Just as a side note: if you want your icons back, just copy and paste them again. When they paste they should be fine. Worked for me.

Thanks ripa!! After trying everything in all of the other threads, that was the only thing that worked. Just to repeat for anyone reading this later: Hold del during boot up to access bios. Change primary boot drive as cdrom (optical drive) From there you'll have many options. I just performed a …

The Windows Vista installation cd, that is.

No, I didn't follow a guide. However, it seems (at least from the other threads I've found) that something about the combination of Power ISO and dosbox might be the problem. I'm currently on a lab computer, but when I get home I'll try the exe file you attached, ripa. I found something like that in …

I've tried everything in both threads, but nothing seems to work. I can't even reach regedit, safe mode doesn't allow me any more access. Deleting it is impossible...nothing seems to work.

I'm not sure what I did, but while trying to run X com in dosbox I managed to make it so that no matter what shortcut or program I select, dos box opens and tries to run it. I've tried various things, including restarting the computer (around 44 dos boxes open trying to run various programs) and …