XP oops!

[Guest]

I was cleaning up my hard drive, and deleted some old programs that I don't
use anymore. Unfortunately, I also must've deleted some necessary files along
with them, because now I can't open Windows Media Player, and system restore
opens as a blank shell. Also, when I'm using IE, I can't open my email, but
it works fine in Firefox. Is ther a way to figure out what files (dll's
maybe?) that I've deleted? I've tried re-installing Windows, but I get the
message that the copy of Windows on my machine is newer than the Windows on
my CD.

 

[Rock]

I was cleaning up my hard drive, and deleted some old programs that I don't
use anymore. Unfortunately, I also must've deleted some necessary files along
with them, because now I can't open Windows Media Player, and system restore
opens as a blank shell. Also, when I'm using IE, I can't open my email, but
it works fine in Firefox. Is ther a way to figure out what files (dll's
maybe?) that I've deleted? I've tried re-installing Windows, but I get the
message that the copy of Windows on my machine is newer than the Windows on
my CD.

Try a system restore to a date just before you messed with things.
Start | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools | System Restore.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

For the System Restore issue (blank frame), these commands should fix the
problem:

From Start-Run, type:

regsvr32 jscript
regsvr32 vbscript
regsvr32 /i mshtml

 

[Rock]

I was cleaning up my hard drive, and deleted some old programs that I don't
use anymore. Unfortunately, I also must've deleted some necessary files along
with them, because now I can't open Windows Media Player, and system restore
opens as a blank shell. Also, when I'm using IE, I can't open my email, but
it works fine in Firefox. Is ther a way to figure out what files (dll's
maybe?) that I've deleted? I've tried re-installing Windows, but I get the
message that the copy of Windows on my machine is newer than the Windows on
my CD.

Arghh...sorry I missed the part about system restore being blank.
Disregard my post.

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much! This not only cured my System restore issues, it brought
back WMP. Once again, thank you!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome