I have read about the boot disk method of exposing the DOS prompt in Windows ME. I am totally confused as to how this works. Can one or many of you fine folks out there please tell me, step by step, how to do this? Please treat me like a total idiot, I won't take it personally! I have run DOS commands for the purposes of deleting built up index.dat files and others in Windows 98. Still, pretend that you are talking with a house plant when you describe the method. What is a boot disk? Thanks, you folks are the best. Keep your stick on the ice. LEE

Go to- Start/Settings/Control Panel/ Add-Remove/Start Up Disk you will need a blank formatted floppy. After creating the boot disk, restart your PC with the bootdisk in the floppy drive. you will be presented with 4 options, choose one of them wich applies to what you want to do. For a bootdisk with more options, download the Windows ME bootdisk image and run it to make the ultimate boot disk below. Ultimate Boot Disk

hello you can allso use your windows 98 exmergency boot disk to do this and most dos comands from 98 will work. have a nice day

Why do you need a DOS mode? I've found that ME's virtual DOS is a champ for running things like old DOS games. 95/98's doesn't hold a candle to it! I always had to shut down to DOS mode for good performance w/ those; but not required in ME! Somewhere there's a patch for ME that will let you boot into a DOS prompt from the boot menu you get by holding down on startup, but I forget where it is.

you can do these in dos A:\>scanreg A:\>scanreg /restore A:\>scanreg /fix A:\>scandisk c: [followed by surface scan] A:\>scandisk d: [followed by surface scan]

You can also do a system restore from DOS ____________________________________ How to Start the System Restore Tool From a Command Prompt (Q279736) ---------------------- The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition ---------------------- SUMMARY Windows Millennium Edition (Me) includes the System Restore tool, however, you cannot start the System Restore tool from a command prompt. Because of this, it may be useful to start the System Restore tool when you are unable to start your Windows Me-based computer normally or in Safe mode. This article describes how to start the System Restore tool when you are unable to start your Windows Me-based computer normally or in Safe mode. MORE INFORMATION To start the System Restore tool when you are unable to start your Windows Me-based computer normally or in Safe mode, you can temporarily change the Windows shell from Explorer.exe to Progman.exe: Start your computer by using the Windows Me Startup disk. At the Startup menu, choose Minimum Boot . At the command prompt, type edit c:\windows\system.ini , and then press ENTER. Edit the shell= line so that it looks like this: shell=progman.exe Press ALT+F, and then press S to save the changes to the System.ini file. Press ALT+F, and then press X. Remove your Windows Me Startup disk, and then restart your computer. When your computer restarts, Program Manager should start. If Program Manager does not start, repeat steps 1-7, being careful to follow these steps exactly, and then continue to the next step. On the File menu, click Run , type msconfig in the Command Line box, and then press ENTER. Click Launch System Restore to begin restoring your computer to a previous, functional state. NOTE : After you configure your computer to start Program Manager, you can start the System Restore tool by typing c:\windows\system\restore\rstrui.exe at a command prompt, and then pressing ENTER. For additional information about the System Restore tool, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q267951 Description of the System Restore Utility in Windows Me

How do i delete all temp files using windows me including index files for cookies,history, so they are totally off my computer and also emails