Ad-Aware hosed me!!

[Breeze1]

I downloaded and ran Ad-Aware last night. It seemed to delete a lot of things. Afterward I attempted to reboot.

I get a plain blue background and the few basic icons (my computer, mydocuments, IE, trash, my network)

The Start button doesn't work.

My systray is there. I can use InCD to format a R-W successfullly.

I can't view files because my (new) security settings don't allow ActiveX. I tried dragging/dropping entire directories onto my RW, but nothing happens.

Since startup

I tried to restore from my bootable CD - it doesn't work. I get a series of error messages, then a success statement. No success, however.

Anyone have any ideas?

At the extreme, would a) buying a new hard drive, b) running the restore cd work?

I have an emachine 600is (i think)
Windows ME

 

[SPYDERIX]

You said you tried to restore from a bottable cd. Di you restore in DOS mode. If not, then do the following:

Do you have a start-up disk?

If not, go to control panels|add/remove programs|click start disk tab|insert floppy disk|click create disk.

Once that has finished, keep the disk in the drive|re-start computer. then choose a minimal boot (option-4), then at the dos prompt type: scanreg /restore (don't forget the space between scanreg and /.

Then choose a cab file that goes 2 days back and restore the computer. Remove disk and re-start computer.

or try this:

Becuase you can't access your START menu, you may be wondering how to access the windows based system restore.
If you can, go to: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\RESTORE\RSTRUI.EXE, that is where the System Restore shortcut leads to found under Sytem Tools in Accessories in START MENU.


Nate
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!"

 

[Breeze1]

Thanks, but no dice.

I can't create a startup disk from control panel because I can no longer get to control panel.

I can get to DOS via my boot CD.

scanreg /restore gives me the 'bad command' message. Do I need to navigate somewhere before trying this?

I navigate to RSTRUI.exe, but I can only run that in windows32 mode, not in DOS.

Next step to find someone on ME and make a startup disk?

 

[smitee]

Breeze1

re: Nate's post

After you boot with Emergency Startup Disk (boot disk) then change to C: drive. Scanreg.exe will be available from the
C:\Windows\Command directory...(folder)

If you don't CD to this directory you will get BCFN error. (bad command or filename) smitee

 

[Breeze1]

Got it. Thanks!!!!!