re: cmos and error 29 Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 8:42 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by solojam (4 messages posted) hi and thank you for the help I am very happy that all the problems are fixed and what I really did by accident I was trying to check some registry keys I restored my registry and that little by little allowed me to to re download ie 6.0 again and there all the problems were fixed I am able to open panel control now and do restoring too I had to take out some ad ware virus keys from my registry I did it manually cos the scan program wasn't able to do it for some reason it feels good to have my computer back like brand new again I should be more careful what I download next time I had really bad virus I had to restore my registry several times and every time I was running few ad ware scan to clear all my system thanks again ed On Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 4:38 am, Ed wrote: >I don't like the sound of this! If Windows can't find the program regsvr32.exe then >you may have a much more serious problem than your original posting indicates. > >Try the other suggestions in my previous posting, to reset the CMOS and the BIOS, >and report the outcome here. > >Windows is quite badly damaged if the START > RUN function is malfunctioning. To >fix it, try booting to the DOS prompt (with a bootable Win ME floppy), and at the >C: prompt type this command: > >scanreg /restore > >It will enable you to load a backup version of the Windows registry. By default Windows >keeps 5 backup copies of the registry, one per day for the last 5 days, which you >can restore in place of a damaged registry if a fault occurs. > >This is now sounding like a serious fault. Backup all your data files onto another >disk immediately. > >Ed > > > Written in response to: re: cmos and error 29 (Ed: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 5:38 am) Responses to this message: re: cmos and error 29 (Ed: Monday, April 2, 2007 at 5:47 am) All messages in this thread [show all] cmos and error 29 (solojam: Sun, Mar 25, 2007, 1:06 am) re: cmos and error 29 (Ed: Sun, Mar 25, 2007, 9:05 am) re: cmos and error 29 (solojam: Sun, Mar 25, 2007, 5:52 pm) re: cmos and error 29 (Ed: Wed, Mar 28, 2007, 5:38 am) re: cmos and error 29 (solojam: Sat, Mar 31, 2007, 8:42 am) re: cmos and error 29 (Ed: Mon, Apr 2, 2007, 5:47 am) 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