Noel,

Have sent you an e-mail.
--
Mike


Noel Paton wrote:

Hmmmm - maybe I was a little sharp there.......

The registry has very little power over the existing filesystem AFAIK
- so files that are marked as the most highly protected in Win ME
(the SR archive) cannot just be removed at will with a few sneaky
Windows tricks - AFAIK, the ONLY way to delete the archive is to boot
to DOS and do it from there.

You could, if you have a big enough RAM stick, and your PC supports
booting from USB, boot from Bart PE and use that to delete the files
- but that presupposes that you have a recent XP and Bart PE
available to use for the work.

...or you could use a Linux (ptui!) - with the same provisos as
for Bart.

Does your PC support booting from USB? - AFAICT, it doesn't. - RTFM
for that.