Ok, I recently screwed my stupid computer up.. It was completely my fault though. 
I was trying to be a wise guy and delete all "un-wanted" files from my C:/ drive, 
such as, in the WINDOWS folder I deleted A LOT of stuff that was needed. And I deleted 
some various programs that I dont think have anything to do with my general problem... 
I was assuming that I could use my windowsME reinstall disk when I tryed this, but 
later found out that will not work. 

Ok, here is my problem:
1.) the first time I restarted my computer after deleting all of those files my resolution 
was huge and running on a very low color setting. I fixed this with putting in my 
reinstall the drivers disk.. That fixed that problem.
2.) I do not have a mouse AT all and I am having to navigate with my keyboard. Very 
annoying.
3.) Everytime I try using the reinstall windowsME disk it shows an error after a 
little while.
4.) I cannot enter ANYTHING in the Control Panel > Settings folder.. It will just 
say "File missing rundll32.exe" or something like that.
5.) I cannot get online because it will just show up errors.

That is about it... I know that I can reformat but I do not have a "bootup disk" 
nor do I know where I can get one. Any help would be appreciated!! THANK YOU!!

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re: Windows ME major problem Friday, June 13, 2003 at 1:51 am Posted by Jallal (5 messages posted) Another thing I forgot to post is when I first boot-up windows it goes from that loading screen with the WinME logo strait to a error: "WININIT.exe is missing/unavailable"... and from the logo screen to this error is like a 2 second time span... thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows ME major problem Friday, June 13, 2003 at 1:56 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) Well you should have a Windows bootdiskette START-DISK You CAN make one on any other Windows ME Computer. If you are fortunate enough to have the Cabinet files ON your Hard Disk-Drive then you could do an over-install of your operating system. With the Start-Disk [Botdiskette] in the A: drive, start your computer, and at the choice screen, choose "Minimum boot" and press enter. When the A:\> prompt loads type: A:\> C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS\INSTALL.EXE [Or SETUP.EXE] and press enter. The re-install should proceed from there. RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS ME YOU MUST HAVE your Windows ME ProductKey code to complete the install. Provided that the file: C:\WINDOWS\system.dat , is still on your C: drive , you can find it from the DOS prompt too. Type: A:\>EDIT C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT Using your keyboard, press Alt then right arrow to move over to Edit. Down arrow to get to Search and press enter. Type: ProductKey , in the search window and press enter. The Number which you are looking for should appear immediately after the word ProductKey. I.E. ProductKey ABCD1-BCDE2-CDEF3-DEFG4-EFGH5 , for example. [That is a ficticious number, btw.] Make an absolutely ACCURATE record of it. If the install hangs run: A:\>scandisk /all , and yoou should do this FIRST before attempting the overinstall. If you are lucky it might work for you. Have you tried getting nto safe mode by tapping the F8 key during stsrt-up? With all of those files missing I doubt if you can, but it might be worth a try. Otherwise: RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS ME  MS KB Q255867 Good luck! Mac TUNING '98/ME FDISK FORMAT '98/ME INSTALLING IE6.0 SP1  RESPONSE [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows ME major problem Friday, June 13, 2003 at 3:13 am Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) Major problem and it could be almost impossible to recover from without formatting and installing everything again, if you deleted some of the critical information files Windows ME builds and uses. First, you really need a boot diskette. You can make one from Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - Start disk tab. You can make one on someone Else's system if necessary. Second, you need to try to boot into Safe Mode if you can. (hold Ctrl key while booting before the splash screen). I assume you can boot some way (diskette to DOS, or Safe Mode) because you indicated you installed video drivers to fix the video screen size problem. Boot system and locate your System *.CAB files. They are in the C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\INSTALL (or \CABS) folder. If they are still there (there are 25 of them), they contain compressed copies of all Windows ME files necessary to replace/rebuild Windows ME. There should also be a copy of SETUP.exe in the folder. Run it. This is the Windows ME install SETUP program. It will allow you to run an install of Windows, just like from the CD, just faster. You will need to know your ProductKey number. It should be on your install CD package, or you can locate it in your Registry by searching for "ProductKey". This should rebuild Windows ME. You will have to go to the Windows UpDate site to update all the fixes and security updates again. Note: the problem installing with your CD is most likely a dirty or damaged CD or a drive that is having read errors. The "CD file system" software that loads as part of the SETUP/install program does not have much "error recovery" code in it and almost any soft read error causes the install process to crash. If your system CAB files are gone, you can create a temporary install folder on the disk and copy all of the files in the Win9x folder on the CD into the temporary folder on the disk drive. Then run the SETUP from this temporary folder (so you don't get CD read errors). [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Performance Improvement Friday, June 13, 2003 at 3:18 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) Optimising Performance ME / '98 Fdisk & Format, Re-Install. 15/06/2003 If you have a large hard disk-drive (e.g. this is a 60Gb drive) then partitioning the disk has a number of advantages. 1.0GHz 256Mb SDRAM This is an OEM installed computer and the OEM will tell you that their recovery program will not only remove all data but will also remove any set partitions. NOT entirely true, as data WILL be removed on the C: drive but not on other drives, D: , etc. and set partitions! To partition the disk successfully you need to use a Windows Start-Up diskette (bootdisk) or your OEM's "recovery" floppy DISKETTE with both Fdisk and Format on the diskette. Take all of your data off the machine, files, favourites, email, address books, music, images and data and burn them all onto CD-RW backups. Start the computer up on the bootdisk and get to the A:\> prompt by choosing "minimum boot" here type: A:\>format C: , and press enter to clear the old disk configuration of all data. When complete type: A:\>fdisk and press enter to get to the fdisk partitioning program where you will see a choice of things to do. Choose to delete primary drive C: which is set to use 100% of the available disk space. Ignore the warning about losing data and hit enter. Now press escape to return you to the first menu. Here you choose to set the ... PRIMARY ... DOS drive and press enter. Fdisk will now check the entire drive space and then ask you to allocate the required size in Megabytes. I chose 10.0Gb for drive C: to run ME, Office 2000, ECDC, RealOnePlayer, NAV/NIS, a Power DVD and about 50 other software applications. With the 10.0Gb primary drive C: allocated, you can now press Esc to return to the first menu where you should choose (2) to set drive C: as the active drive "A" . If not sure if the program set drive C: as the active drive, chose (4) to see the size of the set drive and if it is set active "A" then press Esc to return to the main menu. (Add your volume label when prompted to do so and make a note of it somewhere safe. I used IXTREME1 which is the P-B model name.) Now choose (3) to set an ... EXTENDED ... DOS partition as drive D: . Fdisk will again check the disk and then ask you to set the size. In this case there is 50Gb of disk space, so just press enter. I used the volume label IXTREME2 for the D: drive. You have now divided your disk in two, C: = 10.0Gb & D: = 50.0Gb [Or 6.0 / 54.0Gb] The next stage is to FORMAT so you need to press Esc to get to the DOS prompt and from the A:\> prompt type: A:\>format C: and press enter. When finished and the file allocation table is set you need to format drive D:\ so type: A:\>format D: and press enter. When both partitions (drives) are formatted you can re-install on drive C:\. If you have a recovery diskette you CAN use it and with the Packard-Bell OEM system choose a minimum install with ME and "Smart Restore" only before adding updated Anti-Virus and software. Run scandisk and defrag after installing. With everything installed and running smoothly you can now keep all of your documents, music, images and videos on the D:\ drive but before you do consider setting your swap-file as a permanent swap-file ( I use a 1000Mb swap-file) by setting the virtual memory in "system", in the control panel, to the same settings for Max and Min size choosing to stop Windows from managing it and ALSO choosing the D:\ drive to set the swap-file to. You can then use a program (such as VoptXP from www.goldenbow.com) to set the permanent swap-file to the front of the D:\ drive so that all other data can be stored AFTER it and so that it can