re: Windows ME will not boot. Only starts in Safe mode
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 2:18 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by marc
(9 messages posted)
Iain where do I start... The system restore is disabled. In my startup guide I had
none of the files you were asking me to disable. I ran the ME startup disk and had
it start with no CD-ROM support. At the a prompt I typed in the command as noted.
I got a message I would loose all files I think it was y or n. I hit yes and nothing
really happened. I tried a ctrl alt delete but it did not restart so I shut down
manually and removed the boot disk. It still started in safe mode and I could not
find the hidden files you asked me for. I did look for the _restore with a search
and found 11 files with that string in a longer command. I guess I failed.
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 8:00 am, Iain wrote:
>Start in safe mode. Disable system restore as follows DisableSystemRestore
>
>Go to start run type: msconfig and press enter. In the start-up guide disable PCHealth,
>SSDPSRV, and all references to system restore, press Clean and apply and re-start.
>Open msconfig again to see if they have all been cleared.
>
>Start-Up on bootdisk, get to the DOS prompt and type: A:\>DEL C:\_RESTORE and re-boot.
>
>Make sure that the hideen files are un-hidden (Explorer, tools, folder options,
files,
>etc.) find the _RESTORE file and change the attributes to hidden, read-only and
archive
>so it remains at zereo bytes.
>
>The ****** will probably re-appear at some stage as this is in the nature of BG
at
>MS , (stubborn!)
>
>Un-Install PCHealth, delete the PCHealth sceduled task and run this line in the
run
>window to also remove Windows Help, msinfo32.exe and other useless junk:
>
>rundll.exe setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection Uninstall 132 C:\WINDOWS\INF\PCHealth.inf
>
>(Bonus! No more Help window in ... Safe Mode!) (Got to be a winner!)
>
>Disable fast-find and delete, from DOS prompt type: A:\>format C: and install '98se.
>(You lose everything and gain at the same time!) (Just KIDDING!) (Not really!)
>
>Otherwise: RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS ME
>
>PerformanceImprovement
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>AlwaysUnloadDll 9x/ME
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>NTFS/FAT
>
>
Iain
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