woe is me. saving the new boot.ini file to c didn't help. on my second reboot, it faliled with the message 'missing root system32 hal.dll. I guess...
To make it even more confusing, I checked my Bios boot disk order, and it indicates HDD3, of course I realize that designation isn't necessarily...
Oops my last post was before I saw you latest message.
Still problems. I made a floppy of your editboot.ini. The exe file would only work if I booted from the floppy... so OK I chose first the F disk,...
Thanks Surferdude2... west coast or east coast? Any way there was no boot.ini on my F drive, I tried copying the one from C over, but that didn't...
Because of the way I upgraded to XP from 98 years ago, my boot drive became "F" instead of C. It was and still is, physically the C system drive...
I am using Outlook Express 6, and want to import my Netscape Mail contacts. I believe they are contained in a Mozilla .mab file. So far I haven't...
I have been meaning to get back to this post for days. Thanks again, Rockster2u. I looked at the sticky malware posting, and between those...
Thanks Rockster2U. Actually the suitcase is on a high shelf in the garage. It still displays the Osborne logo when it turns on, but the system...
Many years ago, before Windows, and before Windows and systems became so complex, I found that Norton did a fair job of curing the occasional ills...
Well, safe mode didn't work, and I use McAfee for anti virus. Thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks Whiskeyman. Not using either SpyBot S&D and SpywareBlaster. I see another post with the same problem, that has gone unresolved, it...
Thanks for the input, Steve. I did that already... no help. Plus, I have done virus and trojan scans, and cleaned out spyware and tracking...
IE7 defaults to MSN as home page. I can go through the motions of changing it in Internet Options with no error messages, but it still defaults to...
WOW... so simple. That did it! Thanks Pete.
This is a problem I have ignored for far too long. For a couple of years now, I have been unable to use the system recovery tool. When I choose a...
I would like to know if there is some way to check to see if email I send has been received (not necessarily read) with out resorting to a return...
I have talked to Canyon Software again and it turns out the icons aren't unique to PowerFile. PowerFile queries Windows and uses the same icons...
Thanks for the link Welshjim. The Powerfile people say they are the same icons that Windows uses. They look like the ones in Explorer. I'll see...
Thanks for the tip Pete, but that did not work. I should have mentioned that the icons still appear in Window Explorer, just not in Power File. I...
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