MC54s wrote :-
i have a damaged win.ini file

How recently? Within the last 5 days?

If you are reluctant to run System Restore, remove the new printer and
replace the old, then boot with your WinMe Startup (floppy) Disk and choose
4) Minimal Boot.

At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space
between the g and /) then press Enter.

Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the LAST 'good' date BEFORE
THE PROBLEM, continuing with the instructions.

Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to
reboot.

As well as the registry, this will restore a previous good win.ini file

Mart


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without losing all of my other programs/software?
i have a damaged win.ini file (on boot up Windows tells me to reinstall
Win98SE) and my Canon BJC-2100 printer will not work-error-"cannot
communicate with lpt1 port".

I really do not want to have to lose everything and do a "system
restore" as I have tax returns to finish before April 15th! All my data
is on this computer and I have no way to save or transfer it to other
media.

All problems started when I installed a USB Epson Stylus RX600 and the
Canon BJC 2100 is a parallel port printer. Is there anyway to connect
the Canon via the serial port or ??? I do not have the USB cable that
came with the Canon.

Also-how do I remove all of the ports/etc.-from device manager or ???

There are listings in the printer properties dropdown that shows 6
different ports and I do not know what they are for.

Thank you in advance!