Hi Today I replaced my 40GB hard drive with a new 80GB one. While it is correctly shown as 80GB in the bios, windows shows it as 64GB! How do I get windows to correctly identify it? cheers bill

I was installing a CD burner to a USB port. It installed but could not get it to make copies. I then checked device manager and saw no conflicts. I checked to see if all the wires were secure and noticed one was loose. I pushed it in and the add hardware wizard came on. The system then locked up. I...

I have a FUJIFILM camera FINEPIX 2600Zoom. I had it installed in my computer but I had to uninstall and reinstall WINDOWSME and when I did, \USBDRV\WINME\UFLT04CB.INF did niot get reinstalled. How do I do this without unstall and reinstall WINDOWSME again? My email address is...

I posted this question over in "general," but then it occurred to me it's probably really a hardware question, so I've posted it here as well. Any ideas on why my DVD drive (functionally my CD drive) isn't visible in Safe Mode? It appears in the BIOS setup screens, and is properly identified...

Ed ) wrote: Did you ever figure your problem out? Yes. I have nearly the same except my dvd recorder only gives me that error message with dvd-r. It writes to dvd rw. (and I have a hp moviewriter, I think the problem is with the software or configuration, not the...

I have this error28 on my sound, does anyone know what it means. On my dsl i have error2 and can anyone help me fix these problems

Bonjour Sur un portable Sony j'ai une lecteur DVD MAT****A_DVD-RAM_UJ-850S ATA auquel je n'ai plus accès: point d'exclamation jaune dans le gestionnaire de périphérique et Windows Vista me dit qu'il ne peut pas charger le pilote! J'ai essayé de réinstaller le lecteur et le pilote, sans succès. Je...

I have an e-Machine 633ids with Windows ME Existing 15 gig hard drive. Additional 20 gig hard drive with external enclosure Windows isn't recognizing the hard additional drive. It isn't listed in "My computer". Here's what I have so far: I'm not really sure if these are new or existing but here...

Today my mouse pointer disappears over the application/browser windows. I am able to get it to occasionally appear by clicking in the taskbar (not all of the time). Anyone have suggestions? -- Thanks, Brian

I recently purchased 128 megs more of ram from the local Fry's. I installed it in the slot and nothing happened. The computer does not recognize that there is another 128 megs of ram. It is still only using the original 128. Is there anything I can do to make it recognize the other 128 that I...

Im trying to install the driver for a HP Designjet 500 42" from the HP setup cd. When running setup from the disk or when trying to use "Add Printer" in Control Panel, Windows locks up at "Updating Hardware Information Database." Any ideas?

I ran scandisk on my friends computer. He then restarted it and got an I/O error in the Subdirectory........etc The solution from Microsoft requires you to be in safe mode, but we are unable to get into safe mode to run MSconfig. Does anyone know another way to limit the amount of memory used on...

you need to restart your computer. What is wrong and what to do? did a system restoration kit with no effect

Not sure where to go since my laptop is several years old and has no free support

I'm using an optical Microsoft Wheelmouse, 4.12 software, and WinMe. Lately, the pointer gets jerky after I clik on an internet link when I'm online. D/L'ing the data for a new site also seems to get slower as it is transferring data to my screen. Matter-of-fact, the pointer got jerky as I am...

My mouse and keyboard shortcuts are messed up. When I right click on the mouse and choose copy, when I try to paste it to another folder, my internet connection window opens as for me to log on 4 times. The keyboard does the same thing with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Any ideas how to reset the defaults so...

I have windows me. what happened was i try to defrag. the screen comes up, but the screen is white instead of having all the little squares that change color as the defrag goes along. then the perscent goes to 1 or 2% and then keepes starting over. i have 81% free space. all other programs seem...

In addition, you might want to shut down any anti-virus program you have, uand/u turn off both your screen saver and your energy saver. If you don't know how to do these things, let us know. Someone will guide you through it.

I don't believe he will come back. He seems a bit sensitive to criticism. Noel's written response made perfect sense to Noel, and to us who know him through this board, but Mr. Need Help didn't 'hear' the tongue-in-cheek way Noel made his point. He was not angry, from my reading, but...

Hi, Over this last few weeks I've noticed that my PC is losing time,ie. over a week it could lose a day. Is my battery going, is it difficult yo replace? expensive? does it have to be done professionally? Thats assuming that it is the battery. TIA Bob.