From: "Ronnie T. Mungo, Boy Genius" 

It did the trick.

We now have a nice new DVD player in our lounge.

RTM, BG


"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3ddd5739$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I'll try that. We've been laughing ourselves silly that NO ONE here
> > remembers anything about WIn98.
>
> I worked on 5 PC's today, 2 NT4's, a 2 Win95's, and a Win98. 
>
> The scanreg trick is probably what you need...
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Ronnie T. Mungo, Boy Genius"  wrote
in message
> news:3ddd5446$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I'll try that. We've been laughing ourselves silly that NO ONE here
> > remembers anything about WIn98.
> >
> > It really surprised us that everyone either moved to Windows 2000, XP<
or
> > Linux on their machines at home long ago, and professionally, we've
never
> > had to support it.
> >
> > Also, I was mistaken about the laptop, My shortform on where it came
from
> > was wrong. Turned out the laptop is from one of our Army detective
(CID?)
> > guys that had it freeze on him. Don't want a pissed off MP! Anyway, we
> have
> > one copy of Win98 that came with the laptop, labeled "For
use with a New
> PC"
> > and the PC. Problem is, he'll lose software keys if we reinstall Win98.
> So,
> > we're trying to save a butt chewing for the guy. He's sweating bullets,
> and
> > promises to make it worth our while. Turns out he was trying to install
a
> > game for his 3 year old.
> >
> > I learned a long time ago... when a cop makes that kind of promise...
it's
> > ALWAYS worth the extra effort!
> >
> > RTM, BG
> >
> >
> > "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
> > news:3ddd32eb{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > The registry is in SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT (in \WINDOWS in the usual
> > > install).
> > > Try
> > >
> > > Madly hitting F8 during boot, then selecting commandline only by
number
> > >
> > > Then run
> > >
> > > SCANREG /restore
> > >
> > > and pick a successful boot from the last few days to restore.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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