Hi Here's the instruction to activate the command prompt in Win2000. You need to edit the registry. Please back up your registry first before messing with it. This task is pretty straight forward. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techenthusiast/tricks/administration/registry.asp Tonia PcCowboy <saddle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Get yourself a Win 98/Me boot disk. Boot the computer from it and then you should have access to the drive. Unless you are running the NTF format then you have to put a NTF reader on your boot disc to read a NTF drive under Dos. You can get a free one from the net. If you can't find one I have one I can e-mail you. Pc ----- Original Message ----- From: s m d To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: [pchelpers] Deleting Folder Contents . I was going to attempt deleting in DOS but we are on Windows 2000 and we can't find a way of getting a true DOS prompt in that OS. Any suggestions? -Susan -- --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.