Computer newbies forum: Script error on Windows ME

baddk,

In addition to Marianna's good suggestion, make sure to clean out the C\Windows\Temp folder which is where the bad" program may have resided. It appears like the file has already been deleted but the registry is making a "call" for the file and can't find it. In order to stop the call, you'll need to check the registry, or the possibly the Win.ini file.

Start by checking the Win.ini file, since it's the easiest. Click on Start-Run, type "msconfig" (without the quotes), then click on OK. When the that loads, click on the "Win.ini" tab and see if there is an entry referring to that file. (Click on the + signs next to each listing.) If so, delete the entry. If not, close "msconfig" by clicking on the X in the upper left.

Now check the registry (click on Start-Run, type "regedit", then click on OK),at the locations below. If the file name is listed in an entry there, delete the entry.:

Hkey Current User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version
Run
RunOnce

and

Hkey Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version
Run
Run-
RunServices
RunServices-
RunOnce
RunOnceX
Run ServicesOnce

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes.

Grif

but none of it seemed to work.

Tell what you did RE: the lower half of Grif's input. Something is probably there and not found by you or you're not giving the full details of the reported error message and a time frame of when it's render by the computer. Which?? Also, give us a list of what you find on each of these lines.