--"I ran a series of downloads about a week ago after running a search on windows 
and >evaluating those they suggested and followed through."

Are you referring to Windows ME updates? There are no longer updates put out for 
ME and won't be new updates put out. Try restoring a registry backup. 

You'll need a ME startup diskette (boot disk). If you don't have one, you can create 
one on another PC. 

If you don't have access to another ME machine, a 98 startup disk will work, or download 
a ME boot disk image and create one on another system: Bootdisk.com 

To create a disk: Get a blank floppy diskette, go into Add/Remove programs. Click 
Startup Disk tab, then stick the floppy disk in drive and choose Create disk. Then 
boot with the startup disk in the floppy drive. 

At the A:\> prompt, type: C: scanreg /restore then press Enter. Choose a backup 
with the word Started, dated before this happened. Follow the prompts to restore 
the backup.

You should get a message that Windows successfully restored the registry. Then CTRL_ALT_DEL 
to get back into Windows. It's worth a try.



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