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Internet explorer updates for windows Me
Hello, I have a windows Me and I went to the microsoft updates site and it
suggested I download IE6 service pack, after downloading it will not fully instal and the control panel is blank and the help menu will not work, it claims there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank. Scan disk freezes just before completing. How doI fully instal the service pack? or is there something else I need to do? any help would be appreciated. |
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Internet explorer updates for windows Me
Hmm... Perhaps a clue might be in your statement :-
... Scan disk freezes just before completing. You *may* have the onset of a failing HDD (main hard drive) - which could explain your report that "there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank." Depending on how important your personal files are to you, you may wish to consider professional assistance to re-claim those file before they become unrecoverable. However, if you are prepared to 'have a go' yourself to see if you can fix you PC, then you should try booting from your WinMe (floppy) Startup Disk (if you have one. If not, come back and someone should be able to help) and running Scandisk in Real Mode DOS as follows :- Boot, using your WinMe Startup (floppy) Disk and select 'With CD-ROM Support' then at the A:\ prompt, type "scandisk c:" (no quotes and note there is a colon after the letter c) then press Return. Follow the screen prompts - and for the first time at least, (unless you are happy that either the disk is OK, or you can sacrifice your data) tell it NOT to do a Surface Scan. See what it reports and keep a check on its progress. If it reports major problems, copy your important data to another drive (or media) before attempting to write to (surface scan) the disk. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Worry about the IE 6 Service pack later. Good luck Mart "Dean" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a windows Me and I went to the microsoft updates site and it suggested I download IE6 service pack, after downloading it will not fully instal and the control panel is blank and the help menu will not work, it claims there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank. Scan disk freezes just before completing. How doI fully instal the service pack? or is there something else I need to do? any help would be appreciated. |
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thanks Mart,
I found the Me installation disk and ran scan disk in MS Dos mode a number of times and about 30 problems were fixed, the computer is running, everything is working. After the fourth time at the end there was a message reading, "the drive has some long file name errors that can be fixed by running scan disk in windows". When i try to do that scandisk restarts many times and a message appears saying, " Scandisk has restarted 10 times because windows or another program is writing to it, quitting running some programs may enable Scan disk to fininsh sooner." So I have tried to uninstal some programs but that has not helped scandisk. and the service pack for IE6 still won't instal. Any further advice? Dean. "Mart" wrote: Hmm... Perhaps a clue might be in your statement :- ... Scan disk freezes just before completing. You *may* have the onset of a failing HDD (main hard drive) - which could explain your report that "there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank." Depending on how important your personal files are to you, you may wish to consider professional assistance to re-claim those file before they become unrecoverable. However, if you are prepared to 'have a go' yourself to see if you can fix you PC, then you should try booting from your WinMe (floppy) Startup Disk (if you have one. If not, come back and someone should be able to help) and running Scandisk in Real Mode DOS as follows :- Boot, using your WinMe Startup (floppy) Disk and select 'With CD-ROM Support' then at the A:\ prompt, type "scandisk c:" (no quotes and note there is a colon after the letter c) then press Return. Follow the screen prompts - and for the first time at least, (unless you are happy that either the disk is OK, or you can sacrifice your data) tell it NOT to do a Surface Scan. See what it reports and keep a check on its progress. If it reports major problems, copy your important data to another drive (or media) before attempting to write to (surface scan) the disk. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Worry about the IE 6 Service pack later. Good luck Mart "Dean" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a windows Me and I went to the microsoft updates site and it suggested I download IE6 service pack, after downloading it will not fully instal and the control panel is blank and the help menu will not work, it claims there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank. Scan disk freezes just before completing. How doI fully instal the service pack? or is there something else I need to do? any help would be appreciated. |
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Internet explorer updates for windows Me
Oh dear!... Well, my original diagnosis of a potentially failing HDD hasn't
really been alleviated at all. "..a number of times" "and about 30 problems were fixed .." does not sound too promising. The fact that "Scandisk has restarted 10 times" is not in itself unusual and there may be a 'good' unrelated reason which I won't expand on at this stage. You could try running Scandisk in Safe Mode which may temporality overcome the 10 restart report. However, did you try my original suggestion of running a surface scan in Real Mode DOS and if so, do you get consistently clear runs? Any bad sectors? You must completely eliminate your HDD beyond all doubt. Sadly, I also think that the '30 problems' may have included some important stuff which although allegedly 'fixed', have caused other issues - lost or damaged files which may by now have actually been deleted and/or become unrecoverable. Not knowing (from here) what else is damaged (and my guess is a lot), my strategy would be to cut my losses and do a complete CLEAN re-install. It could save an awful lot of time. Probably not what you really wanted to hear g Mart "Dean" wrote in message ... thanks Mart, I found the Me installation disk and ran scan disk