Jeff,
ME does have restore capabilities like XP. In fact, the feature in XP
is a carryover from ME. I had the opportunity to have lunch with a MS
trainer a while back during a TS2 seminar and he was telling me that what
they tried to do with XP was to take Win 2000 (XP is built on the Win 2K
kernel) and add the best features from all the other OS's out there. The
only redeeming feature ME had was the system restore point. He also told me
that ME was the worst OS Microsoft had put out to date :)
Now don't everybody start sending me hate mail over this remark. I'm
just relaying what he (A Microsoft Trainer!) had to say about it, not
passing judgment on the validity of the statement.(even though I agree for
the most part after a couple of years having to support it for clients
o) )
As for scanning with Norton AV, yes you can do this provided you boot
from a Norton AV boot disk as McAfee will interfere if you try to do it from
Windows. However, I would try to boot into safe mode first and if that
works, either you have a faulty driver or resource conflict, or a program
loading at startup is hanging. If you can't boot to safe mode, try booting
to a floppy. If this won't work, then it sounds real bad :(
An easy way to find if an app is hanging on you is go to the start
button and click run and type MSCONFIG and go to the last tab which will be
startup and uncheck anything that doesn't appear necessary or have a windows
or windows/system path statement. Then it's a matter of elimination finding
the problem. (The beauty of this utility is if you stop a required program
from loading, all you have to do to fix it is go back to the startup tab and
re-check the corresponding block.)
If it's not a hanging app then try disabling (from safe mode again)
hardware one by one starting with the least necessary pieces first like the
sound card, modem, network card, and so on.
If you need any further help on this one, feel free to contact me off list.
Best of luck to you.
Stephen Todd
Blue Angel Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Dougherty"
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:49 AM
Subject: PCWorks: Windows Millenium question....
> Hello,
> I have a friend running WIN ME, AOL 6.0 and McAfee vir*s scan.
> McAfee has not been updated for at least three months.
> She can not boot into windows. The computer locks up at the ME splash
screen, I
> guess it is.
> I'm not at all familiar with ME, but would like to help her.
> I've instructed her to try booting from McAfee disk to see if it will scan
for
> vir*Ses.
> Does ME have any type of restore (Like XP) or reg restore (like 98)?
> If this sounds like a v*rus, I can take my Norton disk and try scanning
with that
> when I go over.
> Thank you.
>> FAX 717-564-4952
> Jeff Dougherty
> Intrepid Video TV/VCR repair
> 263 S Front ST
> Steelton PA 17113
> 717-909-8844
> VCR tips, electronics info & general interest.
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