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Thanks linney. I was about to dump a couple of MS updates (THIS UPDATE CANNOT BE DELETED!!!GRRR>TAKE THAT) that are screwing my system when I discovered that I had no restore point earlier than the beginning of this month. Guess I must have turned System Restore off and back on in a fit of...

Whenever this has happened to a system I've been working on, I've found that a recent Win update has added a user, NETAPI or something like that (sorry to be vague - just got back after a long nite out.) Back when the M$ net framework (or whatever it's called) was in its earliest form, 1.0 or...

Anyone know if it's possible to recover deleted System Restore Points? Are these things just un-flagged like other deleted files or are they permanently lost? If they are recoverable, what are they called? Cheers :-)

Problem solved. Removed Service Pack 2. Sheesh........ Thanks all :-)

Thanks Roger. Tried Diagnostic Startup and no improvement. Unfortunately System Restore was OFF so no recovery available there.

Interesting, SirBlack. How did you "hide one of the choices"?

If I understand you correctly, your 'My Network Places' folder shows a huge collection of LAN links. I have an idea that this folder shows ALL previous connections, so it tends to be a mess. This might be why you have trouble keeping it tidy. What I did was to create a new desktop folder named...

The machine is an IBM Netvista running XP Home, about 4 years old. Up until a week ago it was running fine. Now, it'll only boot OK into Safe Mode. In regular mode it freezes right after the splash screen shows. The blue color in the progress bar begins to scroll then it locks up. I've...

Folks, thanks for your suggestions. Elmurado - I don't think an overinstall is going to fix this problem; I'll probably just screw up some of the users's files. I mean - Windows works 100% once it runs. It just won't boot. Re the Starman post about boot sectors, I'm afraid it left me...

A customer's hard drive has (XPHome-SP2) has developed boot problems, and now sits with a black screen and a blinking cursor. Windows WILL run with aid of a boot floppy, (made with an excellent little prog called FIXNTLDR.EXE from this site: h**p://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm)...

Uh..looks like I could have put my query better. What I meant was, 'without reinstalling Windows'.

Anyone know a good method of purging an XP pc of a user, like when a machine is sold and the new user wants all traces of the old user removed? I thought I had a reasonably good method, which was to create a new user account, remove the default files from it's folder in Documents and Settings...

I've worded that title badly. I don't mean 'How do I create a new user with admin privileges?' That's a fairly straightforward task in XP via User Accounts in Control Panel. What I'm referring to is another, more powerful 'Administrator account' - the type that's only seen in Safe Mode, on an...

Enkrypted and Edfair - Thanks for your responses. The logo files open normally in Paint, so they don't appear to be faulty. And the W98SE installation is almost new, so there shouldn't be any file damage. In fact, it did the same thing on the previous install, so there seems to be a common...

At shutdown, when the screen should be showing logow.sys, or 'Windows is now shutting down', the display becomes garbled, ie it turns into a mass of small, vertical blue and white stripes. If I substitute the logos.sys, ' It's safe to shutdown etc', by renaming it from logos to logow, the...

Hans, re your folder preference, I can't help except to sympathise - I've been trying to get Windows98 to remember that I only want to see folders in 'List' mode, ever since I installed the thing nearly two years ago. Nothing I've tried has worked and no-one has come up with a fix, either. It's...

Craig, looks like I need a little more advice, if you wouldn't mind. Couple of things changed since my last post -firstly, I've been experiencing odd freezes and crashes and wondered if I really did have a bug somewhere. When I thought about it, I realised I had Norton 2001 set to check programs...

Ok, that makes sense. As I said, I'll take your advice and let the system update itself. Cheers and thanks once again.

Just one further point about the foregoing thread - if one were to restore an earlier boot record, is it likely to cause a system crash? I'm not intending to do it, I hasten to add, it's just that this was my experience a couple of years back. I chose the restore option, then ended up having to...

I entered the original post several days back. The replies from Alt255 have been so helpful that I'm pasting the entire thread here in case the information might assist someone else, or perhaps prompt further comment. porty, New Zealand...