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re: help me get straightened out! Friday, May 4, 2007 at 10:13 am Posted by elmoticky (25 messages posted) First of all, you do not say when your problem started. If it started just recently, say three or four days ago, I would first go with a system restore. Set your back date to the day when everything was working O.K. I would think other readers would like to know just when this problem started. good luck. Elmoticky On Friday, May 4, 2007 at 8:14 am, melch4 wrote: >I don't know what has happened, but when I start my computer before it opens windows >it goes to the black screen where it asks you if you want to open in norma,safe mode >,and two others, I always choose normal, but it does it everytime now when I turn >on computer. Also, after opening windows, my local disk folder opens. And I have >noticed if my computer does not shut down correctly when I turn it back on, it does >not do the scan disk. Any help would be appreciated....Thank you in advance...... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: help me get straightened out! Friday, May 4, 2007 at 10:15 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (32675 messages posted) Check MSCONFIG settings to see if you have the boot menu option selected. I think that's an option in ME, but I may be wrong. Windows Explorer Starts When You Start Your Computer http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q228502 Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: help me get straightened out! Friday, May 4, 2007 at 10:28 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (32675 messages posted) This may not be a real problem, just a setting somewhere. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: help me get straightened out! Friday, May 4, 2007 at 8:04 pm Posted by Ed (603 messages posted) You have three seperate problems here! First, you have accidentally turned on the startup menu. This setting is controlled by the file MSDOS.SYS which is a hidden and system file located at C:\MSDOS.SYS To edit it easily, prepare a .BAT batch file containing the following lines - C: CD \WINDOWS\COMMAND ATTRIB -R -H -S C:\MSDOS.SYS EDIT C:\MSDOS.SYS ATTRIB +R +H +S C:\MSDOS.SYS I recommend the following setting in the [options] section - BootMenu=0 Second, I don't recognise the local disk folder problem, so can't help with that. Third, the ScanDisk problem. Open the System Configuration Utility, by going to: START > RUN then typing MSCONFIG and clicking on "OK". Go to the "General" tab, click on "Advanced", and unclick the box marked "Disable Scandisk after bad shutdown". Ed On Friday, May 4, 2007 at 8:14 am, melch4 wrote: >I don't know what has happened, but when I start my computer before it opens windows >it goes to the black screen where it asks you if you want to open in norma,safe mode >,and two others, I always choose normal, but it does it everytime now when I turn >on computer. Also, after opening windows, my local disk folder opens. And I have >noticed if my computer does not shut down correctly when I turn it back on, it does >not do the scan disk. Any help would be appreciated....Thank you in advance...... [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