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by wayneinreno

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I am trying to download a driver for my scanner from HP. It goes all the way to where it is almost complete, and then it stops, and I get an error popping up. "FATAL ERROR". I am wondering if this is because when I boot up I get a plain message in the upper left hand corner of the screen that says "Invalad Boot.INI File Booting from C:\Windows". I just now had to press this machine into service. It also has that WinBlast in the start up config. I did uncheck it, but I don't know how to permanently get rid of it.

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by wayneinreno

I did run anti virus and eliminated the blaster. But it is still sitting in my start up config. When I go into the registry to try to find it I cannot see it anywhere. I Go to the HKey-Local Machine_software-microsoft-current version-run. I am unable to find it there. Running Win XP Home. HP, Celeron, 850, 348 MB Ram.

by oz_media

Run a file find for all instances of BLAST and BLASTER, I find the removal tools usually miss all these files.

Do the same with your registry. (don't forget to export a backup copy before modifying the registry).

You might want to go into ADD/Remove programs, find Microsoft Internet Explorer and click Remove. It won't actually remove IE but will brong up a Reinstall or Repair window where you can select to choose either option.

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