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That gibberish means it's corrupted. If you can run scandisk then do so. If you can't, boot to safe mode and try running scandisk. You might try runing scanreg /restore from the RUN line and see if you can restore another registry. If you restore one that has a good system.ini then you should be OK. Otherwise use the system.ini in my post and edit into it the differences in what you posted in #2, such as your 'display drv' line. If you're using notepad then save it as c:\windows\system.ini. When it asks if you want to replace your existing system.ini answer 'yes'.

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There could be a virus that's doing that but try editing a good version using mine see if it stays that way.

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Standard or the other scan? --going into safemode and using standard for now-- be back in like 30 min or whenever it's done/I check on it [it usually takes quite a while...infact it seems to take longer everyt ime [it restarts on itself more and more every time it gets ran...is it supposed to do that? =/]

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Try doing a Thorough--surface scan. Given the sudden addition of the gibberish the most likely causes are either bad spots on the hard drive or a virus. The restarts should occur less often in safe mode since less stuff is loaded. Then assemble a good system.ini using mine and any additional lines yours has. See if it works and stays non-corrupted. It's late here and I'll check back tomorrow.

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This is what I use for my new System.ini then?--Also can I take out the extra drivers thing and also at the end of [boot] it has a drivers thing [I went through mine and looked in yours and added what mine had that yours didn't...not sure if that's what you were getting at when you told me to fix the stuff and stuff] [drivers] wave=mmsystem.dll midi=mmsystem.dll [drivers] midi=mmsystem.dll [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=vgasys.fon fixedfon.fon=vgafix.fon 386Grabber=vgafull.3gr display.drv=pnpdrvr.drv oemfonts.fon=vgaoem.fon drivers=mmsystem.dll [keyboard] keyboard.dll= oemansi.bin= subtype= type=4 [boot.description] system.drv=Standard PC keyboard.typ=Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard mouse.drv=Standard mouse aspect=100,96,96 display.drv=NVIDIA Vanta (HP) mouse.drv=Standard mouse [386Enh] ebios=*ebios woafont=dosapp.fon mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd device=*dynapage device=*vcd device=*vpd device=*int13 device=*enable keyboard=*vkd display=*vdd,*vflatd ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 PagingDrive=D: *name*=C:\WINDOWS\DEANN000.PWL EMMExclude=C000-CFFF [drivers32] msacm.lhacm=lhacm.acm VIDC.VDOM=vdowave.drv msacm.msaudio1=msaud32.acm msacm.sl_anet=sl_anet.acm MSACM.imaadpcm=imaadp32.acm MSACM.msadpcm=msadp32.acm MSACM.msgsm610=msgsm32.acm MSACM.msg711=msg711.acm MSACM.trspch=tssoft32.acm vidc.CVID=iccvid.dll VIDC.IV31=ir32_32.dll VIDC.IV32=ir32_32.dll vidc.MSVC=msvidc32.dll VIDC.MRLE=msrle32.dll msacm.msg723=msg723.acm vidc.M263=msh263.drv vidc.M261=msh261.drv VIDC.IV50=ir50_32.dll msacm.iac2=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IAC25_32.AX msacm.l3acm=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\L3CODECA.ACM VIDC.YVU9=ATIYVU9.DLL [NonWindowsApp] TTInitialSizes=4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 20 22 [power.drv] [drivers] wavemapper=*.drv MSACM.imaadpcm=*.acm MSACM.msadpcm=*.acm VIDC.YVU9=IYVU9.DLL VPM=ATIVM6XX.DLL wave=mmsystem.dll midi=mmsystem.dll [iccvid.drv] [mciseq.drv] [mci] cdaudio=mcicda.drv sequencer=mciseq.drv waveaudio=mciwave.drv avivideo=mciavi.drv videodisc=mcipionr.drv vcr=mcivisca.drv MPEGVideo=mciqtz.drv MPEGVideo2=mciqtz.drv [vcache] [Password Lists] default=C:\WINDOWS\DEFAULT.PWL *name*=C:\WINDOWS\DEANN002.PWL [TTFontDimenCache] 0 4=2 4 0 5=3 5 0 6=4 6 0 7=4 7 0 8=5 8 0 9=5 9 0 10=6 10 0 11=7 11 0 12=7 12 0 13=8 13 0 14=8 14 0 15=9 15 0 16=10 16 0 18=11 18 0 20=12 20 0 22=13 22

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The 2 [drivers] sections you have at the beginning are unnecessary. You can remove those. The one later on already contains the necessary lines. You could get some error messages using mine if it added some driver lines that your PC doesn't use. You can probably edit out those lines later on. There's another option if editing it becomes too cumbersome. You can start over with a system.ini containing only the basic entries: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q14... That's for 98. I don't know if they have one for ME. ME will be pretty much the same but I don't know if it's exactly the same. Another option (that maybe I should have mentioned earlier) is to see if you have a backup copy of system.ini. Sometimes when you add software or drivers that require changes in system.ini, the installation will rename the existing system.ini to something else. Do a 'find files or folders' search in the windows folder. Uncheck 'include subfolders' as you only need to look in the main windows folder. Search for system.*. You'll get system.dat (part of the registry), system.cb and system.ini. Any other listings might be a backup. It'll be 2 or 3K in size. Its file extension could be just about anything. I think they're sometimes named 'system.old' or 'system.001'. If anything like that shows up you can right click on it and choose 'open' to take a look at it. If it is a system.ini file and looks to be complete and 'clean' then you could rename it back to 'system.ini' and see how it works. Oh, and change the PagingDrive=D: to PagingDrive=C: unless your swapfile is on the D: drive. You can check by right clicking on 'my computer', choose 'properties' and then 'performance' and then 'virtual memory'.

