I recently noticed that a bunch of files (viruses) were
popping up on my Dad's computer, so I attempted to get
rid of them and did so, for most of them. But, there
appeared to be one using a DLL that loaded with all the
Explorer windows so it ran it everytime I opened one of
them. I attempted to get rid of it by installing anti-
virus, but it had not detected it. And I scanned with a
spyware program only to notice that one of the registry
keys was changed. Now, I don't remember what the registry
key was, but it had a %1 in it and it had been changed to
just the % in the value of the key. So I attempted
rebooting the computer only to have it go all the way to
the main screen, but only the cursor shows up along with
the background. All the other things such as taskbar,
desktop icons, etc. do not load. Now I know its because
of that registry value. I attempted going into Safe Mode
to change the value, but even in safe mode, it does the
same thing. I re-installed Windows ME a bunch of times in
attempt to thwart this problem, only to have the
installation give me errors, which baffled me. I was
wondering if there was some weird way to get into Windows
besides SafeMode or using the BootDisk which only gives
you a command prompt, so thats no help. Please help!