all be defragmented more easily. Now that your C:\ drive is clear of documents, music, images and video it will run better and faster and if you ever need to do a further re-install of your operating system you will only have to back-up your email. Paths to documents in Word, etc. will need to be changed and programs such as Windows Media Player or RealOnePlayer will scan all drives for media, picking up all of YOUR material from the D:\ drive. Again paths for saving material to the D:\ drive will need to be changed. I can now run with 99% free system resources at start-up and by using the AlwaysUnloadDll registry setting (a default setting with '98se) the entire system runs much better. (So far that is!) AlwaysUnloadDll 9x/ME IML. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NOTE: Find-Fast and the Active desktop are big users of resources. Fast-Find can cause stalling for several seconds. You can disable fast find in the control panel using exit and stop after deleting all of the indexes. Using Windows Classic folders view in Explorer saves on system resources too. Tools, Folder Options, view. Disable Taskmonitor in msconfig, delete the [hidden] APPLOG folder and remove the "optimise" check mark in MS Defrag.exe Use this MUCH better defrag program instead DISKEEPER LITE DEFRAG for 98/ME DIRECT DOWNLOAD ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ONLY if YOU want to: Uninstall PCHealth, System Restore, Windows Help, msinfo32.exe, etc. Start, Run & type: rundll.exe setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection Uninstall 132 C:\WINDOWS\INF\PCHealth.inf NB: You will have to re-install Windows if you want to use any of these features again. It is much easier to disable System Restore in the System, performance, file system, troubleshooting tab, and uncheck *Statemgr & PCHealth in Start, Run type: msconfig , enter, start-up tab, and then re-boot your system. This allows you to turn it on again if you have the need to use it. Open C:\WINDOWS\SCANREG.INI with Notepad and increase the MaxBackupCopies= value from 5 to the desired number. e.g. =14. (Two weeks.) You now have more possibilities when using scanreg /restore instead of system restore which you cannow disable in the system troubleshooting screen. You can also uncheck items in msconfig relating to system restore and delete the _RESTORE file in ME using your Windows Bootdisk: A:\>DELTREE C:\_RESTORE. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Up-Date site for ALL system-critical and security up-dates: Windows Update How to Troubleshoot Windows Internal Stack Overflow Error Messages (Q145799) Error Message: There Are No Spare Stack Pages (Q149083) ESSENTIAL: RAM memory assistance: RAMpage 1.6 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SPYBOT-SD  VIEW  DOWNLOAD  Automatic Deletion of TIF, TEMP & index.dat files. DELINDEX And for all other temp files: EMPTEMP 2.0  SPIDER ERASER  KAZAABEGONE REGISTRY CLEANER REG-CLEANER 4.3 ESSENTIAL DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM CODESTUFF STARTER  HIGHJACKTHIS.ZIP SpywareBlaster AdAware 6.0 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ To remove IE5.5 cleanly before installing IE6.0 IEradicator Download the IE6.0 SP 1 Installer from the MAIN WINDOWS DOWNLOAD site MS DOWNLOADS Or the full program as mentioned in the link below. Then use IEradicator to remove IE completely from your system and re-install after running scandisk & and defrag. Then fully update your system at the Windows Up-Date site for ALL system-critical and security up-dates: Windows Update SEE: INSTALLING IE6.0 SP1  RESPONSE ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MICRON RAM at CRUCIAL OR PRICEWATCH RAM testing: DocMemory 2.0 & MemTest 86 Swapfile Optimization ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BASIC MAINTENANCE Windows bootdiskette START-DISK And ALL DOS COMMANDS QuickCleanUpBootDisk Manual deletion of: TEMP folders, Temporary Internet Files, (_RESTORE & Datacoll, ME) from DOS prompt. A:\>DELTREE C:\WINDOWS\TEMP , [ENTER] will delete the TEMP folder and sub-folders. A:\>DELTREE C:\WINDOWS\Tempor~1 , [ENTER] will delete the Temporary Internet Files. A:\>DELTREE C:\_RESTORE , [ENTER] will delete the _RESTORE folder AND sub-folders. A:\>DEL C:\WINDOWS\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\DATACOLL\*.* , will delete the useless DATACOLL files whilst you are doing this. Use this MUCH better defrag program: DISKEEPER LITE DIRECT DOWNLOAD ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS ME  MS KB Q255867 RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS '98  MS KB Q255867 CLEAN INSTALL XP XP-READY? PC Pitstop NTFS/FAT TABLE  NTFS/FAT INFO [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum