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Yea - a clean install is always best!
Menno Hershberger wrote:
> ME is a disaster in the first place. If you've done all the Windows 98
> updates, then ME is going to try to revert back to an older version of
> Internet Explorer. And updated Media Player also raises havoc. I ran into
> a similar mess just trying to do a repair install of ME for a customer
> once. Part of the "fix" for this was to boot with a Win98 startup disk
> and then rename your Internet Explorer folder (INTERN~1) and the Windows
> Media Player folder. And it seems like there was some DLL file you have
> to delete too. I can't find the documentation on that right at the
> moment. Maybe someone else that's run into it will come up with it. I
> found it in the ME newsgroup, but that's been a long time ago and I'm
> sure that article has expired.
> Hopefully, you've backed up your data. If so, just format, install 98
> again and then immediately upgrade to ME (if you insist on ME) and THEN
> do your upgrades.
>
> "Bill in Co." <someone@earthlink.net> wrote in
> news:#xWMwi3LFHA.1156@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl:
>
>> This is a pretty cryptic description of your problem. What exactly
>> did you do?
>>
>> It kinda sounds like you tried to install ME over 98, as an upgrade.
>> If that's the case, I think you have (at least) a couple of options.
>>
>> 1) try to revert back to 98, IF you can get into Control Panel, etc -
>> but this may not bepossible, or even preferable
>>
>> 2) probably a better idea - reboot the system and try to reinstall
>> ME
>> again.
>>
>> At least that's my perspective. Some others may weigh in here with
>> some other ideas.
>>
>> madjack53 wrote:
>>> how do I recover 98 files when ME fails to finish and leaves
>>> everything in
>> a
>>> temp folder
>>
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