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I don't know what's up but I did that search and found this [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=vgasys.fon fixedfon.fon=vgafix.fon 386Grabber=vgafull.3gr display.drv=pnpdrvr.drv SCRNSAVE.EXE=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\FLYING~2.SCR [keyboard] keyboard.dll= oemansi.bin= subtype= type=4 [boot.description] system.drv=Standard PC keyboard.typ=Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard mouse.drv=Standard mouse aspect=100,96,96 display.drv=NVIDIA Vanta (HP) [386Enh] ebios=*ebios woafont=dosapp.fon mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd device=*dynapage device=*vcd device=*vpd device=*int13 device=*enable keyboard=*vkd display=*vdd,*vflatd EMMExclude=C000-CFFF [NonWindowsApp] TTInitialSizes=4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 20 22 [power.drv] [drivers] wavemapper=*.drv MSACM.imaadpcm=*.acm MSACM.msadpcm=*.acm wave=mmsystem.dll midi=mmsystem.dll [iccvid.drv] [mciseq.drv] [mci] cdaudio=mcicda.drv sequencer=mciseq.drv waveaudio=mciwave.drv avivideo=mciavi.drv videodisc=mcipionr.drv vcr=mcivisca.drv MPEGVideo=mciqtz.drv MPEGVideo2=mciqtz.drv WinDVD=ivimci.drv [vcache] [MSNP32] [Password Lists] default=C:\WINDOWS\default.PWL HP AUTHORIZED CUSTOM=C:\WINDOWS\Hpauthor.pwl *name*=C:\WINDOWS\DEANNARI.PWL [drivers32] msacm.lhacm=lhacm.acm VIDC.VDOM=vdowave.drv msacm.msaudio1=msaud32.acm msacm.sl_anet=sl_anet.acm MSACM.imaadpcm=imaadp32.acm MSACM.msadpcm=msadp32.acm MSACM.msgsm610=msgsm32.acm MSACM.msg711=msg711.acm MSACM.trspch=tssoft32.acm vidc.CVID=iccvid.dll VIDC.IV31=ir32_32.dll VIDC.IV32=ir32_32.dll vidc.MSVC=msvidc32.dll VIDC.MRLE=msrle32.dll msacm.msg723=msg723.acm vidc.M263=msh263.drv vidc.M261=msh261.drv VIDC.IV50=ir50_32.dll msacm.iac2=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IAC25_32.AX msacm.l3acm=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\L3CODECA.ACM msacm.msadpcm1=msadp32.acm VIDC.YUY2=msyuv.dll VIDC.UYVY=msyuv.dll VIDC.YVYU=msyuv.dll VIDC.WMV3=wmv9vcm.dll [TTFontDimenCache] 0 4=2 4 0 5=3 5 0 6=4 6 0 7=4 7 0 8=5 8 0 9=5 9 0 10=6 10 0 11=7 11 0 12=7 12 0 13=8 13 0 14=8 14 0 15=9 15 0 16=10 16 0 18=11 18 0 20=12 20 0 22=13 22 it seems to contain what you have in yours and what I have in mine [for the most part] but it is not a file I saved but most of that wasn't in my system.ini anytime that I seen it Also--Is it safe to change this and I'll still be able to navigate and stuff and change it back, basically no matter if I totally skrew it up? I just replaced it with this and my mouse is working again. I fear I have a virus but I don't have anything that has found it [using AVG free] so if it gets corrupted over and over again will re-saving this over the corrupted one break anything? Will the virus corrupt anything else--do you think...obviously can't know because we don't know the virus--?

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As long as you keep a copy of a good system.ini in a separate folder it should be safe. You can overwrite the working one at any time with the copy. If you do have a virus it likely will corrupt other files. I had a virus once that seemed to increase the size of a file whenever it was run. Just to check, I created a text file and then renamed to to an .exe file and tried to run it. Obviously it didn't run since it was a text file but when I looked at it again in notepad, a bunch of gibberish had been added. That kind of reminds me what may be happening in your case. (I don't think I ever fixed it. I probably just formatted and reinstalled.) But it may not be a virus so just keep an eye on system.ini to see if it gets corrupted again.

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okay I will keep my eye on it also my thorough scan did not find anything...took like 12 hours or something >.> haha

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It shouldn't have taken that long. How big a hard drive is it? You may need to defrag too.

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uhh 57.2 gig I do believe... ooh yeah... when I defrag right before I scan it goes WAY faster...it does matter if I defragged yesterday or something though I think...if I defrag first it goes waay fast...haha forgot :) I defragged a few days ago...but idon't know if the scanreg changed that...

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If you defragged a few days ago it should be fine. I guess a surface scan on a drive that big will take awhile. Still, 12 hours seems like a long time. Both defrag and scandisk should run better in safe mode.

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I was in safemode...haha...but umm I guess it took more around 10-11 hours [because of the pop-up message that stops the scan saying "the scan has restarted 10 times or more close programs to make it work better. do you want to see this message anymore" I clicked no and let it go away at it] crap forgot what else I was going to say...heh

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You'd probably only need to run a surface scan if you suspect there may be a problem with the drive. So hopefully you won't have to do it again.

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okay, Thank you very much for your help :)

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You're welcome. I hope it stays 'fixed'.

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