Windows Me Just QUIT

Last night my kid called me at work saying he couldn't use internet
explorer. He could get e-mail, play diablo II on-line etc. but got an
error everytime he tried to use explorer. It said there was a missing
..dll file even though a search showed the file to be present.

I figured maybe the file had been corrupted somehow and suggested he
re-install Win Me. He did this and still had the same problem. Today
he called me at work again saying that windows wouldn't even boot up.
I tried it when I got home and got an "error in explorer.exe, please
reinstall windows" error.

I tried reinstalling Windows ME but it says there is no boot record on
my CD Rom Drive. I tried the Windows Me Start-up floppy... says
there's no boot record. It says the Hard Drive boot record is ok...
but can't figure out how to boot to DOS so I can try to configure
stuff through DOS.

Is there an F-Key or anyway to boot to dos in ME?

I would prefer not to format this drive if I don't have to as I still
had a few work files on it when I gave it to him.

It's an 1800+ AMD with a 40 GB Maxtor hard drive.

I can be reached at bytrydr@telus.net

TIA

I had the same problem. If you are running Norton SystemWorks 2002, you
need to reload Norton instead of WindowsME.

byteryder wrote:
> Last night my kid called me at work saying he couldn't use internet
> explorer. He could get e-mail, play diablo II on-line etc. but got an
> error everytime he tried to use explorer. It said there was a missing
> .dll file even though a search showed the file to be present.
>
> I figured maybe the file had been corrupted somehow and suggested he
> re-install Win Me. He did this and still had the same problem. Today
> he called me at work again saying that windows wouldn't even boot up.
> I tried it when I got home and got an "error in explorer.exe, please
> reinstall windows" error.
>
> I tried reinstalling Windows ME but it says there is no boot record on
> my CD Rom Drive. I tried the Windows Me Start-up floppy... says
> there's no boot record. It says the Hard Drive boot record is ok...
> but can't figure out how to boot to DOS so I can try to configure
> stuff through DOS.
>
> Is there an F-Key or anyway to boot to dos in ME?
>
> I would prefer not to format this drive if I don't have to as I still
> had a few work files on it when I gave it to him.
>
> It's an 1800+ AMD with a 40 GB Maxtor hard drive.
>
> I can be reached at bytrydr@telus.net
>
> TIA

Kinda sounds like a bootsector virus, have Norton or something?. Did you
try a System disk maybe and a FDISK/ MBR?

"byteryder" <bytryder@telus.net> wrote in message
news:gf1b6059coo65obsgkgcsonabhfr78bqes@4ax.com...
> Last night my kid called me at work saying he couldn't use internet
> explorer. He could get e-mail, play diablo II on-line etc. but got an
> error everytime he tried to use explorer. It said there was a missing
> .dll file even though a search showed the file to be present.
>
> I figured maybe the file had been corrupted somehow and suggested he
> re-install Win Me. He did this and still had the same problem. Today
> he called me at work again saying that windows wouldn't even boot up.
> I tried it when I got home and got an "error in explorer.exe, please
> reinstall windows" error.
>
> I tried reinstalling Windows ME but it says there is no boot record on
> my CD Rom Drive. I tried the Windows Me Start-up floppy... says
> there's no boot record. It says the Hard Drive boot record is ok...
> but can't figure out how to boot to DOS so I can try to configure
> stuff through DOS.
>
> Is there an F-Key or anyway to boot to dos in ME?
>
> I would prefer not to format this drive if I don't have to as I still
> had a few work files on it when I gave it to him.
>
> It's an 1800+ AMD with a 40 GB Maxtor hard drive.
>
> I can be reached at bytrydr@telus.net
>
> TIA

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 13:51:07 GMT Letting slip the dogs of war
byteryder <bytryder@telus.net> wrote :

>Last night my kid called me at work saying he couldn't use internet
>explorer. He could get e-mail, play diablo II on-line etc. but got an
>error everytime he tried to use explorer. It said there was a missing
>.dll file even though a search showed the file to be present.
>
>I figured maybe the file had been corrupted somehow and suggested he
>re-install Win Me. He did this and still had the same problem. Today
>he called me at work again saying that windows wouldn't even boot up.
>I tried it when I got home and got an "error in explorer.exe, please
>reinstall windows" error.
>
>I tried reinstalling Windows ME but it says there is no boot record on
>my CD Rom Drive. I tried the Windows Me Start-up floppy... says
>there's no boot record. It says the Hard Drive boot record is ok...
>but can't figure out how to boot to DOS so I can try to configure
>stuff through DOS.
>
>Is there an F-Key or anyway to boot to dos in ME?

No.

>I would prefer not to format this drive if I don't have to as I still
>had a few work files on it when I gave it to him.
>
>It's an 1800+ AMD with a 40 GB Maxtor hard drive.

I would
Pause the boot loader screens using the Keyboard pause key and make
sure the hard drive/s are seen by the BIOS(Enter Key to Continue).Then
I would check all hardware cables.





