im still on ME coz i dont have the itme or money to upgrade to 2000 or XP. and anyways, ME is stable enough for me; ive only had 3 BSODs EVER. quite good for ME, no ?

@Jagged: dunno how to help if youre on XP. but you could try holding down CTRL as windows is loading (at the point when that little green progress bar is scrolling along under the Windows XP logo). if i remember right, it should bring up a list of ways to start up XP. see if you can do anything from there; there might be one that lets you configure your start-up. if there is, then you can tell it to start up without the registry, then you can try and perform maintenance on windows. hope that helps

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"I make the sacrifice" - me (during a rather unsuccessful trade run; don't ask no question, I won't tell no lie )

3 is incredible. I put in on my main pc once about 18mths ago, it lasted about 30 secs before coming up with erors and bsod'd after about 5mins. I don't know anyone, apart from Ed, and now you, who will give it house room. It's complete crap, BUT when it does work, which is rare, it does seem to work well. tbh it really isnt worth trying to get it to work if it doesnt want to, but if its fine and youre happy, if it aint broke dont fix it!

Bravo Wind.

WMe is unjustly abused by the uhber techies here imo. I have had ZERO BSD's on Wme. Well, except for the very last one which told me I had a disk write error and, well, ended up being a toasted controller on my mobo.

@Taw

*preens*

yeh thats it preen yourself over your smouldering heap of slag, ME boy. didn't do you any good in the long run did it? I was about to say to Wind in an edit IF you hadn't rushed in so triumphantly, that generally ME worked ok on branded systems, crap on OEMs and self-builds, don't ask me why, it's just an observation. ME was common a couple of years ago on laptops too, and generally performed well for those porpoises. However branded systems themselves are an issue, because when they go wrong they go wrong big, due to built in obsolescence, and then what goods a miraculously stable os if after 3yrs the hardware dies? can't think WHO that might apply to..

*sulks*

Interesting observation, we did o/s 's this year, but I cant remember we doin ME, I wonder why, or I just didnt study properly

i wouldn't worry about it, it was only a tarted up 98 anyway, it fixed a few things and made other a lot worse, basically a W2K skin on '98se. utter crap. didn't last very long, either, MS abandoned it pretty quickly.

good points - it has good networking, system restore, and finds drivers well, is well-optimised for multimedia, and looks nice.

bad points - everything else. its very unstable, fractious, has whole swathes of so-called functionality that are just shoddy add-ons to 98, and doesn't react well to updates or sware/hware changes. Doesnt sit well with utilities and isnt worth messing about with, as it just seems to get worse the more you try to fix it.

Taw in a way the point that I was trying to make wsa that it was maybe not important enough or too bad to be included if i am right and it is not in our book

How do I reinstall Windows?

You should have a boot disk, floppy, insert it in floppy drive and tghe win CD in the CD drive and restart the computer. It should take you to the screen(s) to choose a install.

Found the disc but can't find te floppy but I'll keep looking, should the floppy been included?

you sometimes have to create the floppy

Errrrr, what? Should a 12 year old be able to do that? Anyways I can't find the floppy drive on my comp.(it's that one from Dell for 500$) so any other suggestions?

you'll have to boot from the cd and reinstall Windoze then, that's rea;istically the only straightforward option open to you. XP? you can do a repair installation which will keep most of existing settings. but I think you'd be better having a word in your folks shell-like and getting it down to a repair shop, or calling the technical line if you have suppport.