Unable to access start menu in ME

[videobruce]

The start menu is unaccessible and My Computer only opens up a blank window. I get a error message from IE;

"Your current sercurity settings prohibit running Active X controls on this page."

Even in safe mode the start menu is unaccessible. Though I can see the drives in My Computer where I couldn't in normal mode. This isn't my box, it's a Comtrash with a KZ133 chipset MB.

Any ideas?

[Paul Komski]

Sounds like registry corruption or malware of some kind.

Try some keyboard navigation such as CTRL+ESC for the Start Menu to see if that gets you anywhere.

http://www.theosfiles.com/os_windows/ospg_wme_secrets.htm

[videobruce]

Tried that, but it didn't work.

I just wiped the drive partitioned it, formatted it to NTFS and loaded 2k Pro w/SP4 slipstreamed from a bootable CD. Sweet. ;)

[PrntRhd]

I just wiped the drive partitioned it, formatted it to NTFS and loaded 2k Pro w/SP4 slipstreamed from a bootable CD. Sweet.
Might be for the best as support for ME (what little there was) discontinues in July 2006.

[videobruce]

2006 or 2005?

[PrntRhd]

WINME support, WIN98, WIN98SE all discontinue July 11, 2006. A reprieve kept the support alive the extra time, but MS seems determined to not to write patches for the 9x series.