You're welcome.

Hope it all works out as you want.

Good luck!

Cheers,

Zee



"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message
...
I have pasted this and "oops!"'s reply into a text file and named it
SUWIN-FIX.txt. You guys are the greatest. I searched the MS Knowledge
Base and could only find a zillion "SUxxxx" errors, none of which
applied.
In the meantime, in desperation, I was able to extract msvcrt.dll and
winspool.drv from the CD. Those were the culprits that were keeping
Windows from booting in the first place. I am surprised that I was able
to get Windows to boot again, after the two attempted reinstalls.
I had this computer before (about 9 months ago) and had done all the
windows updates on it, so that explains what you have told me. IE 6.0
and Media Player 9.
This has been quite a challenge... before I could even attempt the
reinstall I had to delete a lot of temporary files and other known
garbage, and the swap file... just to have enough disk space for the
reinstall. Now that I have been able to get it booted, I found half a gig
of mp3's which I copied to one of my own computers and deleted. I'll burn
them on a CD for them. Meanwhile, I'm finding and removing gobs of
malware. The customer had just done a full virus scan on it before it
crashed and said it found none. But I'll check that too... :-) When I get
it clean, I am still going to do the reinstall, following your
guidelines. It is still dragging something horrible and allI have running
is the system tray. I imagine I will be able to do at least part of the
renaming and deleting from within Windows now, since I've got it running.
I've still got a ways to go before I attempt the reinstall so I'll keep
checking back here to see if you have any further advice.
I DID mirror the drive onto another hard drive before I started all
this, so I have something to fall back on if all this doesn't work.
However, with your guys' advice, I have a feeling that all will go well!
Thanks to both of you!

"Mike M" wrote in
:

SUWIN (VERX.DLL) error:
You appear to be attempting to reinstall Win Me over a system where a
beta or early version of Windows Media Player 9 had previously been
installed without having first removed it - not easy I know. Boot to
DOS using a floppy and delete or rename the file WMPLOC.DLL in the
windows\system folder and then try reinstalling Win Me. This should
work and now allow you to reinstall Win Me although you may later have
some problems with WMP.

It is also possible that you had installed IE6 and this also needs to
be uninstalled before (re-)installing Win Me. If this is the case you
might want to have a look at MS KB 312451 - "How to Remove Internet
Explorer 6 by Reinstalling Windows"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=312451) and also KB 293907 - "How
to Uninstall Internet Explorer 6"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293907).

If it is now too late to remove IE6 and after completing your
re-install you have problems due to the resulting version soup between
the version of IE5.5 included in the Win Me setup and IE6 please post
back and someone will try and give some guidance as to how best to
proceed.



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