Is it possible to do this?

First let me apologize for my lack of technical
expertise/terminology. A few months ago I had to reformat
my hard drive and reinstall programs. Doing this set me
back to the year 2000 and I had to update lots of drivers
plus reinstall the many, many Windows Updates including
getting back to IE6. I fear there may be another hard
drive reformat looming and I'd like to know if there's a
way in WinME to backup the current drivers, Windows
Updates, etc. and then reload them. If so, how do I go
about it? I have a CD burner so maybe I could save them
on a CD?? Thanks in advance for any help!
Vickie

What makes you think another reformat is looming, perhaps if you post back
here with your problems this can be avoided as it is usually a last ditch
attempt to try.
Below are a couple of links to look at if you go that way.
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/clean.htm

I don't have the link to hand but you can order a CD from Microsoft that
includes all updates to October03 then there wouldn't be so many to get.
Below is a link to look at so you can get updates to burn to CD. courtesy
of MikeM.
Joan

The easiest way to save updates is to use the Windows Update Catalogue.
This
can be done from any PC which need not be running Win Me. Select Windows
Millennium as the operating system and download and save the required
updates.

To access the Windows Update Catalogue you will need to visit the
WindowsUpdate (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/) site and choose in the
left hand pane to "Personalize Windows Update" and then check the box in
the
right hand pane to "Display the link to the Windows Update Catalogue".
Save
Settings and now click the new link to the Catalogue that has been added
to
the left hand pane.

MS KB 323166 - "HOW TO: Download Windows Updates and Drivers from the
Windows Update Catalog" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=323166).

Alternatively you can ask Microsoft to send you a copy of the free
Security
Update CD. See http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp
--?
Mike Maltby MS-MVP





Vickie wrote:
First let me apologize for my lack of technical
expertise/terminology. A few months ago I had to reformat
my hard drive and reinstall programs. Doing this set me
back to the year 2000 and I had to update lots of drivers
plus reinstall the many, many Windows Updates including
getting back to IE6. I fear there may be another hard
drive reformat looming and I'd like to know if there's a
way in WinME to backup the current drivers, Windows
Updates, etc. and then reload them. If so, how do I go
about it? I have a CD burner so maybe I could save them
on a CD?? Thanks in advance for any help!
Vickie

Hi - thanks for answering! My problems all seem to stem
from when I installed NAV2004 several months ago. All
kinds of things went wrong -- most error messages referred
to NAV2004 components. I had an email dialogue going with
them for months and months; their website is a nightmare
and everything they suggested always led to the same
thing: changing something in the Registry, which I'm not
about to try! Blue screens of death were common.
Sooo.... after checking out other A-V software I decided
to uninstall NAV2004 (for the 7484736th time!) last week
and go with something else: V-Com's System Suite5, which
has A-V from Trend Micro plus lots of other utilities &
stuff. That really messed things up so now I've
uninstalled System Suite 5 and I also did a System Restore
back to the day before I purchased it. (NAV2004 shows up
in Add/Remove Programs again but it isn't running - guess
I'll have to uninstall it again.) Last night I downloaded
& ran Stinger, something I'd never heard of but discovered
from other posts here.

Sorry to be so long, and maybe I still didn't even answer
your question!?! Thanks again for your help.

Glad to see you are getting rid of Norton as it plays havoc with WinME
especially the 2004 version, it just isn't compatable.
There are AV programs that don't cause so much trouble, you could always
try AVG from Grisoft it is free and many here use it.
Post back if you need any more help.
Joan

Vickie wrote:
Hi - thanks for answering! My problems all seem to stem
from when I installed NAV2004 several months ago. All
kinds of things went wrong -- most error messages referred
to NAV2004 components. I had an email dialogue going with
them for months and months; their website is a nightmare
and everything they suggested always led to the same
thing: changing something in the Registry, which I'm not
about to try! Blue screens of death were common.
Sooo.... after checking out other A-V software I decided
to uninstall NAV2004 (for the 7484736th time!) last week
and go with something else: V-Com's System Suite5, which
has A-V from Trend Micro plus lots of other utilities &
stuff. That really messed things up so now I've
uninstalled System Suite 5 and I also did a System Restore
back to the day before I purchased it. (NAV2004 shows up
in Add/Remove Programs again but it isn't running - guess
I'll have to uninstall it again.) Last night I downloaded
& ran Stinger, something I'd never heard of but discovered
from other posts here.

