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by tjiambac

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It is a help desk position, I have been away from this field for about 7 years and I have become very rusty! I practice on my computer and go to school in the evenings but it is nothing like hands on experience.

on that back up of hard drive.
1. how do I shut down Windows ME to get to my dos prompt or command line? I do not want any windows active files running

2.Were do I get the guest.exe from it was not on any of my zip disk?

Thanks for the rapid response earlier!

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by qballrail

You can access a "clean" DOS environment by selecting Start | Shutdown | Restart in MS-DOS Mode and clicking ok. That will only load whatever is in your Autoexec or config files. The system will then reboot into DOS for you. Or, insert a DOS bootdisk into your diskette drive and boot to that, but your BIOS needs to be set to boot to floppy first from the Advanced Settings.

Guest.exe can usually be found on your WinME CD-ROM disc. Not sure which directory, but very likely in the Windows root.

Good luck!

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