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Smizack
11-18-01, 07:00 PM
Ok,
I've got Win XP Pro installed over the top of WIn ME.
For about 2 months now it has worked fine, and this weekend it started closing me out of games and IE and so on.
Can I delete the WIn ME folder without screwing anything up?
I do realize I need a clean install of XP alone, but it's gonna take me a while to back up everything, and I need a work around.
In Max Payne, It kicks me out to the desktop.
In Black & White, it freezes the screen, and gives an error from a File in the WIn ME Temp dir. I've deleted it, but it just re-creates it.
In I.E., it will either lock up IE or reboot.
Many thanks.
What kinda comp are you on?
I suggest you spend the weekends backing up and doing a clean install ASAP.
Smizack
11-18-01, 09:11 PM
It's a PII 333, 20G Maxtor, 256Megs ram.
That's what I'm thinking... Updated and ran a virus scan. and reinstalled the games, but they are doing the same thing.
It's gonna suck trying to back up 10+ gigs.:(
Smizack
11-19-01, 09:25 AM
Yeah, but I'm still gonna have to shop up a lot of it...
How smooth do you run Win Xp?
IF you don't run it that smooth do a clean install of Win2K you seem to be only 100mhz from the minimum requirements :/
I would recommend more .
Probably a double of it.
I don't know if this still works in ME but when not try the DELTREE command, that would leave everything besides OS.
Softwebdev
11-19-01, 04:46 PM
Originally posted by Smizack
Ok,
I've got Win XP Pro installed over the top of WIn ME.
For about 2 months now it has worked fine, and this weekend it started closing me out of games and IE and so on.
Can I delete the WIn ME folder without screwing anything up?
I do realize I need a clean install of XP alone, but it's gonna take me a while to back up everything, and I need a work around.
In Max Payne, It kicks me out to the desktop.
In Black & White, it freezes the screen, and gives an error from a File in the WIn ME Temp dir. I've deleted it, but it just re-creates it.
In I.E., it will either lock up IE or reboot.
Many thanks.
IF YOU WANT YOUR GAMES TO RUN PROPERLY, DON'T DELETE WIN98
I think I know the problem..
You installed those games from Win ME?
Some core files were probably located in the Win ME system files and they were deleted.
So the games won't run properly or something..
Reinstall using Win XP.
Smizack
11-20-01, 10:26 AM
Originally posted by Yodums
I think I know the problem..
You installed those games from Win ME?
Some core files were probably located in the Win ME system files and they were deleted.
So the games won't run properly or something..
Reinstall using Win XP.
Kind of...
When I installed the games, I was running XP but it installed the directory to ME.
Another p***ed person at Win ME.:mad:
Anyway, I went home yesterday, and when I clicked on anything it rebooted. Get online, open I.E. and it reboots.
So I got mad formatted and realized I don't have a boot disk for it!:eek:
So I had to get on another system and download a boot disk. But other than my being too hastey at firt, everything is back to normal now...
As long as you were still in FAT 32 the deltree command mentioned above works well. There is no deltree in XP but if your file system is not NTFS it will still work.
When I want a "clean" install I delete all the Windows files and reinstall Windows. Note well that some Windows files are not in the Windows directory and must be deleted for a truly clean install.
In XP you need to delete:
\_RESTORE\
\Documents and Settings\
\Documents and Settings.000\
\System Volume Information\
\Windows\
And to be safe delete everything in the root directory.
When I installed XP I did this after making sure I had access to the CD from the command prompt. It worked well.
Smizack
11-20-01, 04:34 PM
Kewl, I'll keep that in mind.
I just fdisked and formatted though.
But does it not seem wierd that WinME kept getting errors when it wasn't really in use? From my experiance that seems normal with ME. I had it for 6-8 months and reinstalled about 7 times, and was just about to go to Win2k when XP came out.
What operating system you on now?
Tabasco
11-20-01, 05:49 PM
I know this wont help you with all that to back up but, when I upgraded mine to XPpro I donr it from an established stable ME,
But this was not happy, so because mine is an upgrade version,
unconditional format me installed bare then xp and all is sweet, no probs on any games..................yet.
I would never recommend a upgrade.. I just hate it.. I mean it bugs me my previous Windows files are there ..! and other stuff..
Smizack
11-21-01, 09:06 AM
Originally posted by Yodums
What operating system you on now?
XP Pro. I had it before, but it was installed on top of WinME.
Smizack
11-21-01, 09:09 AM
Originally posted by Tabasco
I know this wont help you with all that to back up but, when I upgraded mine to XPpro I donr it from an established stable ME,
But this was not happy, so because mine is an upgrade version,
unconditional format me installed bare then xp and all is sweet, no probs on any games..................yet.
Well, ME was as stable as it gets at the time I suppose. I had reinstalled it about 2 weeks before I got XP. and about 2 months later I was getting errors. So I guess that's about right for WinME. XP itself has never given me a problem yet, and after a clean install of XP everything is running good.
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