Safe Mode

Go to www.microsoft.com and search for regclean. It is a program from Microsoft that will attempt to correct issues in the registry. Whether it will fix yours or not, I don't know. I have used it successfully on others.
Another such utility is partof Ontrack's Fix-it Utilities. This is also a registry cleaner, in fact a lot better one, but you have to buy it.
Good Luck!!!

Hi there.. RegClean 4.1a is a good idea, you can read about it and download it via: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q147/7/69.asp There is also another good registry cleaner that is free, you can find it via:http://www.bootdisk.com/genfiles/eclea1_7.exe Good Luck!

John

While in safe mode, attempt to run the "MSCONFIG" utility.
This can be run from the "RUN" utility on the start menu....
Click "start" choose "Run" and type "MSCONFIG" in the run window, and press enter

You may then be able to eliminate lines from your startup file"Autoexec.bat" one line at a time, restarting each time until you find the offending line.
This will take some patience, restarting windows after each change is made to see what has been causing the problem.
Good luck !!!

Another common cause for continuous safe mode startup would be using real mode device drivers...especially regarding the disk drives. I'm not sure how this would work on a MAC in Virtual windows, but hey...we are eliminating possibilities as we go...

This can be checked in computer properties-performance.
Rt. Click on "My Computer", select properties, and choose the "performance" tab.
Select the "file system" button, and choose troubleshooting...
None of these boxes should have check marks in them...

if this ain't it, well, keep pluggin away...

Good luck

If you can get to a dos prompt, virtual or otherwise, at bootup do so!
1) At the prompt, run scanreg.
2) You should see a screen that gives a couple of options. What you are looking for is an option to restore!
3) Selecting this option will show you a list of previously saved registries. Select the one dated before the date that you made the changes to your system, that threw you into safemode.
4) Re-boot your system or virtual machine!

This may or may not work for you! If you do not have any saved registries for scanreg to work with, then it's no good!

Hope this is of some use. I would like to know!

Jerry

Opps , Jumps to mind , no matter you can try the following , i am afraid i dont have time to check the regkey generated but the following might help out:
(CD rom will NOT work in safe mode)
1.Try back step review what you did and see if you can "undo it" eg if you added something to the autoexec remove it.
2.if you did edit the autoexec and are unsure what to remove just rename it to autoexec.old and see what happens , if its the same problem then it not that .
3.Try run the reinstall javafolloing the instructions to the letter.
4.reinstall win98 over old
5. if that dosent work you have a problem , personaly if its not critical id back up the essencials and reinstall , sometimes its not worth the time to fix becides you if it is fixed your system will be less stable and will over time become more unstable.

Have you viewed the contents of config.sys yet?
Several years ago, a young nephew crashed a game he was playing in Dos mode on my fathers home PC. instead of returning or restarting windows, he turned the computer off.
The PC would then continually need to start in Dos mode, and the only way to get to a GUI was in safe mode.
Check the file "Config.sys" the exact lines I cannot say, but they will reference startup
and be near the top of the file.

hey, it's another possibility to eliminate.

Good luck