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Claire - 30 Dec 2003 13:42 GMT

I did an upgrade last night on my McAfee Antivirus ...
I had to reboot my computer to have the changes take
effect ...
On start up, I got the error message "explorer not found"
"reinstall windows", then I cant do anything else ...
My screen just freezes up ... HELPP!!!!

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Li'l Roberto - 31 Dec 2003 08:52 GMT

> I did an upgrade last night on my McAfee Antivirus ...
> I had to reboot my computer to have the changes take
> effect ...
> On start up, I got the error message "explorer not found"
> "reinstall windows", then I cant do anything else ...
> My screen just freezes up ... HELPP!!!!

Start up and press the F8 key to get to the start menu, choose DOS
prompt only, rename autoexec.bat and config.sys with this command:
ren autoexec.bat autoexec.old <enter>
ren config.sys config.old <enter>
reboot and see if windows loads if so, you may have to reinstall
McAfee and contact their help desk for assistance with re applying the
update.
If no joy you may be able to restore a good registry by entering
this command from the start menu DOS prompt

scanreg /restore
choose a date prior to your problem with the McAfee update

rgds
Li'l Roberto

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Bill in Co. - 25 Mar 2005 05:25 GMT

Well, and I should add: True security lies within.

Bill in Co. wrote:

> Simple. None. (And I'm still here to prove it).
>
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>>>>> The solution is simple: don't take in all the (supposed) "updates".

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