Try deleting the dial-up connection and then re-creating it? Crossposted to WinME General for their take on the problem, as it's really more OS-specific than IE-specific. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security Jerry wrote: AOL has a menu that gives me three choices for its...

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I am wanting to upgrade to the XP Home Edition, is it possible?? If not what is the next best to upgrade?

I am getting a message like this "mprexe has caused an error in KERNEL.DLL" when I start up my computer. I cannot shut down my computer properly and it keeps freezing up. Any ideas?

Look - I've had two answers to this query BUT the respondants have NOT READ THE POST. The operative word here is that NO as in NONE as in NADA programs are showing up in the tool. This does NOT mean that SOME of them don't show up... NONE of them show up. So trying to do a fix because all of...

I keep getting this pop up window that says WO.EXE has failed or is not working properly & will shut down & if I keep having problems to restart my computer. I've restarted my pc & it doesn't help. Can anyone tell me what I need to do or where to find whatever is wrong with this pc? Thanks for...

I have a boxed set of Millenium edition. I had previously installed it on my machine and it worked wonderfully. Through an unfortunate mistake, my Windows partition was rendered unusable and had to be reformatted. When I tried to re-install Millenium, the computer wouldn't boot from the CD. Since I...

when I start my computer this message apears c:/windows/system/mui/0412/sysmain.exe file appears to be corrupt. reinstall the file then try again. Dont know how to do that.My me edition came with my compaq when I purched it. My warranty is expired and compaq wont give me the time of day without a...

I followed the instructions given me by Mike Maltby step by step and got into safe mode using MSConfig; and Scandisk worked okay but Defrag stopped at 57%. When I ran Scandisk again in Normal it stopped at about 20% and Defrag again at 57%. Any further suggestions would be of great help. Thanks

Hi everyone, My windows ME pc has developed a 'Windows protection fault. Please restart your computer. System halted.' It was fine at 8pm Friday and Saturday morning, nothing. I have run through the troubleshooting article (273738) all to no avial. Safe mode works fine, my boot disk works fine...

Thanks to Noel and Mike I recently got rid of some nasties hijacking my puter. I got rid of wintools and superbar but I may have another. When I run ad-aware it usually brings up a couple characters called "other" and "doubleclick" When I do a file search there is not much on "other" but there is a...

I am having huge troubles with my computer! Yesterday i noticed that a program called "wscript" was running. It was never there before. I tried to delete it and i comes right back no matter what i do. I tried running my virus scanner and it says its not that. But it just has to be. Can anyone...

hi i have a major problem in my system, nothing seems to be working properly. first of all explorer has caused an error in Unknown explore will close now. this is the message i get everytime i start IE. and i couldnt use it, it closes if i press the error message. if i open control panel i...

I can't seem to delete 2 items listed. One is WebRebates (by TopRebates.com) and the other is Web Search. I figured it's because I incorrectly deleted the folder in Program Files before using the Add/Remove Programs procedure. When I try to delete either of them it shows: ERROR: Could not...

Please help! I've been getting so many error messages of late, and my burner software doesn't work so I decided to uninstall IE6 and then install WinME over itself. Oh, what a mess. A required .DLL file, WINSPOOL.DRV, was not found, is one of the errors. Another is error loading powrprof.dll....

Spybot always reports that "6 additional protections possible" after each immunization. Even after an update, and an immunization, the next re-launch of Spybot and immunize reports the same "6.. possible". Anyone else notice this with WinME? I've recently noticed this happening on...

Whenever I start Tea Timer resident, provided by Spybot S&D, this Aureate/Radiate is activated: (EBBFE27C-BDF0-11D2-BBE5-00609419F467) I fix this using HijackThis, Spybot itself and Adaware but it comes back if Tea Timer is started Is Tea Timer himself became infected? How can I sort it out?

Hello. In news of EleFun Desktops you may find one interest moment. "EleFun Desktops glad to inform that 80 Animated Screensavers and 80 Animated Wallpapers was updated to version 5.07. In this version we fixed all bug and errors." If any body find any bugs in products you may contact us from our...

Is Mart still there? I just looked at the Google archive and I see back in '01 we argued; I expect that was our first exchange. I expect I could see if Mart was still here if I searched - but then I'd have to go to Egham and kill Delboy. g