Installation loop

[Ron Rector]

Click on start and go to run. Type in msconfig and hit ok.
Go to the startup tab and look in your list. Do you have
anything in tehre starting out with the letters WINK??
If so, you have the w32.klez virus. Here are the removal
instructions and a tool to clean it.

W32.Klez Removal Tool
http://tinyurl.com/538

>-----Original Message-----
>Just bought XP-Home to upgrade from awful ME.
Installation
>process loops between the "Welcome to XP" screen and the
>enter product key screen. I only getr started entering
the
>product key and it fashes back to the "Welcome..." screen.
> To get MS help I need the product ID; to get the Id it
>must be installed; my problem is I can't get it
installed!!
>I'm going bonkers here. Thanks for any help. Bill F
>.
>

[Amethyst]

Ron Rector wrote:
> Click on start and go to run. Type in msconfig and hit ok.
> Go to the startup tab and look in your list. Do you have
> anything in tehre starting out with the letters WINK??
> If so, you have the w32.klez virus. Here are the removal
> instructions and a tool to clean it.
>
> W32.Klez Removal Tool
> http://tinyurl.com/538
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Just bought XP-Home to upgrade from awful ME. Installation
>> process loops between the "Welcome to XP" screen and the
>> enter product key screen. I only getr started entering the
>> product key and it fashes back to the "Welcome..." screen.
>> To get MS help I need the product ID; to get the Id it
>> must be installed; my problem is I can't get it installed!!
>> I'm going bonkers here. Thanks for any help. Bill F
>> .


Err, Ron...If he can't actually boot to Windows, how can he access msconfig?
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[Bill Fisher]

Ron, Thanks for the response. I did as suggested and found=20
and item called "winkvf". I'll now try to remove it.
Oh, regarding the other comment added by another...my ME=20
system comes up and it is there that I fgound=20
the 'winkvf'. Thaks again. Bill Fisher
>-----Original Message-----
>Ron Rector wrote:
>> Click on start and go to run. Type in msconfig and hit=20
ok.
>> Go to the startup tab and look in your list. Do you have
>> anything in tehre starting out with the letters WINK??
>> If so, you have the w32.klez virus. Here are the removal
>> instructions and a tool to clean it.
>>
>> W32.Klez Removal Tool
>> http://tinyurl.com/538
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> Just bought XP-Home to upgrade from awful ME.=20
Installation
>>> process loops between the "Welcome to XP" screen and=20
the
>>> enter product key screen. I only getr started entering=20
the
>>> product key and it fashes back to the "Welcome..."=20
screen.
>>> To get MS help I need the product ID; to get the Id it
>>> must be installed; my problem is I can't get it=20
installed!!
>>> I'm going bonkers here. Thanks for any help. Bill F
>>> .
>
>
>Err, Ron...If he can't actually boot to Windows, how can=20
he access msconfig?
>--=20
>Cassandra
>Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead=20
Are People
>Too!'
>
>Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse,=20
insults, bequests
>of =A31million to cassandra (at) craigy34 (dot) freeserve=20
(dot) co (dot)
>uk. Change the obvious to the obvious.
>Private requests for assistance will not be acknowledged.=20
Please post
>all correspondence to the group so that all may benefit.=20
Thank you.
>
>
>.
>