98 misbehaving after start in safe mode

Hi!

I have a serious problem. My brpther went to restart, and the start-up program hung. After four hours, I finally got the puter to start in safe mode. Now, my color settings, toolbar, etc. are not responding to change commands, and I have several programs that will not display, even though I did not prompt them to be disabled. Any tips and advice will be so much appreciated; this is making me insane!!!!!

Thanks, Elizabeth:

 

Hi, and welcome to the boards.
Safe Mode is windows loaded with minimal drivers. Just enough to fix the problem preventing you from getting into Normal Mode.
Do you have any yellow or red marks in the Device Manager? Right click on My Computer and select Properties, then click on the Device Manager tab.
What were you installing, uninstalling at the time?
Any and all info can be helpful.

 

From email:
As to your question, nothing was being done at the time but a common restart.

I did as you suggested with the Device Manager, and this is what I found- yellow ! at Existing Ndis2 Driver, Iomega Clik! Parallel Port Interface and Iomega Parallel Port Zip Interface. How should proceed, and what does this mean?
tuplohunnie71, please keep everything on the board so that others can follow and give some advice.

You seem to have some conflicts there, that or some drivers are missing.
I see one quick thing to try, get the computer to boot to a command prompt, and do this command, scanreg /restore. You will be able to restore a registry dated before this happened.
The alternative is to Remove those items and any duplicate entries matching them. Reboot.
If they reappear, double click the Yellow items, then click on the Drivers and Resources tabs, and post any error messages there.