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While trying to upgrade Windows ME to XP Home and while doing a scandisk, I got the dreaded BSOD with an error I am unfamiliar with. I searched the Knowledge Base to no avail and was hoping someone here could shed some light on it for me. OE:0028:C00335A9 Anyone have any clues?

I'm currently wanting to reformat a friends Compaq Presario 1800 Notebook, but he has lost his System Recovery disk. Is there a way to do a restore in windows and change it back to the Factory settings?

I am trying to open my windows help from start up menu and i keep getting an error message, saying unable to initialize and the it tells me to notify support with this number -2147143679. Can't find anywhere to notify support of it. Also am having trouble with some downloads not being able to...

I Just did a fresh install of ME, did all critical (and most of the optional) updates including IE6SP1 and WMP, then installed Office XP SP1 Standard. I cannot get office update to run. The activeX controls fail to load. As a check I tried to run the Symantec virus scan (from their website) and...

Couple of days ago, for no reason I could tell, deleted files did not show in the Recycle Bin. RB Properties allowed deleted files to go to RB, System Restore no help either. I searched this NG for initial guidance but only found part of one pertinent thread. The two BAT files suggested by guru...

Intel Pentium D 820 Dual Core Processor Clock Speed 2.8 GHz I intend to buy a new computer with WindowsXP Home Edition. I am bit confused about processor type. Any advice would be highly appreciated particularly about dual core processor?

I have 3 machines connected by a Netgear DG834G router to my broadband connection. A wired PC running on Windows XP and a wireless connected laptop also running on Windows XP show a noise margin of around 22db. A wired PC running on Windows ME shows a noise margin of around 11db. If I run the two...

Hi I'm having active x problems. I am trying to get into my casinos and I keep getting that i need to download the latest version of flash player, i have done this many times. It's in there . I also cannot run any virus scans because it says that either my java or scripting is not enabled. It could...

Out of the "true blue" from one time to the next and without any warning, the pc opens up with a blue screen, containing the following message(s): "While initializing device IOS Error: An I/O subsystem driver failed to load. Either a file in the \iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt, or the system is...

Another thread here reminded to ask about this: When Scandisk reports that it found errors and corrected them all, what does that mean? What kind(s) of errors? Serious errors or trivial errors? Am I doing something to provoke this condition? (I do NOT turn the computer off by simply punching...

After weeks of trying to save my ME system I gave up and reformatted and did a fresh install of ME. I have not yet done the IE6, WMP upgrades and I already have a problem. Update KB888113 indicates it installs properly on the update screen but when I check again for updates it's listed once...

Have tried everything. My system will not connect to my Panasonic Lumix Fz7 camera. It registers in the device manager (with red X through it) but in properties it says no driver files are required or have been loaded for this device. Clicking on "Update drivers" and specifying location for...

Hi Mike, Thanks to you I now know that Windows ME has a built in Compressed Folders feature and believe it or not I can even use it to zip and unzip files/folders. I wonder if you could validation an assumption I have made after reading everything I could find on Microsoft.com regarding Compressed...

Some days ago Noel Paton suggested this link http://castlecops.com/clsid-619.html for recognizing "EBBFE27C-BDF0-11D2-BBE5-00609419F467". It is stated as "BHO & Certified spyware/foistware, or other malware". Spybot, Adaware, HijackThis all are detecting and removing this, But upon restart it...

I am trying to help an elderly lady who has a computer with ME. She is not online and up to just a few days ago she could work all her programmes - Work, Office etc. but now a licence agreement keeps coming up and just won't go away and has jammed the whole system. It was registered when she used...

I have two separate questions/issues: What is the registry key that is edited to change PC owner and company? I'm working on a PC that was used to remote login to a company network, but is no longer used for that function. Now it won't remember my dial-up password (the window where I would type...

I have upgraded to IE6SP1 and the accompanying Outlook Express. I don't know if the problem existed before this update. IE seems to be working fine. Outlook Express starts very slowly. I have tried the fixes in Tom Koch's article "The Other E-Mail Threat: File Corruption in Outlook Express";...

Just a quick thank you to all the ME gurus, too numerous to mention. (I started to list names, but was concerned I would leave someone out.) Upgraded from ME to XP. But always had a decent-running ME machine thanks to the unselfish advice given by everyone here. Of course, I still check out the ME...