re: problem after update download-Presario 2200 Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 5:16 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by digidds (2 messages posted) Thank you for your reply... my dilema now is I cannot proceed further without a functioning display; is there any option to performing these tasks "blind" eg..only utilizing the keyboard... On Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 7:20 pm, Carol J wrote: > >--"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. > > > > >color="006699">Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites Written in response to: re: problem after update download-Presario 2200 (Ms. Eagle: Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 7:20 pm) Responses to this message: re: problem after update download-Presario 2200 (Ms. Eagle: Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 7:07 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] problem after update download-Presario 2200 (digidds: Fri, Jan 12, 2007, 9:01 am) re: problem after update download-Presario 2200 (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Jan 13, 2007, 7:20 pm) re: problem after update download-Presario 2200 (digidds: Sun, Jan 14, 2007, 5:16 am) re: problem after update download-Presario 2200 (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Jan 14, 2007, 7:07 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum