You have just destroyed your system. The procedure outlined in that article
was written by someone who clearly gets pleasure by displaying their
ignorance. By installing into C:\WindowsC and then deleting C:\Windows you
have destroyed your system and few if any of your installed programs will run.
You might as well now wipe your hard disk clean and start all over.

What should have done is reinstall Win Me over itself rather than using the
convoluted procedure you chose to do.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Margie wrote:

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What do you mean by a reinstall of "Win Me system files"?
I FOLLLOWED A PROCEDURE I FOUND AT:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winme/t1066382239
I assume you mean
you reinstalled Win Me.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THIS REINSTALLS ONLY THE WINME
SYSTEM FILES

How did you do this? If a clean install or a
reinstall using a manufacturer's Recovery CD you will have to reinstall
your applications. You say you cannot open some programs although "they
are obviously on the C:\ drive". Why are they "obviously on your C:\
drive"?

I SEE THEM LISTED UNDER C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE
AND C:\MICROSOFT OFFICE

Have you checked that the programs are still there in your C:\Program
Files folder? Take Word for example, how are you trying to launch Word.
What exactly happens including all error messages you see?
--
THE MESSAGE SAYS:
"This application must be installed to run. Please run
Setup from the location where you originally installed the
application."