Your advice worked like a charm. You're the man!!!!!!!!

Now, for the second part of my original question. In the Add/Remove
Programs Properties Box, the Desktop Themes component shows 0.0. mb and with
my bad ME disk, I cannot download this component. Suggestions???


"Mike M" wrote:

You can create a boot floppy (EBD) or start up disk as follows:
Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Startup Disk and follow the prompts.

If you get asked for the location of a "missing" file point the wizard
towards the Win Me cab files which should be in either the
windows\options\cabs or windows\options\install folder. Alternatively
point to the Win9x folder on the Win Me CD. Specifically look for the
file BASE2.CAB and then point the wizard at the folder containing
base2.cab..

If you are unable to create a boot floppy you can download the image of a
Win Me OEM boot disk from www.bootdisk.com. Download to your desktop,
double click to run and follow the prompts to transfer the image to a
floppy. Do NOT copy the downloaded file to a floppy - that won't make a
bootable floppy but instead a floppy disk containing the file you
downloaded.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows



debba wrote:

A few days ago, I was having trouble with my computer. After a day of
frustration, I had a computer tech to work on it. After an hour or
so, he reformatted my hard drive. During re-installation of ME, he
discovered my back-up ME CD was bad. After a few more hours, when we
believed we were to to the point of just re-installing my programs,
he left. Since then, I've discovered some problems but I can't get
the tech to respond. So I'm left on my own.

Currently, I'm trying to create a start-up disk but so far, I cannot.
The message says it cannot find Autoexec.ebd My ME back-up disk
doesn't work. Is there anywhere I can get a copy of this file??

Also, Desktop is empty. Where can I get a copy of those files?