thanks, I made a boot disk and was able to get into dos. but then the commands I was throwing at it werent working any who!! ex. I was trying to find a file called logo.sys actually its c:\logo.sys
I was told to type c:\>attrib *.sys but it didnt work, I guess that only worked for win98 and lower????
and now I have a new ? but should I ask it here, or in a new post. I dont want to become the only person asking questions.

here it is.
in windows...you have regedit. you can get to it by clicking start/run then typing regedit, but it opens, and you see the window for a few secs, then it closes. so i went to mycomputer/c:/windows/regedit and it opens and same thing. HOW IN THE HECK DO I KEEP IT OPEN??? c'mon guys, I know you all are way smarter than me so lets see what you got.