Hello

I would like to start by saying I've been stupid. I'm hoping someone on here can help as it is beyond my knowledge. It started because I have XP home but wanted to be able to remote desktop from my laptop to the affected PC. I found this posy http://www.geekport.com/2007/08/15/enabling-remote-desktop-in-xp-home/ and began to follow it. I edited the productoptions as stated. When I tried to press F8 on start up to use last know good configuration i couldn't as I have a USB keyboard.

(I won't go into everything or the silly reasons I did what I did next as I now know exactly what I should have done)

I went into ms config and selected selective start up and unticked all boxes then restarted. This didn't work obviously. I then found out about enabling USB support and enabled this. I then pressed F* and loaded last known configuration. There were other things I did between these two but I cannot remember exactly now. The long and the short of it is that I finally loaded last know configuration and a LOT of things including internet, usb support for memory stick do not work. My simple way of thinking is that I have loaded the selective start up and cannot get back to the original start up with full support etc. The system restore had been turned off when I mucked about with start up and therefore I cannot restore. I have a start up disc that will restore to factory SETTINGS but i really do not want to do this.

Please can anyone help and believe me I have learnt a valuable lesson.

Ash.Can you try using a PS2 keyboard and then making the changes at startup ? ?I was wrong there is USB support. It's strange what has happened. I don't know if it related to the change of productoptions or not.

I think I will need to restore to factory settings and take this on the chin.

Ash.Having thought about it I have decided to restore to factory settings. I quite liked the idea of starting again once I had got over the INITIAL panic.

Thanks for you help.

Ash.