I messed up! I went into the MSCONFIG startup Tab and de-selected a few items. Now the computer can't get past the HP Splash page. It will only open BIOS!! Is there anyway to fix it other than re-installing the O.S.?

you might try safe mode by tapping the F8 key while booting.

If you can't get into safe mode, use a 98 or ME startup diskette (floppy) and restore your registry to a prior state using scanreg /restore. How to Manually Restore the Windows 98/Me Registry

Well what did you disble in MSCONFIG ,there are system processes that must remain intact in order for the O/S to operate correctly ? Have you tried starting in safe mode, hold down the delete key at start up, depending on what type and version of your BIOS you may need to hold down the F2key instead ? You mat need to correct this from DOS ,thats beyond my abilities ,however someone else maybe able to help you in that area hopefully my good friends JAM or JBOY will respond ,they seem to have a great knowledge of how to get things started here are some other suggestions >>> Ok you will need a windows m.e boot disk. if you dont have one you can get one from www.bootdisk.com you will need to reboot into dos by putting the windows m.e boot disk into drive and rebooting Next choose with out cd-rom suport click enter. there will a flashing curor and it will look like a>:_ you will be asked to do these dos fixes at the a: or a: prompt. the easy things first at the a: type sys c: click enter (a:sys c:) if secessfull it will say system tranferd than reboot computer. if this did not work at the a:fdisk /mbr click enter and reboot. note space bettween fdisk and /mbr next you can try deleteing temp files from prompt a:del c:\windows\temp*.* click enter next try deleteing the swap file a:del c:\win386.swap and a veary important over looked solution is a:scanreg /restore click enter you have 5 registry restore points set by default,and each new day you try to restart computer you loose one older restore point. anther thing you can do from dos is look at your bootlog.txt a: c:\windows\bootlog.txt click enter if it dont go than a: c:\bootlog.txt You can look at the last thing listed in log and most likely its the item that caused windows not to load. If the file is in windows you can rename it to old from what ever its was befor ie;exe txt dll ect. an example of renameing would be to rename windoz.dll to windoz.old you would use a:ren c:windows\windoz.dll c:\windows\windoz.old then click enter note space you can use rename in place of ren You can allso do a system restore from dos with boot disk allso http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q279736 How to Start the System Restore Tool From a Command Prompt 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 First Published: Nov 15 2000 12:18PM Keywords: kbtool kbWinME kbProd2Web kbhowto dos mode