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Sadly I have not been able to get anywhere with this (and as you can see the problem has dragged on for a while).
Safe mod does not make defrag work. I have made a boot disk and although it seems to boot the computer inot DOS I cant seem to make any head way with the instructions below provided by Robert@fm.
""Boot into DOS mode. (This is possible even with Windows ME, by using the boot floppy you should by now have made for emergencies; on Windows 9x press [F8] immediately when the "Starting Windows" message appears.)
CD \WINDOWS (or whatever your Windows directory is called).
EDIT WIN.INI
Find the line SHELL=EXPLORER.EXE (I don't recall if that's exactly what it says; it'll mention Explorer, anyway. It will be near the start of the file.)
Replace EXPLORER with DEFRAG.
Reboot into Windows."""
Can you provide the idiots instructions as to what to type? This PC is running XP Home and although I once did exactly what was described above to replace the shell in windows 98 on another pc I cant seem to make it work here. Is it something to do with XP that i am not doing right?
Any help much appreciated,
Larry
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