Good for you. On Oct 23, 6:34 am, RebelRed <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, thanks for all your help and ideas guys. I've been busier > than ....well pretty busy so I didn't get back to you sooner but at > the next class period the students had already re-installed Windows to > fix their problem. And, since this is the last time I am teaching XP, > because I will be switching to Windows 7 next semester, I won't be > dealing with that problem anymore....hopefully. > > Thanks again.......Red. > > On Oct 7, 7:21 am, RebelRed <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well, that is another thing to consider...maybe, but worth > > checking out. The disks have not been mirrored yet. They are all from > > the MSDNAA ELMs sight which is basically a Microsoft/Education > > partnership to supply free software for educational puposes. Each disk > > was obtained from this site. They are still the original disks from > > about 5 years ago. It would seem wierd that 8 out of 13 would all go > > bad this one semester, but anything is possible, so I'll see if I can > > rule that out. > > > However, Anvesh does have a good idea, because I tried the > > registry on 7 of the 8 machines. The 8th machine I was not able to get > > to the registry because not only could I not get to the run command, I > > also could not get the "new task (run)" option to come up on Task > > Manager. So now if I may be able to try that solution and see what > > happens also. > > > Thanks guys, I knew you could come up with some more > > ideas...Think Tanks are a good thing. I'll let you know what happens, > > the next class is Thursday evening, so you'll probably hear from me on > > Friday, or Monday. > > > C ya......Red. > > > On Oct 6, 10:12 pm, Jeada <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > He already tried using the registry. Are the windows cds mirrored > > > copies or all retail singles? The os disks could be damaged through > > > the years from scratches and what-not. My teacher encountered a > > > similar problem which affected several computers. We used the same os > > > disk continously and made mirrored copies of it. The disk itself could > > > be the problem leaving corrupted files from its condition.- Hide quoted > > > text - > > > - Show quoted text -
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