Not having seen or manipulated your machine, I concur with Noel, if a SR
doesn't succeed.

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"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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From your description, it would seem that your young lad has managed to
delete some critical files from the Windows folder (shouldn't be possible,
but young minds...).

I suspect that your only option is likely to be to reinstall ME over
itself - and hope that doing so doesn't remove access to some of your
data.

See what sense you can make out of the following link - it doesn't
strictly
apply in your case, but should give you the guidelines you need to get
there
in the end.....
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm

post back with questions BEFORE doing anything irreversible to your PC!!


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"Brande" wrote in message
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I have been in to the question you mention, but is this restore tool
mentioned, the one that is on the computer for restoring, if it is then
this
wasn't working before this happened to the computer. There was some
problem
with the memory and there wasn't enough to run the restore tool. I was
trying to sort this out, but the young boy was over zealous and tried to
get
some memory by deleting a large file. So is there any other way of doing
this???

"Jack E Martinelli" wrote:

"Fortunately System Restore can often be run from a command prompt when
you
cannot start Win Me or even boot into Safe Mode.. What is involved is
booting to DOS using a floppy and editing C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI such
that
the
line shell=explorer.exe reads instead shell=progman.exe. After
removing
the
floppy see if you can boot the PC so that Program Manager is launched
after
which you may be able to run System Restore. For full details see MS
KB
279736 - "How to Start the System Restore Tool From a Command Prompt"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=279736).
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"Brande" wrote in message
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My neighbours son had a new game for Christmas, went to put it on and
the
computer said, not enough memory, so in his haste to get this game on
he
went
into winme folder and deleted a file. Now we can't get the computer
to
load
up past the password page. I have tried to load in safe mode, but
nothing.
I
have tried putting the retore disc in but it won't recognise it.
Any suggestions
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