system restore without accessing safemode?

Hi,
As my computer will not get past the start up page (because the USB mouse
and keyboard are not working) is there any way of doing a system restore to
try to solve this problem without logging on normally or in safemode?

The keyboard works until the window drivers start. Is there anything that I
can do with a startup disc like bartPE as both the keyboard and mouse works
if I start windows with BartPE startup disc.
Cheers
Lenny

you can repair your
operating system:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ps/doug92.mspx

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"Lenny" <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> As my computer will not get past the start up page (because the USB mouse and
> keyboard are not working) is there any way of doing a system restore to try to
> solve this problem without logging on normally or in safemode?
>
> The keyboard works until the window drivers start. Is there anything that I
> can do with a startup disc like bartPE as both the keyboard and mouse works if
> I start windows with BartPE startup disc.
> Cheers
> Lenny
>

Hi Lenny,

You could go to device manager and right click on all the USB root
hubs and select Uninstall one by one until you have no USB items at
all! No that's not a silly idea because when you restart they will all
get re-detected and installed.

This will freshen up your PC's USB driver chain and maybe everything
will work ok now.


Hope that helps.

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http://mymessagetaker.com
The while-you-were-out message program you have been looking for!

I can't get logged in because both the mouse and the keyboard are USB so I
am unable to go to device manager.
<createwindow@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Lenny,
>
> You could go to device manager and right click on all the USB root
> hubs and select Uninstall one by one until you have no USB items at
> all! No that's not a silly idea because when you restart they will all
> get re-detected and installed.
>
> This will freshen up your PC's USB driver chain and maybe everything
> will work ok now.
>
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> CreateWindow
> http://mymessagetaker.com
> The while-you-were-out message program you have been looking for!
>
>

Doing a repair installation seems a little drastic for this problem. If I
could find al alternative that would be great.

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> you can repair your
> operating system:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ps/doug92.mspx
>
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> "Lenny" <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote in message
> newsoudne2Ic8BtVr7anZ2dnUVZ8smgnZ2d@pipex.net...
>> Hi,
>> As my computer will not get past the start up page (because the USB mouse
>> and keyboard are not working) is there any way of doing a system restore
>> to try to solve this problem without logging on normally or in safemode?
>>
>> The keyboard works until the window drivers start. Is there anything that
>> I can do with a startup disc like bartPE as both the keyboard and mouse
>> works if I start windows with BartPE startup disc.
>> Cheers
>> Lenny
>>
>

Lenny wrote:
> I can't get logged in because both the mouse and the keyboard are USB so I
> am unable to go to device manager.
> <createwindow@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1193539881.478218.104590@q5g2000prf.googlegro ups.com...
>> Hi Lenny,
>>
>> You could go to device manager and right click on all the USB root
>> hubs and select Uninstall one by one until you have no USB items at
>> all! No that's not a silly idea because when you restart they will all
>> get re-detected and installed.
>>
>> This will freshen up your PC's USB driver chain and maybe everything
>> will work ok now.

Does the computer have ps/2 ports so you could substitute a plain
vanilla ps/2 keyboard and mouse?

If not, then there are rescue systems such as ERD Commander from which
you can run System Restore on the local machine but that was a very
expensive program that AFAIK is no longer available. There is a chance a
local computer shop might have it. I don't believe you can run System
Restore from a Bart's but you can check on a Bart's forum. There are
quite a few of them:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...ms&btnG=Search

What about booting into Safe Mode Command Prompt? This will load Safe
Mode without the GUI. If this works for you, then at the command prompt do:

c:\Windows\System32\restore\rstrui.exe [enter]


Malke
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Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

then good luck.
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"Lenny" <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote in message
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> Doing a repair installation seems a little drastic for this problem. If I
> could find al alternative that would be great.
>
> " db ´¯`·.. ><)))º>` .. ." <databaseben.public.newsgroup.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message news:uNvnHdPGIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> you can repair your
>> operating system:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ps/doug92.mspx
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>> "Lenny" <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote in message
>> newsoudne2Ic8BtVr7anZ2dnUVZ8smgnZ2d@pipex.net...
>>> Hi,
>>> As my computer will not get past the start up page (because the USB mouse
>>> and keyboard are not working) is there any way of doing a system restore to
>>> try to solve this problem without logging on normally or in safemode?
>>>
>>> The keyboard works until the window drivers start. Is there anything that I
>>> can do with a startup disc like bartPE as both the keyboard and mouse works
>>> if I start windows with BartPE startup disc.
>>> Cheers
>>> Lenny
>>>
>>
>
>