Yes right, system.ini: i keep typing that item shorthand by mistake.

I checked someone else's computer msconfig and saw the system.ini with
[386Enh]
Mine shows [default],[boot],[drivers],[drivers], [TTFontDimenCache]

"Mike M" wrote:

[386Enh] is usually the fourth section down in the file system.ini (for
perhaps the tenth time of posting there is no sys.ini file in Win Me g).
T the sections before it being usually [boot], [keyboard] and
[boot.description]. Without a [386Enh] section I would expect you to have
some difficulty in booting your system since this section of system.ini is
used to load some essential device drivers including that for your mouse..
--
Mike Maltby



luvbuffalo wrote:

Cheers indeed! 3 days sun & 80F degrees kept me outside instead of at
the PC.

For fixing the video I deleted the entries in the Device Manager in
Safe Mode and then let Win Me redetect the hardware

I did the system restore check you suggested below and it worked like
a charm--no errors at all when i restored the shortcut. I also just
checked back to Sept 30th and those restore point still exist too.

Mouse - When I run msconfig & check the tab for sys.ini, I don't have
any entries referencing the mouse.drv and no section that refers to
[386Enh]. ??

System Restore.
May I strongly suggest you try the following very quick check.
a) Create a shortcut on your desktop to a file.
b) Create a manual checkpoint
c) Delete the shortcut
d) Restore you PC to the checkpoint you created.
Was the shortcut restored? Did you see any error messages?


Mouse.
The file, as I think you know, is system.ini.
What entries are there referring to your mouse and in which sections?
Normally I would expect to see entries referring to mouse.drv in both
the [boot.description] section (not that I think this section is very
important) and more importantly the section [386Enh].
"Mike M" wrote:

Well done! Your post really is good news. Thanks for sticking with
me, I'm just sorry that I didn't get you up and running sooner

I'm back in action with Win Me in normal mode & fixed the video
graphics as you instructed below. whew!

Which method please? By deleting the entries in the Device Manager
in Safe Mode and then letting Win Me redetect your hardware or by
downloading and installing new drivers? Enquiring minds and all
that. :-)

System Restore.
May I strongly suggest you try the following very quick check.
a) Create a shortcut on your desktop to a file.
b) Create a manual checkpoint
c) Delete the shortcut
d) Restore you PC to the checkpoint you created.
Was the shortcut restored? Did you see any error messages?

Mouse.
The file, as I think you know, is system.ini.
What entries are there referring to your mouse and in which sections?
Normally I would expect to see entries referring to mouse.drv in
both the [boot.description] section (not that I think this section
is very important) and more importantly the section [386Enh].

Stick with it as I think we are nearly there. Note though that it
is just gone 2 a.m. here in London, UK so may well be going to bed
soon so if you post back I probably won't reply for 10-12 hours.

Cheers,
--
Mike Maltby



luvbuffalo wrote:

MM, you rock!

I'm back in action with Win Me in normal mode & fixed the video
graphics as you instructed below. whew!

Now, for my Microsoft Intellimouse, I checked the sys.ini section in
the boot folder and there is no reference there at all for the
mouse.drv=Microsoft
The only items listed are 2 unchecked boxes for *Displayfallback=0

I'm afraid to do anything more with system restore. However i just
created a manual restore point for today.

YAY!