in MS Dos mode a number of times and about 30 problems were fixed, the computer is running, everything is working. After the fourth time at the end there was a message reading, "the drive has some long file name errors that can be fixed by running scan disk in windows". When i try to do that scandisk restarts many times and a message appears saying, " Scandisk has restarted 10 times because windows or another program is writing to it, quitting running some programs may enable Scan disk to fininsh sooner." So I have tried to uninstal some programs but that has not helped scandisk. and the service pack for IE6 still won't instal. Any further advice? Dean. "Mart" wrote: Hmm... Perhaps a clue might be in your statement :- ... Scan disk freezes just before completing. You *may* have the onset of a failing HDD (main hard drive) - which could explain your report that "there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank." Depending on how important your personal files are to you, you may wish to consider professional assistance to re-claim those file before they become unrecoverable. However, if you are prepared to 'have a go' yourself to see if you can fix you PC, then you should try booting from your WinMe (floppy) Startup Disk (if you have one. If not, come back and someone should be able to help) and running Scandisk in Real Mode DOS as follows :- Boot, using your WinMe Startup (floppy) Disk and select 'With CD-ROM Support' then at the A:\ prompt, type "scandisk c:" (no quotes and note there is a colon after the letter c) then press Return. Follow the screen prompts - and for the first time at least, (unless you are happy that either the disk is OK, or you can sacrifice your data) tell it NOT to do a Surface Scan. See what it reports and keep a check on its progress. If it reports major problems, copy your important data to another drive (or media) before attempting to write to (surface scan) the disk. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Worry about the IE 6 Service pack later. Good luck Mart "Dean" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a windows Me and I went to the microsoft updates site and it suggested I download IE6 service pack, after downloading it will not fully instal and the control panel is blank and the help menu will not work, it claims there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank. Scan disk freezes just before completing. How doI fully instal the service pack? or is there something else I need to do? any help would be appreciated. |
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Internet explorer updates for windows Me
after the surface scan the scan report claimed there are no bad sectors, but
the visual picture of the scan had a "B" for bad cluster over the seventh cluster only and thats all. the scans went well in DOS mode. I have let it run scandisk in windows for the past 2 days and it restarts now only twice during the file allocation tables then continues without a problem, and the restart message has stopped appearing. How do I re-instal? Dean "Mart" wrote: Oh dear!... Well, my original diagnosis of a potentially failing HDD hasn't really been alleviated at all. "..a number of times" "and about 30 problems were fixed .." does not sound too promising. The fact that "Scandisk has restarted 10 times" is not in itself unusual and there may be a 'good' unrelated reason which I won't expand on at this stage. You could try running Scandisk in Safe Mode which may temporality overcome the 10 restart report. However, did you try my original suggestion of running a surface scan in Real Mode DOS and if so, do you get consistently clear runs? Any bad sectors? You must completely eliminate your HDD beyond all doubt. Sadly, I also think that the '30 problems' may have included some important stuff which although allegedly 'fixed', have caused other issues - lost or damaged files which may by now have actually been deleted and/or become unrecoverable. Not knowing (from here) what else is damaged (and my guess is a lot), my strategy would be to cut my losses and do a complete CLEAN re-install. It could save an awful lot of time. Probably not what you really wanted to hear g Mart "Dean" wrote in message ... thanks Mart, I found the Me installation disk and ran scan disk in MS Dos mode a number of times and about 30 problems were fixed, the computer is running, everything is working. After the fourth time at the end there was a message reading, "the drive has some long file name errors that can be fixed by running scan disk in windows". When i try to do that scandisk restarts many times and a message appears saying, " Scandisk has restarted 10 times because windows or another program is writing to it, quitting running some programs may enable Scan disk to fininsh sooner." So I have tried to uninstal some programs but that has not helped scandisk. and the service pack for IE6 still won't instal. Any further advice? Dean. "Mart" wrote: Hmm... Perhaps a clue might be in your statement :- ... Scan disk freezes just before completing. You *may* have the onset of a failing HDD (main hard drive) - which could explain your report that "there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank." Depending on how important your personal files are to you, you may wish to consider professional assistance to re-claim those file before they become unrecoverable. However, if you are prepared to 'have a go' yourself to see if you can fix you PC, then you should try booting from your WinMe (floppy) Startup Disk (if you have one. If not, come back and someone should be able to help) and running Scandisk in Real Mode DOS as follows :- Boot, using your WinMe Startup (floppy) Disk and select 'With CD-ROM Support' then at the A:\ prompt, type "scandisk c:" (no quotes and note there is a colon after the letter c) then press Return. Follow the screen prompts - and for the first time at least, (unless you are happy that either the disk is OK, or you can sacrifice your data) tell it NOT to do a Surface Scan. See what it reports and keep a check on its progress. If it reports major problems, copy your important data to another drive (or media) before attempting to write to (surface scan) the disk. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Worry about the IE 6 Service pack later. Good luck Mart "Dean" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a windows Me and I went to the microsoft updates site and it suggested I download IE6 service pack, after downloading it will not fully instal and the control panel is blank and the help menu will not work, it claims there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank. Scan disk freezes just before completing. How doI fully instal the service pack? or is there something else I need to do? any help would be appreciated. |
