Hey Dani,

Like your site!

Originally joined so I could properly say thanks to a poster (found the answer to an aggravation), next thing I knew I had ratchetjaw.

Cya 'round.
CWW

By now you're probably done with this but, hey, there's always the future, usually.

Before upgrading, switch the driver for your video card to plain vanilla, generic, no-name-brand VGA, 800x600. ...

FWIW, feigned, I concur.

The '0x..' numbers are Hexadecimal Notation for Memory addresses. The first number is the memory address of the program opcode being executed. That opcode is trying to read the value stored at...

You haven't by chance gotten a little delete-happy in Windows Explorer lately, have you?<g>

Does it restore to any other restore points? If it does, then that particular RP is...

Oh man, this's one of those Shell issues...

Double-Click My Computer.
Select Tools menu, Folder Options.
In Folder Options, select File Types & wait.
& wait
& wait.
Bag this, get something to...

When your system boots up, does the POST (Power-On Self-Test) say that it detects the CD drive? How many drives hard/CD/DVD, etc., do you have?

You may have to go into your BIOS & turn on IDE...

The error message with the reference to '..can't load Registry Hive...'(sic) usually means that one of the files that make up the Registry is corrupt. Either from being truncated (cut short), or one...

You don't say what flavor of Windows you're using, but I used to see that kinda weird stuff a lot in Win95. As I recall, it had something to do with the System Device drivers that were loading for...

inscissor,

Had to join the forum in order to give you big thanks!

Your tip about going into DOS to delete worked a treat (as them ferners say <g>.); it also works in XP Pro, which I'm running....