[Lucy Locket]

Originally Posted by David Franklin

OK, to get to your windows directory, you need to type cd \windows. To be honest, I'm not exactly clear what you're supposed to do once you get there, so perhaps Gadget can add to this.

[The good news is that you can open a command window. The fact that didn't seem to be working is what had Gadget (and me) immediately thinking "Oh s**t - sounds like a virus"]

If Gadget doesn't respond, my next suggestion is:

type:

cd \windows\system32
dir *.nt




Ignore the first bit of the output, but you should get some lines looking like:

04/08/2004   11:00                1,688  AUTOEXEC.NT
01/01/2005   09:58                2,577  CONFIG.NT

Let us know exactly what those lines say, or if they don't appear.

dir*.nt is not recognized as internal or external command, operable program or batch file