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Internet explorer updates for windows Me
Before we consider a clean install, in my experience, even one bad cluster
is one bad cluster too many - and a sure sign of an impending (catastrophic) failure of your HDD, especially if it is more than 3 or 4 years old. You really should consider a new, replacement drive - BUT, you've got to weigh the economic costs (and time!) of 'repairing' an old, obsolete PC (motherboard, other hardware, etc.) and its old, obsolete operating ystem - Good money after bad? You might want to think about putting your money towards a brand new PC and OS. Prices of PC's are about a quarter of the price when WinMe originally came out in June of 2000. - For a much improved spec. How do I re-instal? Depends :- Assuming your WinMe CD is an MS retail version, then if you still want to proceed then there are a couple of very useful documents on your WinMe CD called setup.txt file and cleanhd.txt which are well worth reading. You should also print out and have handy, a copy of the cleanhd.txt file - a copy of which you can also see here :- "Windows Millennium Edition Cleanhd.txt File Contents" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271673/en-us You should also make sure that you have a note of your 25 digit product ID code issued with the CD, you'll need it during the installation process. If your WinMe CD is an OEM version (ie originally supplied with the PC) you should refer to the User Manual that came with the PC for advice as differing manufacturers methods can be quite different. Depending on which route you choose (if at all) then there are still a few of us lurking these WinMe News Group pages who be able to help you further. Mart "Dean" wrote in message ... after the surface scan the scan report claimed there are no bad sectors, but the visual picture of the scan had a "B" for bad cluster over the seventh cluster only and thats all. the scans went well in DOS mode. I have let it run scandisk in windows for the past 2 days and it restarts now only twice during the file allocation tables then continues without a problem, and the restart message has stopped appearing. How do I re-instal? Dean "Mart" wrote: Oh dear!... Well, my original diagnosis of a potentially failing HDD hasn't really been alleviated at all. "..a number of times" "and about 30 problems were fixed .." does not sound too promising. The fact that "Scandisk has restarted 10 times" is not in itself unusual and there may be a 'good' unrelated reason which I won't expand on at this stage. You could try running Scandisk in Safe Mode which may temporality overcome the 10 restart report. However, did you try my original suggestion of running a surface scan in Real Mode DOS and if so, do you get consistently clear runs? Any bad sectors? You must completely eliminate your HDD beyond all doubt. Sadly, I also think that the '30 problems' may have included some important stuff which although allegedly 'fixed', have caused other issues - lost or damaged files which may by now have actually been deleted and/or become unrecoverable. Not knowing (from here) what else is damaged (and my guess is a lot), my strategy would be to cut my losses and do a complete CLEAN re-install. It could save an awful lot of time. Probably not what you really wanted to hear g Mart "Dean" wrote in message ... thanks Mart, I found the Me installation disk and ran scan disk in MS Dos mode a number of times and about 30 problems were fixed, the computer is running, everything is working. After the fourth time at the end there was a message reading, "the drive has some long file name errors that can be fixed by running scan disk in windows". When i try to do that scandisk restarts many times and a message appears saying, " Scandisk has restarted 10 times because windows or another program is writing to it, quitting running some programs may enable Scan disk to fininsh sooner." So I have tried to uninstal some programs but that has not helped scandisk. and the service pack for IE6 still won't instal. Any further advice? Dean. "Mart" wrote: Hmm... Perhaps a clue might be in your statement :- ... Scan disk freezes just before completing. You *may* have the onset of a failing HDD (main hard drive) - which could explain your report that "there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank." Depending on how important your personal files are to you, you may wish to consider professional assistance to re-claim those file before they become unrecoverable. However, if you are prepared to 'have a go' yourself to see if you can fix you PC, then you should try booting from your WinMe (floppy) Startup Disk (if you have one. If not, come back and someone should be able to help) and running Scandisk in Real Mode DOS as follows :- Boot, using your WinMe Startup (floppy) Disk and select 'With CD-ROM Support' then at the A:\ prompt, type "scandisk c:" (no quotes and note there is a colon after the letter c) then press Return. Follow the screen prompts - and for the first time at least, (unless you are happy that either the disk is OK, or you can sacrifice your data) tell it NOT to do a Surface Scan. See what it reports and keep a check on its progress. If it reports major problems, copy your important data to another drive (or media) before attempting to write to (surface scan) the disk. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Worry about the IE 6 Service pack later. Good luck Mart "Dean" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a windows Me and I went to the microsoft updates site and it suggested I download IE6 service pack, after downloading it will not fully instal and the control panel is blank and the help menu will not work, it claims there is an error accessing the registry, and the system information files claim they are corrupt and the page is blank. Scan disk freezes just before completing. How doI fully instal the service pack? or is there something else I need to do? any help would be appreciated. |
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