Windows ME safe mode?

[joro]

OK...not my computer...my son's....
Windows ME.....

for the life of me I cannot find a way to run it in safe mode....
I mean...I can find it in 98...in 2000...in xp....but God only seems to know where it is in ME...

he has a shitload of malware, spyware, Adware...you name it...he's got it.....


I gotta find a way to run in safe mode so I can clean his machine...or re-install....which I can't find either.....

any Microsoft ME efficianados out there got some tech advice for joro?

Thanks fellas,
Joe

 

[zekthedeadcow]

local linux zealot to the rescue!

from PChell.com

Windows 98/Me

* Restart the computer.
* Just after the POST diagnostics and memory count, start pressing the F8 key
* On the Startup Menu, choose Safe Mode

or you may use the System Configuration Utility Method.

* While in Normal mode, Close all programs.
* Click Start, Run and type MSCONFIG in the box and click OK
* In the System Configuration Utility, on the General Tab, click the Advanced Button
* In the Advanced Troubleshooting Settings dialog box, check Enable Startup Menu. Click OK. Click OK again when the System Configuration Utility reappears.
* You will be prompted to restart the computer. Click Yes. The computer will restart in Safe mode.
* When you are finished with troubleshooting in Safe mode, open MSCONFIG again and uncheck "Enable Start-up Menu." under the Advanced Menu, then click OK and restart your computer

 

[bgavin]

WinME is a bloody nightmare.

Boot the Win rescue floppy.
Enter "FDisk" then "Format"

This will put you on the road to recovery



Please don't try this at home. Professional stunt driver on closed course.

WinME is a support nightmare. If you have problems with it, replace it with Win98SE unless the machine is new/big enough to support WinXP.

I've wasted so much time trying to support my clients' WinME installations, I will no longer touch WinME except to wipe it clean.

 

[sixways]

why don't you go to www.trendmicro.com and run their free housecall? It will get rid of all that shit.

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[Anfontan]

I believe Win ME was Bill Gates operating system he designed with Satan-it bloody well seemed like it anyway

 

[travelin travis]

Oh no! Flashbacks of ME!

I did manage to get my old ME machine stable at one point but after upgrading to XP, I can't imagine why I went thru all the trouble.

 

[joro]

well I have been struggling for a few days with this and I think I got it licked...
cracked the case...
cleaned and dusted ...what a mess...
installed a new CD writer (the old one was FUBAR)
Found safe mode...
installed and ran Ad-Aware....1862 critical problems...
installed and rean Spybot Search and destroy........986 entries deleted...
installed and ran Norton Anti Virus...............6 viruses found and deleted...
cleaned the registry..
de-fragged...

all seems well for now....

ME does SUCK big time though...

Thanks fellas!

 

[zekthedeadcow]

900+ entries... I know that feeling... I do some in home support and there is a family who's kids origionally thought spyware was a myth... a boogyman parents told to kids to keep them from looking at porn... the PC (XP Home) would then last about 18 hours before it wouldn't boot... after about $500 in service calls they don't have as many problems as they used to...

 

[bgavin]

FDisk and Format is a whole lot faster.

Reinstall the whole sorry mess, then GHOST it. When the kids trash the machine again, restore it from the GHOST image. Fast, painless, and a clean restore.

 

[joro]

FDisk and Format is a whole lot faster.

Reinstall the whole sorry mess, then GHOST it. When the kids trash the machine again, restore it from the GHOST image. Fast, painless, and a clean restore.

I am sure it is man...and thanks for the info but, I don't have a disk to use...otherwise i would have done exactly that....

appreciate it though man,....Thanks!

 

[bgavin]

If your hardware will support USB, consider a Venus external drive chassis and a standard IDE disk. I use mine constantly (own two), one for client work the other as an aux backup of my own system.

Search around for BART-PE and use that as a boot cd. It does USB automatically, and will let you do ghost images to the USB drive.