Prior to going online with my Comcast broadband connection, I've had problems with my various versions of MW CW. I had somewhat of a similar problem about 1 1/2 years ago which I rectified by reinstalling Me. When I substituted the old registry, I would experience the same problems. Therefore, I...

A friends computer keeps coming up with a kernel32 caused a error in wtoolsa? The little I can find (not on MS site) says it is adware or spyware? Can someone help me on getting rid of it for them? thanks

To all with the desktop problem (not being able to access files or "my computer" on desktop): replacing the current desktop software with the newer Java stuff worked perfectly and solved my problem within minutes after previous days of frustration. Go here and look on the top right...

My CEO's laptop from Dell has WindowsME installed. It is rife with bugs and trackware. I want to just wipe clean and reinstall, but.......She lost the startup OEM discs. Dell doesn't have replacements, Microsoft doesn't have replacements, the CEO doesn't want to buy a new OS and Office suite when...

Here's the deal. I can skip memory count upon boot up process by tapping the escape key. However, as soon as I get my OS to load (Win ME, nothing exotic) the computer no longer recognizes the keyboard or mouse. I can see the mouse has power, as it's optical, and lit up. I did mess with the BIOS...

I have seen the posts wtoolsa, but, I have not seen anything on how this is contracted. Does anyone know how this is being distributed?? Heirloom, old and don't want it

http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=19226 Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Security, AH-VSOP _________________________________________ Security Tools Updates

I have a Gateway Computer which came with Helpspot already downloaded. It has been real handy in answering questions. On the bar at the top of the page you can click home,index, and etc. for more answers. Home and the other choices are still there but somehow when I click index now, it won't open...

Error message received today was- VMM (01)+000097E2 Error: OD: 0028: C000A7E2 Also past errors recv'd- OE:028: C002F74C Windows error has occured. Error: OD:0028:C00A7E2 Explorer has caused an error in SHLWAPI.DLL Explorer has caused an error in unknown SFG41EF.DLL Any assistance would be greatly...

New monitor for PC. It is a TFT replacing a CRT - but I think that is not the issue - although drivers might be. MS Reader was already installed and running and in use on PC. With the new monitor, on opening Reader, the front screen is fine, but all subsequent screens are both upside down and in...

Spybot S & D detected "DSO Exploit". What is this and how do I remove it? Your help highly appreciated. Thank You. L Tan

I recently installed a 2nd hard drive, copied the drive as new boot drive; set new drive as C: and old drive as D:. Problem is... I ended up in DOS Compatability mode. Is this because there are 2 bootable drives connected? (As long as only one of the drives is connected -- performance is...

I used Wordpad's Search and Replace on a bunch of input files and now my app is gagging. I've been told it's because Wordpad inserts formatting into the text. Is there any way I can strip out the formatting left by Wordpad. Any help would be tremendously appreciated. Thanks in...

I'm helping a friend with his ME. I'm savy on XP, but not ME. His OE doesn't start, the popup says msoe.dll missing. I've tried to fix that and still OE doesn't open. I've read the lengthy process at MS on reloading OE and it surely looks too complicated. Can I just rerun the setup of ME on...

WHEN I BOOT MY NOTEBOOK I RECEIVE THE MESSAGE: INVALID CODE PAGE SPECIFIED. OPERATING SYSTEM IS: WINDOWS ME. LOCATION: GREECE DURING THE INSTALLATION PHASE OF "WINDOWS ME" I CHOOSE GREEK LANGUAGE. ANY HELP ON THE AFORE MENTIONED PROBLEM IS WELCOME.

I have an EZ firewall that keeps asking me if rundll32.exe application can have permission to access the internet. A few questions: a) what IS a rundll32? b) should it access the internet and c) why? As a user rather than a computer expert, I just want the thing to work! So why is it these...

I have received this from one of our Senior Club Members, can anyone assist please? Hi Joe A problem with recently installed Outlook Express 6. I find " jpg " attachments being blocked as being a potential virus. Why jpg I don't know as I thought these to be relatively safe. The attachment bar...

trying to get critical updates for my system. hoping that will help with all the shutdown problems i have been dealing with. every time i click to get critical updates, i get a blank page with "done" shown on the bottom. should i just bag this ME and get XP or is there more i can do? using...

If you've installed IE6 (SP1), you do *not* want to reinstall WinME without first removing IE6 SP1! -- WinME-specific newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsme.general ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP Are You Ready for WinXP SP2?

I just had a new motherboard & processor put in this thing. Prior to that, there were "Explorer has caused an error in ...." various different messages. Now supposedly this PC was loaded with an updated version of Windows ME, and now with every start up, there are quite a few "Explorer has caused...