Speaking of Windows success stories ....

[Jim Roby]

If you can't boot from floppy,you may have a hardware problem.  Enter CMOS
and make it boot from floppy first..once at a command line, cd to
windows\system and run scanreg.exe..(assume 98,since I don't think they
make the media program for 95)it will alow you to load a previous saved
copy of the the registry from before you loaded M$media (which is a
horrible 500lb gorilla).  Next purchase a copy of Powerquest drive
image,;only way to deal with the registry: wipe it and go back in time. 

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Robert Green wrote:

> The funny quotes reminded me -- I have a windows sucks-sess story of
> my own, perhaps one of you folks may have a magic pill suggestion for
> me ...
> 
> I was trying to listen to a streaming audio program last week on my
> win 98 box, and it told me it wanted a new version of MS media
> player, so I downloaded the program and tried to install it. It told
> me it wanted to do a reboot to finish the install in typical windows
> fashion, and it was never able to start up since. It tries to boot
> and crashes during the startup. 
> 
> I can't even get it to start in "Safe" mode. I *can* get command line
> mode, or to boot from a startup floppy, but neither of those seem to
> be of much use to me.
> 
> If anybody has run into something similar, or if you're feeling
> adventurous, I would welcome any suggestions. I would just pitch the
> whole thing out the door and stick to linux only but I have some
> applications for my scanner and digital camera, PDA, etc., that I
> cn't replace with Linux. MS's support web site didn't seem yield up
> anything useful so far. Apparently they never considered that you
> would not be able to start up at least in safe mode. 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rob
> 
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