Guest SSJ04 Mewtwo Posted December 7, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Re: A question on going from ME to XP Mike M <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote: Not in this thread, that information could perhaps have led me to the cause of your problems somewhat quicker than I did. You might also want to try and establish who deleted all the INF files and why since I am pretty confident that nothing from Cox would have done so. The reason I ask is that unless you know who and why there is a pretty good chance the same might happen again. I apologize for not mentioning that. The rest of my family wanted to see if would fix this box by going to XP. In my hast I failed to mention it, so once again I apologize. If this does happen again I'll know where to find those .inf files. Hm, come to think of it I'd stupidly installed Norton 2001 way...,way back. Fortunately I came to my senses and ditched for AVG.
Guest Mike M Posted December 7, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Re: A question on going from ME to XP Thanks, > Hm, come to think of it I'd stupidly installed Norton 2001 way...,way > back. Fortunately I came to my senses and ditched for AVG. I think that may have been when you lost or deleted the INF files. Norton has/had a nasty bug that created very large numbers of OEM*.INF files of length zero bytes in the Windows\Inf folder which caused any application or driver using an INF file to install to lock up. It's possible that you experienced this problem and in error not only removed the zero byte OEM*.INF files but perhaps also a number that form part of the Win Me operating system. If you decide to move to XP I hope that all goes well. I've been using XP as my main system since before it was publicly launched in 2001 and have found it to be very stable and reliable, especially so since SP2 was released in 2004. -- Mike Maltby mike.maltby@gmail.com SSJ04 Mewtwo <ssj04mewtwo@yahoo.com> wrote: > I apologize for not mentioning that. The rest of my family wanted to > see if would fix this box by going to XP. In my hast I failed to > mention it, so once again I apologize. If this does happen again > I'll know where to find those .inf files. > > Hm, come to think of it I'd stupidly installed Norton 2001 way...,way > back. Fortunately I came to my senses and ditched for AVG.
Guest webster72n Posted December 7, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Re: A question on going from ME to XP "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message news:eEtYTMNOIHA.5524@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Thanks, > > > Hm, come to think of it I'd stupidly installed Norton 2001 way...,way > > back. Fortunately I came to my senses and ditched for AVG. > > I think that may have been when you lost or deleted the INF files. Norton > has/had a nasty bug that created very large numbers of OEM*.INF files of > length zero bytes in the Windows\Inf folder which caused any application > or driver using an INF file to install to lock up. It's possible that you > experienced this problem and in error not only removed the zero byte > OEM*.INF files but perhaps also a number that form part of the Win Me > operating system. > > If you decide to move to XP I hope that all goes well. I've been using XP that's XP Pro, I presume? <H>. > as my main system since before it was publicly launched in 2001 and have > found it to be very stable and reliable, especially so since SP2 was > released in 2004. > -- > Mike Maltby > mike.maltby@gmail.com > > > SSJ04 Mewtwo <ssj04mewtwo@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I apologize for not mentioning that. The rest of my family wanted to > > see if would fix this box by going to XP. In my hast I failed to > > mention it, so once again I apologize. If this does happen again > > I'll know where to find those .inf files. > > > > Hm, come to think of it I'd stupidly installed Norton 2001 way...,way > > back. Fortunately I came to my senses and ditched for AVG. >
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