Windows ME safe mode?

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joro

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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... :confused:

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


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
 
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
 
WinME is a bloody nightmare.

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

This will put you on the road to recovery

:D

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.
 
I believe Win ME was Bill Gates operating system he designed with Satan-it bloody well seemed like it anyway :mad:
 
Oh no! Flashbacks of ME! :eek: :D

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.
 
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... :rolleyes:

Thanks fellas! :D
 
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...
 
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.
 
bgavin said:
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! :D
 
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.
 
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