Windows ME Hangs Upon Start-Up

Hello,

I am hoping thatsome one could kindly please help.

Upon start-up, I get to my wallpaper and then that is it.
It just hangs there and you cannot see any icons not eeven
my task bar or START. I will get a dialog box to close
program "devldr16". But I cannot end task and close this
program. Also when I re-start sometimes, I'll get this
error" "stmgr has caused an error in SMGR.DLL. stmgr will
now close." It is as though Windows ME just hangs because
this "devldr16" cannot close. I cannot get into device
manager or anything. All I see is those two different
dialog boxes as described above, and my wallpaper. It
seems to boot up just fine otherwise.

I would greatly appreciate any help, since I go to school
by distance education and need my pc working. It is a
Dell Dimension 8100 desktop Pentium 4.

Thank you so much for any help or clues.

Sincerely,

Nicolette

Have you tried booting into Safe Mode (Ctrl or F8 keys at bootup)?

If you can get into Safe Mode, let it run until you finally reach the Help
Console and halfway down the page, you will see the System Restore option.
Run SR and roll-back to the last time/date that the pc worked OK.

Mart


"Nicolette" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I am hoping thatsome one could kindly please help.

Upon start-up, I get to my wallpaper and then that is it.
It just hangs there and you cannot see any icons not eeven
my task bar or START. I will get a dialog box to close
program "devldr16". But I cannot end task and close this
program. Also when I re-start sometimes, I'll get this
error" "stmgr has caused an error in SMGR.DLL. stmgr will
now close." It is as though Windows ME just hangs because
this "devldr16" cannot close. I cannot get into device
manager or anything. All I see is those two different
dialog boxes as described above, and my wallpaper. It
seems to boot up just fine otherwise.

I would greatly appreciate any help, since I go to school
by distance education and need my pc working. It is a
Dell Dimension 8100 desktop Pentium 4.

Thank you so much for any help or clues.

Sincerely,

Nicolette

Thank you, Mart. I will try it this evening when I get
home and let you know. Yes, I have had it in safe mode,
but as I recall it just freezes there as well. It is like
I cannot do anything until I close that stinkin' "devldr16"
program.

I really do appreciate your response.

Sincerely,
Nicolette
-----Original Message-----
Have you tried booting into Safe Mode (Ctrl or F8 keys at
bootup)?

If you can get into Safe Mode, let it run until you
finally reach the Help
Console and halfway down the page, you will see the
System Restore option.
Run SR and roll-back to the last time/date that the pc
worked OK.

Mart


"Nicolette" wrote
in message
...
Hello,

I am hoping thatsome one could kindly please help.

Upon start-up, I get to my wallpaper and then that is
it.
It just hangs there and you cannot see any icons not
eeven
my task bar or START. I will get a dialog box to close
program "devldr16". But I cannot end task and close
this
program. Also when I re-start sometimes, I'll get this
error" "stmgr has caused an error in SMGR.DLL. stmgr
will
now close." It is as though Windows ME just hangs
because
this "devldr16" cannot close. I cannot get into device
manager or anything. All I see is those two different
dialog boxes as described above, and my wallpaper. It
seems to boot up just fine otherwise.

I would greatly appreciate any help, since I go to
school
by distance education and need my pc working. It is a
Dell Dimension 8100 desktop Pentium 4.

Thank you so much for any help or clues.

Sincerely,

Nicolette



.

Nicolette, in the meantime I've been looking on the web for references to
devldr16 and it appears to be related to a 'troublesome' Creative Labs
Soundcard utility.
See:- http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...tasklist_d.htm
which probably gives the best 'authoritive' explanation and 'solution'.
But if you do a google search for "devldr16", you will find plenty of 'user
group' responses to this issue and you may just have to pick the best one to
suite your machine.

Sounds like your soundcard drivers/software aren't totally WinMe
compatible - particularly for DOS applications - but that's no surprise g.
Creative's highly respected reputation seemed to 'nosedive' with the
introduction of WinMe.

Good luck and I hope you are able to stabilise your PC without having to
change your soundcard

Mart


"Nicolette" wrote in message
...
Thank you, Mart. I will try it this evening when I get
home and let you know. Yes, I have had it in safe mode,
but as I recall it just freezes there as well. It is like
I cannot do anything until I close that stinkin' "devldr16"
program.

I really do appreciate your response.

Sincerely,
Nicolette
-----Original Message-----
Have you tried booting into Safe Mode (Ctrl or F8 keys at
bootup)?

If you can get into Safe Mode, let it run until you
finally reach the Help
Console and halfway down the page, you will see the
System Restore option.
Run SR and roll-back to the last time/date that the pc
worked OK.

Mart


"Nicolette" wrote
in message
...
Hello,

I am hoping thatsome one could kindly please help.

Upon start-up, I get to my wallpaper and then that is
it.
It just hangs there and you cannot see any icons not
eeven
my task bar or START. I will get a dialog box to close
program "devldr16". But I cannot end task and close
this
program. Also when I re-start sometimes, I'll get this
error" "stmgr has caused an error in SMGR.DLL. stmgr
will
now close." It is as though Windows ME just hangs
because
this "devldr16" cannot close. I cannot get into device
manager or anything. All I see is those two different
dialog boxes as described above, and my wallpaper. It
seems to boot up just fine otherwise.

I would greatly appreciate any help, since I go to
school
by distance education and need my pc working. It is a
Dell Dimension 8100 desktop Pentium 4.

Thank you so much for any help or clues.

Sincerely,

Nicolette



.

Well, this sounds familiar. I am having the exact same
problem. Sorry, I cannot help. I just get the wallpaper
(even in safe mode). ???