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Help me Taw...or anyone...

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Aceaz

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:26 pm

Help me Taw...or anyone...

Sorry to bug you guys, but I need some assistance. When I start up windows, it goes to the black screen, and says 'Windows is now updating setup files. This may take a few minutes'.
The hard drive hums for a bit, and then a new message comes up.

Windows cannot upgrade file %1 from %2
%1 : %2

It then repeats this message for about 10 mins, before stating that it cannot upgrade this file, and tellls me to press any key to continue. Windows is running fine, so I've got no idea what the smeg is going on.

Specs:
Operating System: Windows ME
CPU: 1003MHZ
Total memory: 516MB
Vidoe Card: NVIDIA Geforce4 MX 420
Soundcard: Soundmax Integrated Digital

Please help me out....anyone...



Aceaz---Like a U-boat, unnoticed, surfacing only for a second, then vanishing without a trace....

Stinger

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:41 pm

Answers:

Here
Here
and Here

Read, don't miss any steps and you'll be fine.

Esquilax

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:48 pm

Have you been playing around with service packs? It sounds a bit like a registry/win.ini problem. Let us know how it turns out.

Fear Factor

Post Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:07 am

Go Sting! reclaim the tech help kingdom from Taw!

Tawakalna

Post Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:14 am

..he's welcome to it..

actually I've come across this problem before with 98se too, although it's a couple of years ago. i either copied the winit file onto the problem pc from another pc using a bootdisk, or I renamed it. I don't remember.

Why are you using ME? it's rubbish, the WORST o/s MS have ever made. What were you doing originally before it went fonk? Have you tried using sytem restore to take the o/s back to it's previous state (long shot on ME ) because you will no doubt have sys restore set to max, thus backing up almost a gig of data so there should be plenty of restore points to work from.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 2/6/2004 1:37:04 AM

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