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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:48:05 +0000, Shep© <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

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>>
>>I tried reinstalling Windows ME but it says there is no boot record on
>>my CD Rom Drive. I tried the Windows Me Start-up floppy... says
>>there's no boot record. It says the Hard Drive boot record is ok...
>>but can't figure out how to boot to DOS so I can try to configure
>>stuff through DOS.
>>
>>Is there an F-Key or anyway to boot to dos in ME?
>
Could always try google ...boot disk for dos brings up many sites
supposedly able to supply boot disks. This would get you into dos,
Have you tried using a virus checker? If you haven't, not much point
doing anything else to the box. Only after running one would I put a
boot disk in the slot.

>
>>I would prefer not to format this drive if I don't have to as I still
>>had a few work files on it when I gave it to him.
>>
>>It's an 1800+ AMD with a 40 GB Maxtor hard drive.
>
It might well come to it.

regards
Graham

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 13:51:07 GMT, byteryder <bytryder@telus.net>
wrote:

>Last night my kid called me at work saying he couldn't use internet
>explorer. He could get e-mail, play diablo II on-line etc. but got an
>error everytime he tried to use explorer. It said there was a missing
>.dll file even though a search showed the file to be present.
>
>I figured maybe the file had been corrupted somehow and suggested he
>re-install Win Me. He did this and still had the same problem. Today
>he called me at work again saying that windows wouldn't even boot up.
>I tried it when I got home and got an "error in explorer.exe, please
>reinstall windows" error.
>
>I tried reinstalling Windows ME but it says there is no boot record on
>my CD Rom Drive. I tried the Windows Me Start-up floppy... says
>there's no boot record. It says the Hard Drive boot record is ok...
>but can't figure out how to boot to DOS so I can try to configure
>stuff through DOS.
>
>Is there an F-Key or anyway to boot to dos in ME?
>
>I would prefer not to format this drive if I don't have to as I still
>had a few work files on it when I gave it to him.
>
>It's an 1800+ AMD with a 40 GB Maxtor hard drive.
>
>I can be reached at bytrydr@telus.net
>
>TIA
My son had this -- Here's what I did as near as I can remember--
Message was that the Registry was bad and stopped dead. Would not go
to Safe Mode or anything else--
I booted from the ME CD (you may need to change the boot sequence in
the BIOS)
Cancelled the install and this left me in DOS
Changed to C drive
Typed WIN at the prompt and ENTER
When it tried to start Windows it restored to an earlier set of system
files.
Then there was a missing file, a DLL - can't recall its name, but I
found it on the CD.

Good luck - reinstalling is a pain.

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 13:51:07 GMT, byteryder <bytryder@telus.net> wrote:

>Last night my kid called me at work saying he couldn't use internet
>explorer. He could get e-mail, play diablo II on-line etc. but got an
>error everytime he tried to use explorer. It said there was a missing
>.dll file even though a search showed the file to be present.

"Eventually", it would be good to determine how this situation came
about... possibly a BHO (browser helper object), an uninstalled
application, trojan/virus, or any number of potential issues. For the
time being, determine what that file is, it's function. By the filename
you can Google search it. If it's not associated with a program or
windows itself, then you might want to determine where, why this file is
being called and remove that reference to it. If it IS a required part of
windows or other application, you can likley find it on the 'net if you
don't have another machine available to restore this file, else there is a
DOS command to extract files from the window's CAB installation files... I
just don't remember the command at the moment, but again a Google search
will find it.

>
>I figured maybe the file had been corrupted somehow and suggested he
>re-install Win Me. He did this and still had the same problem. Today
>he called me at work again saying that windows wouldn't even boot up.
>I tried it when I got home and got an "error in explorer.exe, please
>reinstall windows" error.

If the system won't even make it to the desktop, enter the boot menu [F8]
right after the bios enumeration screen, then choose to make a bootlog.
If it will boot to the desktop before the error then boot into safemode
from the aforementioned menu for further troubleshooing measures.


>I tried reinstalling Windows ME but it says there is no boot record on
>my CD Rom Drive. I tried the Windows Me Start-up floppy... says
>there's no boot record. It says the Hard Drive boot record is ok...
>but can't figure out how to boot to DOS so I can try to configure
>stuff through DOS.

There's something wrong with that account. Check your bios, you may not
have the boot order set properly to check the CDROM and floppy drives...
nothing that happens within windows ME should affect whether the system
can or can't boot from a CDROM or floppy. Get that working, be able to
boot from both devices. It's almost certain you can accomplish that by
changing some bios settings.

>Is there an F-Key or anyway to boot to dos in ME?

F8 is boot menu. However, once you have the bios set properly you should
be able to boot from *any* DOS boot floppy.


>I would prefer not to format this drive if I don't have to as I still
>had a few work files on it when I gave it to him.
>
>It's an 1800+ AMD with a 40 GB Maxtor hard drive.
>
>I can be reached at bytrydr@telus.net

You might want to scan the system for viri and other malware.