You asked earlier about reinstalling Win Me over itself. Since you
haven't felt the need to install any updates then you have nothing to lose
by doing this. Damage is done only if the user has updated their system
such as having installed IE6 or WMP9 and special procedures need to be
taken to remove these components before reinstalling the OS. The same
also applies to XP but the components involved differ somewhat.

Boot Win Me and then run setup.exe from the folder containing BASE2.CAB.

I am intrigued at your saying that your DOS program won't work in XP
whereas it does in Win Me since Win Me like XP doesn't strictly run DOS as
such but am guessing that it is closer than XP's cmd.exe

One solution you may wish to consider if running XP Pro rather than Home
is to use VPC (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../default.mspx),
now free, and to run Win Me or even DOS 6.22 or whatever in a virtual
machine on XP.
--
Mike Maltby



wrote:

Mike M wrote:
Mike, I hate to disagree with the person who knows the system, but
I'd rather have a system that works and will run my applications,
than have the modem working.

That's quite amazing and I can't help feel that I've probably been
wasting my time. Perhaps I ought to remind you that it was YOU that
started this thread reporting problems and asking how to resolve
them! I'm sorry that you have never used system restore (SR) and this
does
lead me to wonder why you upgraded to Win Me if you weren't
interested in one of its major features, another being the related
system file protection (SFP), with both SFP and SR being functions
of Win Me's state manager. No doubt you had your reasons and I
guess those were important to yourself but for a system that isn't
going to be updated or used to connect to the net you might as well
have stuck with Win 98. You asked in your very first post:

Please tell me how I can run Task Manager in ME so
that I can see what's happening in RAM.

and I responded that you couldn't. If you weren't really interested
in installing your modem why didn't you quit then? As to where you
go from here I think I should leave that to you to decide as I feel
that you will always do what you want regardless of what I have to
say. I know I would if I were in your position. vbg

Cheers and the best of luck,
Mike, you recall that I have been using XP for 3+ years and
the only reason I resuscitated an older OS was that I have
certain mathematical DOS programs which will not run on XP.
Heaven knows I tried enough work-arounds. The reason for
going to ME was that I like the appearance of ME, and it's newer
and presumably better. You pointed out ways that it's better
but those don't appeal to me.

My method of program security involves cloning my Master Drive
as often as I am so disposed. In eras gone by, I did backup
on 5" floppies, then on various kinds of mag tape, but now I
like cloned hard drives.

I gather that I haven't been able to procure the data to help
you to unlock the mystery of my error message. You've led me
to new and interesting places, where other men but not this one
had gone before. and that's always nice, but my basic problem
still is that I need to get rid of the error message. If you'd
rather not proceed further on that task, I'll thank you for
your efforts, and prompt follow-up, and start back at a clone
(full restore point) that works, and proceed one step at a
time......carefully. I do appreciate your help.