"Robert Robinson" wrote in message
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I just tried also to boot with ME diskette/minimal and ran scanreg /fix
to be
sure there were no registry problems that might be related to lost keys.
Still
no fix.
Anyone got solutions that haven't been mentioned so far? I'm pretty
desperate to get this going without wiping the drive and starting over.

Robert


Finally, I did it: reformatted with a fresh copy of Windows ME and all is
terrific. In fact it's better than factory-fresh because my current
installation doesn't have all the commercial-ware that new PCs come with.
In any case, the problem is fixed, though the solution was never found.
Thanks all.

EW