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MM, you rock!
I'm back in action with Win Me in normal mode & fixed the video graphics as you instructed below. whew! Now, for my Microsoft Intellimouse, I checked the sys.ini section in the boot folder and there is no reference there at all for the mouse.drv=Microsoft The only items listed are 2 unchecked boxes for *Displayfallback=0 I'm afraid to do anything more with system restore. However i just created a manual restore point for today. YAY! "Mike M" wrote: luvbuffalo wrote: I was so concerned after you told me I have may have trashed my system for using a nine-month old registry that I restored back to a registry from Sept 26. At that date I was only having the Zone Alarm VxD dynamic link problem but at least the registry was current. Good. In all honesty I should have suggested this myself rather than leaving you to work out that this was a reasonable option. Ahhhh! Clearing I’m misunderstanding what normal mode is. I was thinking that normal mode would mean not “safe mode� Normal Mode means booting into Win Me directly on switching on and loading all the various drivers, etc. that are required to run your system. Safe Mode means booting with a very restricted set of drivers and is usually done by tapping the F8 key as Win Me starts up and then selecting Safe Mode from the menu that is presented. and that I would get back the blue standard background and the 800x 600 pixels used for my screen area. In normal mode the resolution and colour of your desktop are dependent on your graphics card and its drivers and your monitor and how you have configured them. In safe mode minimal graphics drivers are installed with low resolution and colour depth - just sufficient for you to be able to read the screen whilst carrying out maintenance. But also, that having “normal startup� selected in the system configuration utility [with all items checked] would get the system to load installed drivers & configuration details that existed when the system was built. [to hopefully correct my display and mouse (not a USB mouse) problems] If I want to be able to use the mouse, I have to change system configuration utility to selective startup and deselect system.ini but other all other options can be selected [win.ini, load static VxD etc.] Good. So you have now localised where the cause of your mouse problem appears to lie. The contents of system.ini. By default the entries relating to your mouse in system.ini should be something like [boot.description] .... mouse.drv=Microsoft Mouse [See note a)] .... [386Enh] .... mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd .... Note a) Text after = sign may differ depending on what if any mouse software you may have installed. For example a system here running Win Me with Microsoft Intellipoint installed reads mouse.drv=Microsoft IntelliPoint No doubt installing Logitech mouse drivers would make a reference here to Logitech. So now I power on with the selective startup with win.ini and load statice VXD selected and the screen does not say safe mode in the corners [although it gives the same appearance as it did when I did boot in safe mode]. So it looks like the system is operating in normal mode but I might only need to reinstall the video drivers. Again good. Before you do that you might want to try the following. Boot to Safe Mode, open the Device Manager (Control Panel | System | Device Manager) and delete the entry for your video card in the Display Adapters section. Now boot back into Normal Mode and Win Me should redetect your graphics card and reinstall your driver. This may or may not work depending on the cause of the problem but if it does you won't need to download and install a new set of Win Me drivers from the manufacturer's web site. It is quite normal to have Selective startup checked with "Load startup group items" checked but greyed. This simply indicates that the user has an unchecked entry in MSConfig | Startup however the system still boots in Normal Mode but just doesn't load the unchecked entry. Thanks for the info, I wondered about this! I can't help but wonder if the lack of backed up copies of the registry predating your problem (there will however only ever be 5 copies at any one time) is due to the ScanRegistry (scanregw) entry having been unchecked in MSConfig | Startup. Your patience & knowledge has really been appreciated It seems to me that your "To Do" agenda now should be: a) Resolve your video display problems, hopefully this will be fixed by reinstalling your current drivers but if not by downloading and installing a new set. b) Resolve your mouse problems by checking system.ini for errors. c) Reinstalling your antispyware/antivirus application d) Reinstalling your firewall But before c and d I would suggest checking out that system restore is functioning correctly. Please post back after you have tried to fix a), your display problems, and we can try and sort out the system.ini problem and then check out system restore. Cheers, -- Mike Maltby |
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