A Question About Reinstalling Win ME From The Hard Drive

This is all just LeCarre spook-speak, right, and I just ignore it for my own
good ...

Is your "Biggleswade" a grocery store? Does the princess drink capacino ...
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Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
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Your cooperation is very appreciated.
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"Mike M" wrote in message
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She's probably busy right now and saw a message about being swamped with
e-mail but I think you should contact either her or Katie as I received
e-mail confirmation by return. I've no idea as to the program though.
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Mike


Noel Paton wrote:

I'll be there - although I've heard no more about it from the
princess......

Now if the MVP program in the US had a similar arrangement to other
countries you'd understand. :-) Unlike the US most MVPs worldwide have
local leads as well as global leads whereas our poor American colleagues
in the main have just a global lead.

As for the princess she has been known to wear a tu-tu and sing a fair
song and can hold her own with a glass. As for the gentleman from
Biggleswade (it's a place, just like Boston but just a tad smaller) he's
been known to post in this NG and has even done so today. g
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In memory of a very dear friend, Windows MVP Alex Nichol

Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Jack E Martinelli wrote:

This is all just LeCarre spook-speak, right, and I just ignore it for
my own good ...

Is your "Biggleswade" a grocery store? Does the princess drink
capacino ...

LOL......I would like to see this Princess with the King of the Cranberry
Bogs in Biggleswade. Maybe some day I Will.

Groan......Figgs

"Mike M" wrote in message
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Now if the MVP program in the US had a similar arrangement to other
countries you'd understand. :-) Unlike the US most MVPs worldwide have
local leads as well as global leads whereas our poor American colleagues
in the main have just a global lead.

As for the princess she has been known to wear a tu-tu and sing a fair
song and can hold her own with a glass. As for the gentleman from
Biggleswade (it's a place, just like Boston but just a tad smaller) he's
been known to post in this NG and has even done so today. g
--
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/nichol.mspx
In memory of a very dear friend, Windows MVP Alex Nichol

Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Jack E Martinelli wrote:

This is all just LeCarre spook-speak, right, and I just ignore it for
my own good ...

Is your "Biggleswade" a grocery store? Does the princess drink
capacino ...

Ouch. Looks though as if it really is time for bed. :-)

Cheers,
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

LOL......I would like to see this Princess with the King of the
Cranberry Bogs in Biggleswade. Maybe some day I Will.

Groan......Figgs

LOL.....couldn't resist that!!

Get to bed, Sir Michael.......4 am over there!!

Heather
"Mike M" wrote in message
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Ouch. Looks though as if it really is time for bed. :-)

Cheers,
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

LOL......I would like to see this Princess with the King of the
Cranberry Bogs in Biggleswade. Maybe some day I Will.

Groan......Figgs

Good Luck! (and thanks for the well-wishes!)


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol
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Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

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"Noel Paton" wrote in
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I'll put the responses where they need to be - against the questions
asked....






Thank you for all of your help Noel. That cleared up all of my worries. I
spent all night writing CDs. I have 90% of my HD on CD now. I am going to
start the restore shortly. Wish me luck!

Hope you get feeling better.

And he can't blame me for keeping him up, we finished talking about 10
but I did help him solve a problem g
Joan

Heather wrote:
LOL.....couldn't resist that!!

Get to bed, Sir Michael.......4 am over there!!

Now I'm laughing so hard, I can barely type ...
The fun never stops in your neighborhood, I see.
--
Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx
In Memorium: Alex Nichol
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/nichol.mspx
Your cooperation is very appreciated.
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"Joan Archer" wrote in message
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And he can't blame me for keeping him up, we finished talking about 10
but I did help him solve a problem g
Joan

Heather wrote:
LOL.....couldn't resist that!!

Get to bed, Sir Michael.......4 am over there!!

lol You can't not have fun in here, just one big happy family g
Joan

Jack E Martinelli wrote:
Now I'm laughing so hard, I can barely type ...
The fun never stops in your neighborhood, I see.

"Noel Paton" wrote in
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Good Luck! (and thanks for the well-wishes!)




First off, thanks for all of your help Noel (and you're welcome, if you are
reading this).

I reinstalled ME over itself and it works beautifully now...except for one
rather large problem.

I ran the reinstall and all went well. However, when setup restarts the PC in
order to install the system files, configurations, etc., I get the Compaq
screen but it immediately switches to a black screen that reads something
like:


Windows is preparing to start your new computer.

Please press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart.


It does this repeatedly. It boots fine into safe mode but the only way I can
get the PC to start normally is to boot using the step-by-step configuration.
This got WinME to finish installing.

While running Windows everything is great, no errors what-so-ever, but the
only way I can boot normally into Windows is by using the step-by-step
configuration. I have to choose "Yes" to everything except AUTOEXEC.BAT

I have tried editing AUTOEXEC.BAT, using the original that I had backed up,
tried deleting it entirely, and tried deleting all of the entries in the file
itself and then making it "Read-Only", but it always comes back with the
exact same entries (and effects) as before.

The only thing that I can see that AUTOEXEC.BAT does is to load certain
'enviroment variables' such as the boot path, etc. Why, I wonder could this
file (or associated files/reg entries) be causing so much havoc during the
system boot?

I ran through the entire system with anti-spyware & AV programs before the
reinstall and after, so that couldn't be the problem (3 AV programs - Panda,
AV, & McAfee, the system's default BIOS AV scan, and 4 different spyware
programs).

I made sure that WMP 9.0 & IE6 were uninstalled. I also had to uninstall
certain programs that kept adding themselves to the startup list after having
been repeatedly removed (McAfee, AV, TweakUI). After all of that and
reinstalling 4 times, I am still having this problem.

The system runs great now but it is rather annoying to spend nearly 10
minutes every time I have to boot up.

I have encountered many people on the net with the exact same problem & under
the exact same conditions but noone seems to know what causes this. Does
anyone have any ideas?