okay I have a 500mhz computer on Win Me. Okay here is what happened. Before my computer used to crash all the time..well computer & most of my programs such as Adobe golive, adobe photoshop..internet explorer..basically everything I use. Anyway I had hat Kernel32.dll probelm along with all these other things such as the Shell32.dll. Anyway so I copied down all the suggestions & handed them over to my sister. Anyway nothing seemed to work so we were thinking there might be something wronge with the hardware..basically c-drive. Anyway so we decided to do a clean sweep of the computer to start over..we formated both c & our slave D drive. So now we were about the reinstall windows again on a clean slate. My sister also reset the Bios since it was doing something funny (not detailed..sorry:() anyway now when we try to stick the boot disk in the computer so we can reinstall windows it keeps telling us that there are errors in the config.sys files..lines 22, 24, 26, & 28 I believe (I wrote this down but someone threw that piece of paper). Anyway so now we have this empty computer & can't install Windows. We make like 10 boot disks per computer. So anyway the ten we made don't work. Same error with the config.sys file. & also we were trying to see id the Micrsoft Me Original boot disk would work..unforunately that disk has been damaged 5 years ago due to a virsu being inside it & my computer auto deleting it. We called Miscrosoft to see if we could buy another copy but they told use we needed to just buy a whole new Win Me pack. Anyway if anyone could help please..If you need more details I can get my sister on this. I'm pretty comfortable with the computer but when it comes to all these config.sys & troubleshooting stuff I suck.

hello im haveing a bit of truble following this. but boot disks your refiring too are they the floppy disks? you can goto www.bootdisk.com and down load free boot disk program just install on a floppy. your windows cds cant get viruses. they can get scratched. this can be fixed if you know a place that sells used cds some of those have equipment to remove scratches. i just had this done to a xp pro cd. cost 5.00cn. you can going bios and reset defaults. to get to bios depending on computer mine i hold down f2 on start up some f10 some delete try these out and post back more info like computer type hard drives ram ect. and any other info that you left out or think might help have a nice day

it's not my windows CD that got the virus. It is the original MS boot disk that got the virus. I will head on over to bootdisk.com thank you. Computer type. Do you mean like what brand? We just baught a bare bone from a computer store & installed everything ourselves. This coputer has been running very well for the past few years just right now it's messing up. ANyway I have two hard drives..both my Maxtor one is a 40gb & the slave is 14gb. RAM is at 128. I will go try the boot disk & see what happens.

Okay I downloaded the bootdisk for Win ME at www.bootdisk.com & put it in the computer & started the computer. Anyway it does the regular stuff..telling you what hardware you have etc...but then after that table comes up that says like drive A:... Drive B:...it writes some other normal stuff but then stops & then a blinking line appears. This has happened also with the rest of my own boot disks. Some do this & others give me a config.sys error message. Any ideas? More info..I don't know if this has anything to do with my problem..but sometimes my computer won't turn on. LIke the black screen will come up & that's about it..or it beeps but nothing happens..or even without any boot disk in A drive it will do what I just explained above..tells you all the info like normal & then nothing..just a blinking line. Here are the error messages I got to begin with when I still has win Me on my system & some when reinstalling Win Me (when I could) Don't know if this will help..but I wrote them down: cmdninst has caused an error in KERNEL32.dll iexplore has caused an error in iexplore has caused an error in SHELL32.dll explorer has caused an error in MSHTML.dll Error occurred while setting up c:/windows/system/initpki.dll etrac32 caused error in extrac.exe Rundll32 caused an error in MSJAVA.DLL Error loading c: windows/syste,/msjava.dll A dynamic link library (DLL) initialiation routine failed helpctr caused error in MSXML.dll

Boot up with that boot disk again, when there`s an A\> with a blinking line, type C: press enter, then type- type config.sys | more The same way withall the spaces When you see your config.sys count down to 22 24 26 and 28. And write down what those lines say.

p.s. add an additional 128 of ram and you will be much happier with ME.This is of course when you figure out your problem.Sorry I cant be of any help,everyone has given any suggestion I would have.

Also which boot disk did you use to formatt drive(s) with?