install gone wrong

interesting, i do recall something like that happening.

guess i will find out tonight, will let yall know

all is good

it kept wanting to finish the install so like you guys said boot from the cd. it recognised there was an installation and i could start over without reformatting.

pretty much rewrites all your settings but it didnt delete other folders i had on the drive.

thanx for all the help guys, think ill give up on the tweaking just to unstable

Thanks for the update. Glad you got things in order.

If you are interested in optimizing, I'd suggest disabling unecessary services. It's a good place to start.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

That's a great reference which details what's safe to disable and what isn't.
I'd recommend setting a restore point before you start and disabe a few at a time, making note of the ones you do disable. If things work fine, set a new restore point and disable a few more. That way, if things start acting funny, you can just re-enable the last services you disabled or at the worst, go back to your last restore point.

no probs, thanx

thats a good link, ill have to try some of those out

and yes i will also start using restore points too haha

cheers

Personally, I keep System Restore turned off. However, I do turn it back on if I'm going to make radical changes or experiment.

Here's something else in which you might be interested:
http://www.ozzu.com/mswindows-forum/nlite-windows-installation-customizer-t27644.html

sounds interesting, think ill leave until my projects are done this time...just in case

Oh sure. Just something to consider when you feel brave enough in the future.