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With a boot disk you will not be able to view your ntfs partition (assuming you formatted with ntfs for xp) which is why you can not find / access that file from a boot disk. If you are trying to change your splash screen, there are easier ways if I remember right, let me know if this is your goal. As far as regedit goes, sounds like a virus or some sort of malware is closing it to keep you from accessing or changing your registry. Run an AV scan of your choice, and I recommend running Ad-aware to check for spyware / malware found at: www.lavasoftusa.com (free for home users)
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Regedit opens a new window which does not close by itself in normal circumstances.
Check your system for viruses and trojans ASAP.
There are a few out there that can cause this type of behaviour.
One thing to check manually is to see if you have infected versions of explorer.exe
If you search for explorer.exe, all the copies of it should be in your main Windows directory (C:\Windows on a default install). If you find them somewhere else as well, that is highly suspicious.
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as far as logo.sys is concerned it doesn't exist in XP... only exists in win9x... you'll want to be looking for something called ntoskrnl.exe for XP if you want to change your boot up logo. But it's not as easy as changing logo.sys since ntoskrnl is protected by windows file protection system. Its possible to do it manually but its a bit of a fiddle. Far easier to use a 3rd party program. You may want to give a program called BootXp a look if you want to change ntoskrnl.exe
It's available at this place
http://www.bootxp.net/
some of the DOS commands from win9x won't work on XP, for a list of the commands that do work with XP command line interface go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/h.../en/ntcmds.asp
Incidentally the attrib command does still work... but your example would not work because you didn't indicate that any parameters should be passed to the file, for example to clear the hidden file attribute on all files with a .sys extension present in C: you would type something like
attrib -h c:\*.sys
as for the problem with running regedit from start>run... it's not something I've ever encountered so i can't help on that one. My regedit opens fine, and stays open as long as I want. Maybe someone else will be able to help
Z
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Just a few comments:
XP takes a bit of getting used to if you come from 9x/Me/NT4. I admit that my first impression was that it had "been delivered before the paint had dried" :)
It does have quite good internal help, but seems to be much more internet/online focussed than previous MS OSes?..............that might just be my imagination. It is very fast if you give it enough resource, probably 20% faster than 98se on a 1GHz box. (artificial benchmarks). I must admit to having some initial problems with drivers.
I have no problems with Me provided that you give it enough resource..........it is VERY greedy in my experience...........I run it on a PII/333 and PII/450 both with 384Mb of SDRAM and both boxes are stable.
I may be paranoid, but I have noticed that some manufacturers seem to be supplying kit with BIOS that is hard to get to and has had a lot of functionality disabled...........that's why I build my own these days.
I have also seen ex-corporate boxes with severe restrictions on them.
In both cases the motive is probably to cut down helpdesk calls?
The virus advice is very good though, and should be the first thing that you eliminate from your enquiries.
Good Luck
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To tell the truth the only thing i dont like about Xp is the "teletubbies" look. I cant remeber where i first read that description but it kinda fits.
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You can always tweak that soccer mom look using Style XP and etc.
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i didnt try this with regedit but ive done it a couple of times with my C++ progs... anyway go into ms dos and type:
cd c:\windows\ {enter}
and then type regedit... and if there are any commands that you need to type with regedit do so by typing
regedit -whatever
hope this helps
