This does not happen often, but when it does it always occurs when the start menu is being brought up. The message says: EXPLORER caused a general protection fault in module KRNL386.EXE at 0001:000075a8. Any suggestions are welcomed

Wierdest thing. I have 3 systems running windows ME, my desktop computer at work, my desktop computer at home and my laptop. All on the same day they start getting "runtime error 226" after I have been opening diffentent folders for awhile.

ZoneAlarm keeps warning me that SSDP.EXE is trying to access the net. From what I've gleaned from the KB, this module is primarily involved with LAN hookups. I'm not on a LAN. Should I be concerned or should I allow it access? Thanks in advance... -- George J. Wallace

If I use a restore disk could I upgrade to windows me afterwards?

Using MSN Messenger 6.2.0137. Whenever I try to initiate or Accept a voice chat request, Messenger locks up. I am not sure when this problem started, but it used to work just fine. Does anyone know how to fix this? I have since disabled the older Windows Messenger (did the Registry tricks...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can advise me. I am unable to enable my system restore..when I go to "system/performance/file system/troubleshooting" the 'disable system restore' box is checked, when I uncheck it and then reboot, it is checked again when I boot up. I also am only able to defrag in safe mode...

Last night I was browsing thru Google to view medical sites in reference to the Lipitor drug effects, when suddenly I hit a site that grabbed my session and everytime that I try to close it, it opened another of the same window (6 or 7 times) with the site in question. Finally I got to come back to...

What's a good 3rd party software product for backing up data??

I cannot start ME and cannot access my start up CD and do not have a floppy version. I'm trying to get into command prompt from start up and running into some difficulty. I have a registry error I'm trying to fix. Any suggestions? Problems in Houston

Everytime I run Search & Destroy, a file called DSOExploit comes up as a problem. I have Spybot fix the problem. Then next time, I run Search & Destroy, there's DSOExploit again. Can someone tell me what this file is and why I keep getting it? Thanks, Eileen

On attempting to upgrade Millenium Edition to XP Pro, I have encountered the following error message:" An error occurred copying file "COMCTL.DL_" to the appropriate C drive location in i386. The following quote "the file is missing" is a bit of a worry. Am i best to clean install or is there a...

All of my programs are gone, Windows opens but I cxannot my d drive is not working, my a drive is not working....They are not even listed in System devices, nothing is, except for Local C-drive. My system used to show 34% free, now it shows 76% free, I can't reload anything from d or a drive,...

Hello All: Belarc Advisor tells me I have 48.56 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity and 47.00 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space. Then why is it, that FDISK tells me a different story? I must confess, the instructions for FDISK and FORMAT Tools are somewhat confusing to me, because of the...

It was reinstalled over the old Me. The Microsoft support page you referred me to had a solution to the blank pages. The only problem now is a script error for the "Welcome to Windows" thing. Can I just delete the file ...Micros~1\Intro\ content.hta or do I need to fix the cause of the script...

Hello. I get this Exception OE @ 0028: E95FC220 in VXD___. and it says this was called from 0028: C001D3B4 in VXD NDIS (01)+00005B30 and gives the option of pressing any key to continue (which does not) or CTRL+ALT+DEL. scan disk does not find any error. This happens when I exit IE the monitor...

After running disk cleanup, I was unable to access one of my drives. Scandisk was unable to check the drive because it says a disk utility has the drive locked. I have no other disk utilty on my machine. Is there some way to unlock that particular drive?

This is the first time I have posted here. I have just finished installing WinME after formatting C: and setting up shares for my network. Now whenever I create a new folder, or rename an existing one, Explorer freezes for exactly 30 seconds. If I'm doing it in a save dialog box its the same. ...

With reference to fdisk /mbr I did a status check on fdisk as follows: Fixed Disk Drive Status Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage 1 19093 8 100% C: 19085 2 96 ...

Dell Pentium III computer with 512 MB RAM I have been using a Kodak DX6440 digital camera, and its EasyShare software, since October 2003. Last month, I had to replace a broken CD-RW drive on my computer. After I replaced that drive, I was no longer able to transfer photographs from the Kodak...

My neighbor called me last night and I went over to his house. He has a compaq computer running Windows ME that started to have the following problem. When he boots the PC it boots and just when the screen goes blank and the ME Screen comes up the PC starts beeping. If you hit the F1 key the...