the OLDEST is rb001, with the second oldest being rb005! I don't think in the DOS registry restore you are given a date for each cab file. -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jeff, ME does have restore capabilities like XP. In fact, the feature in XP is a carryover from ME. I had the opportunity to have lunch with a MS trainer a while back during a TS2 seminar and he was telling me that what they tried to do with XP was to take Win 2000 (XP is built on the Win 2K kernel) and add the best features from all the other OS's out there. The only redeeming feature ME had was the system restore point. He also told me that ME was the worst OS Microsoft had put out to date :) Now don't everybody start sending me hate mail over this remark. I'm just relaying what he (A Microsoft Trainer!) had to say about it, not passing judgment on the validity of the statement.(even though I agree for the most part after a couple of years having to support it for clients o) ) As for scanning with Norton AV, yes you can do this provided you boot from a Norton AV boot disk as McAfee will interfere if you try to do it from Windows. However, I would try to boot into safe mode first and if that works, either you have a faulty driver or resource conflict, or a program loading at startup is hanging. If you can't boot to safe mode, try booting to a floppy. If this won't work, then it sounds real bad :( An easy way to find if an app is hanging on you is go to the start button and click run and type MSCONFIG and go to the last tab which will be startup and uncheck anything that doesn't appear necessary or have a windows or windows/system path statement. Then it's a matter of elimination finding the problem. (The beauty of this utility is if you stop a required program from loading, all you have to do to fix it is go back to the startup tab and re-check the corresponding block.) If it's not a hanging app then try disabling (from safe mode again) hardware one by one starting with the least necessary pieces first like the sound card, modem, network card, and so on. If you need any further help on this one, feel free to contact me off list. Best of luck to you. Stephen Todd Blue Angel Consulting ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Dougherty" > Hello, > I have a friend running WIN ME, AOL 6.0 and McAfee vir*s scan. > McAfee has not been updated for at least three months. > She can not boot into windows. The computer locks up at the ME splash screen, I > guess it is. > I'm not at all familiar with ME, but would like to help her. > I've instructed her to try booting from McAfee disk to see if it will scan for > vir*Ses. > Does ME have any type of restore (Like XP) or reg restore (like 98)? > If this sounds like a v*rus, I can take my Norton disk and try scanning with that > when I go over. > Thank you. >> FAX 717-564-4952 > Jeff Dougherty ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
