mireazma

Thank you so much. So kind of you. I'll do as you said.

Sorry if I've posted into wrong place but this seemed the most appropriate one. Can you direct me please, to a place where to get help in making a boot menu CD, without installing Windows? I want just the menu in which to select the OS I want, pretty much like PQ Boot. It would be unnecessary since boot.ini does just this, but the very feature I'm interested in is hiding certain partitions at boot time. I'll try to be as clear as I can. This way, I would have 2 independent "virtual" physical drives. I would emulate the following situation: I have 2 physical drives and only one is visible at a time (let's say, because of having one cable only). Each has its own OS and several partitions. I switch between them (unplug the current physical drive and plug in the other). Let's say I have in reality one HDD. I split it into 6 partitions C, D, E, F, G and H. I want C, D and E be visible if I boot the C:\windows and F, G and H hidden. Likewise, F, G and H visible when I boot from F:\windows and the others hidden. Of course, F, G and H would show up after booting, with the letters C, D and E respectively. For this I'd boot from a CD that shows a menu and manages all these. If I didn't use the CD, then no menu would show and the default partitions would show up, loading the default windows. Of course, hidden partitions would still be visible from within PQ Partition Magic or other partition utility. Again I apologize if this isn't the right place. But I couldn't find a closer-related section and you guys, are the right men to know about this.

Thanks both for replying. I didn't remove the core but only IE browser (at least I think i did this). I've uploaded last session.ini LAST_SESSION__205503.04_19.24.46_.INI

I kept "user account pictures" and the IE core (thought maybe this is responsible with displaying the avatar in the up start menu). What else do I have too keep in order to have my avatar displayed? If I select a default photo, it says: "Automation server can't create object". If I browse to my own, it just doesn't show it. Now for a better idea - in Control Panel/User Accounts when I click on Guest to disable it, it says "The specified program is not a Windows or MS-DOS program."... Sometimes in the User Accounts window this appears: "The page could not be displayed" just like when you try to connect to an offline site with IE (I use FF). I forgot to mention (it seemed irrelevant) that I removed IE from "Network" section, as I use Firefox. Could this be the cause?