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after installing mcafee office and fiinding out what a piece of **** it is-giving me blue screens and acting very unstable,also giving error on .vxd files i decided to take it of my system which wasnt easy,left all kinds of crap in my system files and tons of key codes i my register.

i have all that cleaned out really good with a reg editer now but after installing and uninstalling the software to get it to work it seemed to add c:\ to the black start up screen when it boots up five times in a row.

where can i edit this and take out all the c:\,all i need is one,im pretty sure because it wasnt like that before

i looked in my c:\windows\system.ini and boot up files and cant find it

anybody know

thanks in advance

Originally posted by remo:
after installing mcafee office and fiinding out what a piece of **** it is-giving me blue screens and acting very unstable,also giving error on .vxd files i decided to take it of my system which wasnt easy,left all kinds of crap in my system files and tons of key codes i my register.

i have all that cleaned out really good with a reg editer now but after installing and uninstalling the software to get it to work it seemed to add c:\ to the black start up screen when it boots up five times in a row.

where can i edit this and take out all the c:\,all i need is one,im pretty sure because it wasnt like that before

i looked in my c:\windows\system.ini and boot up files and cant find it

anybody know

thanks in advance

i could hardly believe no one has the answer to this one -it should be a easy one for some of you gurus out there

come on guys

c:\autoexec.bat mcafee progs like to change that. autoexec.nt if ur using NT / 2k system

edit that and add

"REM" without quotes followed by a space to the beginning of any line you don't want to run.


like this

C:\mcafee\bull\blah.exe BEFORE

REM C:\mcafee\bull\blah.exe AFTER

Originally posted by Amro:
c:\autoexec.bat mcafee progs like to change that. autoexec.nt if ur using NT / 2k system

edit that and add

"REM" without quotes followed by a space to the beginning of any line you don't want to run.


like this

C:\mcafee\bull\blah.exe BEFORE

REM C:\mcafee\bull\blah.exe AFTER

i clean mcafee off my system completely as i should of never installed it from what i hear

i cant find any evidence of mcafee remains any where,used regCleaner to do that but i still get all those c:\ in boot up

hers my autoexec.bat

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM

PATH

heres boot section of

windows\system.ini
[boot]
oemfonts.fon=vgaoem.fon
shell=Explorer.exe
system.drv=system.drv
drivers=mmsystem.dll power.drv
user.exe=user.exe
gdi.exe=gdi.exe
sound.drv=mmsound.drv
dibeng.drv=dibeng.dll
comm.drv=comm.drv
mouse.drv=mouse.drv
keyboard.drv=keyboard.drv
*DisplayFallback=0
fonts.fon=8514sys.fon
fixedfon.fon=8514fix.fon
386Grabber=vgafull.3gr
display.drv=pnpdrvr.drv
scrnsave.exe=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SPACE.SCR

my os is win98se


i dont see anything do you

[ 04-02-2001: Message edited by: remo ]

Originally posted by Norm:
Ok, I just renamed the c:\Prograam Files\Creative dir to something else and rebooted, all I got was, "bad file" error and rebooted ok too. It is something in that dir being called to execute during bootup, I'm getting closer.
One we get this figured out I know what causes the c:/> to be repeated on bootup, it's a few extra empty lines at the bottom of our autoexec.bat file that can be edited out, once this Dos sound driver it taken care of

hey norm
sounds like your getting close to solution,let me know when you have it tackeled-sure want to get rid of those extra c:>'s
thanks

Originally posted by Norm:
remo...

I tried everything I could think of to fix this problem through hacking around. I know what it is, but don't know how to find the right reg key to fix it.
I fixed it by ununstlling all my Creative software, deleting my auto exec.bat file, deleting the c:\Program Files\Creative dir (still there after uninstall too), installing System Mechanic, and did the registry clean feature. Then made a new autoexec.bat file in the root of c:
One thing to remember for future....once you go into msconfig and edit the autoexec.bat file there, windows makes a copy under some other name and keeps replacing it whether we like it or not. I couldn,t find it anywhere and just got so frustrated I did the reg clean from System Mechanic and let it handle it. You probably don't need the SB Dos drivers anyway. Good Luck

norm
i have a friend who is a computer wiz which he works for compaq computer in houston here.im going to talk to him in the next couple of days,and im sure he can help us out with this problem.i will let you know

talk to ya soon