Sorry to be so long, and maybe I still didn't even answer
your question!?! Thanks again for your help.

Vickie.......Nav 2004 was the *kiss of death* for your computer. WinME does
not co-exist with it.

Why not try the free AVG antivirus proggie for now......instead of paying
for ones that don't work out. It is at www.grisoft.com

Oh.....and do a search for anything that has the words Norton or Symantec on
your hard drive and delete them. There is a long 3 page article at Symantec
on how to remove Norton entirely, btw.

Cheers.....Heather

"Vickie" wrote in message
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Hi - thanks for answering! My problems all seem to stem
from when I installed NAV2004 several months ago. All
kinds of things went wrong -- most error messages referred
to NAV2004 components. I had an email dialogue going with
them for months and months; their website is a nightmare
and everything they suggested always led to the same
thing: changing something in the Registry, which I'm not
about to try! Blue screens of death were common.
Sooo.... after checking out other A-V software I decided
to uninstall NAV2004 (for the 7484736th time!) last week
and go with something else: V-Com's System Suite5, which
has A-V from Trend Micro plus lots of other utilities &
stuff. That really messed things up so now I've
uninstalled System Suite 5 and I also did a System Restore
back to the day before I purchased it. (NAV2004 shows up
in Add/Remove Programs again but it isn't running - guess
I'll have to uninstall it again.) Last night I downloaded
& ran Stinger, something I'd never heard of but discovered
from other posts here.

Sorry to be so long, and maybe I still didn't even answer
your question!?! Thanks again for your help.

Hi! Thanks for answering! Sorry I'm late in replying;
couldn't get the message to expand - just one problem
among many. Here's what I've been doing: Since the items
in my control panel disappeared plus System Restore came
up as a blank window, in desperation I reinstalled Windows
Me yesterday! Scary, but seems to have worked okay. I
had tried to reinstall NAV2004 but installation hit an
error and aborted; then I couldn't get it to continue
installing and I couldn't uninstall what was there!! By
much digging around in the Symantec website (which I HATE)
I finally got all portions of NAV2004 uninstalled. On
someone's recommendation I tried to download the free
Panda A-V. The second the download completed, I would get
knocked off the internet - happened twice. Don't know
what was up with that. Anyway, I now have AVG and all
seems to be working well. Do you know if NAV2004 works
okay with Windows XP? Just wondering, in case we ever
upgrade to XP. Thanks again for answering!!

What is this fixation people have, that Norton is the answer to all their
problems????
It's more often the CAUSE of them!!

FYI, NAV2004 has less problems with XP than with ME - which is NOT to say
that it has none!!


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"Vickie" wrote in message
...
Hi! Thanks for answering! Sorry I'm late in replying;
couldn't get the message to expand - just one problem
among many. Here's what I've been doing: Since the items
in my control panel disappeared plus System Restore came
up as a blank window, in desperation I reinstalled Windows
Me yesterday! Scary, but seems to have worked okay. I
had tried to reinstall NAV2004 but installation hit an
error and aborted; then I couldn't get it to continue
installing and I couldn't uninstall what was there!! By
much digging around in the Symantec website (which I HATE)
I finally got all portions of NAV2004 uninstalled. On
someone's recommendation I tried to download the free
Panda A-V. The second the download completed, I would get
knocked off the internet - happened twice. Don't know
what was up with that. Anyway, I now have AVG and all
seems to be working well. Do you know if NAV2004 works
okay with Windows XP? Just wondering, in case we ever
upgrade to XP. Thanks again for answering!!