When I try to use a shortcut on my desktop, the "Open With" box pops up. But, its not just shortcuts on the desktop, its various folders within the system "tree". Not even my "Windows" folder will open up, unless I right click, and click on the lower-case "open" in the menu. I tried deletting the...

Hi there. Restored my system with rescue disks (don't ask) and had more ram and new video card putin ,then downloaded the latest win updates. Then noticed my desktop did not fit to the edges of the screen, there was a black strip all the way around the edge. So right clicked desktop, went to...

When I go to launch a game,(a game that requires fullscreen),It will not load. What it's also doing,Is when it goes into the game, a black screen will show,for about 2 seconds,then it will go back to the desktop. HELP!!!

When opening an attachment in Outlook Express, an errorMessagee appears at the top of the message,"INVALID SYNTAX ERROR" and the page says."cannot open this page.Also, The same problem occurs when I attempt to open SAVED MESSAGES and photos that have the Internet green E logo.

The display mode is stuck on 640x480 and colour won't change from 16 colours mode.

all of my buttons have changed in Windows ME. The restore, minimize, and close buttons have changed into a O, 1, and r. All of my checkboxes have changed too. On IE, the button next to the BACK button has changed to a 6 Any help on how to change them back would be appreciated

my color is stuck in 16bit i get message spool32 cause error in MMSYSTEM.DLL any ideas on fixing this.

My thumbnails for jpegs are not displayed when i click to view them. i can open the images but i cannot see htem for thumbnails, others like tiff and bmp are fine! can someone help me sort this out?

I've recently updated internet explorer/outlook ezpress to version 6. Now the folder tree pane is empty, when I launch windows explorer. Does anyone know how to display the folders in the left pane. I have a big sign above my computer that reads "Don't make it better". Boy am I stupid......

Connection icons do not appear. (mini monitors)

I am having a problem where after boot-up normally I am unable to view the contents of any folders. I have run stinger to check for viruses, search and destroy spybot, adaware looking for viruses/trojans and the like. It hasn't found anything. When I try to use the system restore, it tries...

My screen blacks out after opening a certain webpage. All other webpages display fine. Does anyone know what might be causing this? After screen blacks out it won't come back until I restart my system (Windows ME).

OE says my password is not acceptable and it does not recognise my user name. I haven't been able to get to email in 3 months so i started another one on yahoo. My internet provider has spent hours on the phone with me trying to help. I have talked to 8 tech support people in one month to try...

in windows millenium french, in windows explorer, view, explorer Bar, Folder screen is gray with the x for clode it and no folder ?? Thanks

When I open the folder in "MY Pictures" I get the thumbnails as I have set up for, however recently when I select a particular picture to enlarge it seems to hang up or after a minute or so say no file selected. Sometimes if I reboot it will correct itself and sometime not. I have run antivirus...

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On startup, I am not getting anything on the monitor. After 2-3 restarts it remained the same. I have changed the VGA but still no use. Any ideas?

Me again. Had to use the rescue disks and now the screen display is grainy, like its in safe mode, but its not. Also boxes etc are not lining up properly but off centred and not sitting/fitting right, and there's too much info on the page, so I have to scroll sideways back and forth to read it. ...

I installed a USB2.0 card on my 4 year old PC running on WinME in order to hook up an external HD. Installation went fine but the computer slowed down so much it became useless. It also interfered with my IE6.0. I saw no IRQ conflicts but removed the modem and ISDN card just in case. No luck. How...

My sons computer runs windows ME, I have just run a virus check and found over 400 trojans etc, all residing in the restore folder. How can I clear this folder as three different virus checkers say access denied. Help Alan