I would most strongly concur with you Mike, overinstalling WinMe on itself
after undertaking (most of, if not) all of the WinMe Updates is a disaster
waiting to happen - BTDT. Or "Version Soup" - as Noel Paton so eloquently
described it.

But in the case of this particular thread, as you rightly pointed out
earlier "Note that removing all entries in Dev.Man is standard procedure
whenever a system disk is moved to new hardware regardless of the operating
system in use. In this respect Win Me is no different from either Win 98,
W2K or XP."

And - It looks like we've reverted to the intermittent phantom "1 message
not downloaded" phenomenon on this News Group which I've not seen for some
time g Was it this same NG we saw it happening last time?

Mart


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Ron,

Reinstalling Win Me over itself is a somewhat dangerous route to take if
either Internet Explorer 6 or Windows Media Player 9 have been installed.
In both cases it is essential to first take action so as to prevent major
subsequent player/browser problems.

Incidentally the user is talking here of Windows Millennium and not of
either Vista or XP.
--
Mike Maltby




Ron Martell wrote:

If you have an installation CD for the Windows Me then the best way to
resolve these issues is to boot with that CD and do a "Repair Install"
of Windows Me.

These instructions are for Windows XP but the procedure for Vista is
pretty well the same.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.html

Good luck