Yes, pressing F8 at as the first boot screen fades will invoke the Advanced Options Menu and you can select Safe Mode from there. Do not hold the...
Thanks for reporting back your success Tim. FYI, This quirk is most often caused by opening Explorer or My Computer and clicking on the Tools >...
Have you tried booting to Safe Mode? If you can get there, you can run System Restore from there. What was the name of the infected file you...
Go to Start > Run and type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll and click OK. That will normally fix this problem. Be mindful of the two spaces in that...
Try reinstalling System Restore. Do a drive search for a file named sr.inf. When found, it should be in the C:\Windows\inf folder. Right...
See if it hangs in Safe Mode. If not, it's probably some program you are running that is failing to close and hanging the system. You can...
That's nice to hear! You can thank Arie for the most part. I just coached a little from the sidelines. The article he made available makes the...
For those who don't like to manually edit their Registry, Kelly Theriot has made a couple of .reg file available that will do the work for you....
Great! I'm out of here for a while but I'll check back later.
Yes. It will be the source for the boot files.
:) Now if it will boot, you're home free!
You must run the script from the M: drive when the prompt shows M:\> The it must be as I gave it: windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe...
Get rid of that space after the M:
If your folder is named XP and not XP-CD then you must change the command script to: windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe /integrate:M:\xp...
You are not using the correct file name for the SP file. You must use the file name and the extension, as it is given on your drive. You said it...
That's good advice, don't check that box.
I think that would be the safest way, other than avoiding making multi-session CD's altogether, as I do. I hate to hear that the Undisker...
They can be nearly anywhere on your drive, depending on how you set the criteria for compressing them. When you highlight that option, you will...
Hi Mel, You could try Undisker which is able to open iso files and extract data via drag and drop. No guarantees that it will help you but...
I have had the Registry key for mounted devices cause problems (not your type however) and have fixed them by deleting everything in the key...
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