no, the machine was given to him used, its a dell. i have dell instal
sp1
disc. i'll check my f8 options again, tried safe mode.
dont know of wwhat way you are saying to access restore. thru taskmgr?
resore icon does nothing.
im thinking of doing the partition, do i boot from xp1 disk?
and, they say that the key id# is in the bios. how do i access his key
id
so
i dont have to use mine which is still on my hubby's PC.??
:
Is the machine (purchased in July-08, according to your previous post)
still under warranty or service contract?
What are your F8 options at boot?
sammy wrote:
the pc looks like an xp start with upgrade to xp2/3,
i do not know how to recover, i cant run any programs tru task manager
and
have no idea on partitions or oobe states. maybe i can wipe it and
just
install my xp disk? how do i begin a new install, and wipe the whole
darn
thing? since no one has an xp2 disk around here.
:
Repost:
Is there an available Restore Point which predates the install of
IE8
(cf.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084)?
If there's no OEM disks, chances are there's a hidden Recovery
partition
that can be used to return the machine to OOBE state.
Personally, I don't think you're going to be able to fix this without
using
System Restore or returning the machine to OOBE (like-new) state,
Sammy.
sammy wrote:
winxp2 w/ sp3
unknown which was in first, owner says it has SP3 hwen he got it
july
last
year.
It has store bought McCaffe virus program.
I cannot open System Restore, when i do from task manager, it does
nothing.
Mcaffe was possibly on when i removed IE8, but i remember stoppong
its
scan
casue it was bogging us down.
Third party Firewall: if mcaffe has one, then yes. Then of course MS
has
thiers too. I cant get anything to run on the pc, well, an IE
window,
but
cannot connect to web because of this glitch. its a cricket mobile
modem
the
programs just wont run ..
has to be the ordinal code error.
:
[Crossposted to IE General newsgroup]
Please state the full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3) of the
machine
in
question.
If it's WinXP SP3, which was installed first, IE7 or SP3?
What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is
the
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than
Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)? Were any of these
applications running in the background when IE8 and/or SP3 and/or
IE7
was
installed and/or uninstalled?
Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this
machine
(e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought
it)?
Is there an available Restore Point which predates the install of
IE8
(cf.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084)?
If there's no OEM disks, chances are there's a hidden Recovery
partition
that can be used to return the machine to OOBE state.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
sammy wrote:
And this is on a friends PC. He complained of an issue with web,
IE8
wasnt
compatibable and he wanted to go back to 7. so, l look on
microsofts
site,
find an answer; and do an unstall through control panel. reboot:
No
desktop. not even thru task manager - new task-explorer, no way to
connect
to web via crickets modem, all i can do is seek files through
taskmgrs
'new
task.' Can i do a system restore? an where can i find it using
task
manager?
i cannot find the file to restore in there. and NO he dont have a
XP2
disk,
looks like hes on XP 3 now. Before i rebooted after removing IE8 i
installed
Mozilla Firefor browser. which was fine. all went bad when asked
to
reboot
after uninstall. HELP cause this guy is a real pain in the butt.
<paste>
...The error message at startup is:
The ordinal 421 could not be located in the D L L urlmon.dll
