I have recently encountered a problem where my system (running Windows ME, with the latest updates) is slowing dramatically. When I check the programs running, I find multiple instances of "lexplore" running, sometimes as many as 40 to 50 instances, which is sucking up my system resources. The...

The following message is displayed every time I start my computer: Microsoft Networking A network error has occurred. You might not have access to some network resources. I have a home computer that isn't even ON a network. Any suggestions as to how to clear this message?

In the volume control dialog box(es) in Windows ME, I cannot un-check the "Mute All" checkbox, the speaker icon in the taskbar is red-slashed out, and there is no sound. All appears okay in Task Mangler, yet there is no sound. This has happened before, and I fixed it by running system restore,...

When you right click any folder, let say desktop, there will be an option "new" and following some option for you to create new folder, shortcut, and various of files. But my "new" option is gone when i right click destop or even folder. Any help? thanks in advance.

I'm running my screen at 1024x768 and whenever I open a "normal" sized window, it takes up less that 1/4 of the monitor. How do I resize the "normal" window size to what I want?

I have downloaded a file (EXE) when I run a message appears: "Not a valid win32 application" How can I run this? Farhan

How do I delete no longer needed applications listed in the "open with" list. When I right click and choose open with, I would notice that in the list there are some apps. listed that are no longer on my computer and not needed. How do I delete these applications in the "open with" list?

After installing Norton AntiVirus, "Open With" is missing from Right click Dialoge box... How to fix?

I have windowsME. I can't run scandisk or any Norton disk utility because every few seconds the utility restarts with this message. I've tried stopping every service I can think of. I read once that there is an indexing subtask that might be causing the problem, it indexes files and folders to make...

Say does anyone know how one can get rid of a W32-Trojan-Delphi from the above and replace the files without visiting your local shop and re-installing.

Can anyone advise me if and how I can set the default folder destination when I choose File/Save or Save as..? Generally I always choose a certain folder but have to navigate there via many rarely used routes. Thanks.

I am a Windows ME user (still). I recently am unsuccessful in being able to search for anything using this function...you know, start, search, files or folders. It does not appear to be searching at all. Any suggestions? Thanks much. Bonnie in NJ

As of today, my 'Send To' facility seems to have gone a little wacky. Of the 8 shortcuts listed, only the one that "Send Shortcut To Desktop" is working; all others have stopped. I downloaded a supposed registry patch to fix it, but to no avail. I've reinstalled two of the programs listed,...

My hard drive icon looks like there's mold growing on it. I have run disk clean-up, scandisk, Windows Update and the defragmenter. I have updated my Norton anti-virus and run a virus check, but the "dirty hard drive" icon is still there. Does anybody know what's going on?

Here it is, WINDOWS there are no spare stack pages. It may be necessary to increase the setting of MinSP's in system .INI to prevent possible stack faults. There are currently 5 sps allocated. Please elaborate, and advise MT

Beginning yesterday, whenever I attempt to Shut Down the process locks-up an shows a message saying that the file "suchostp" is running, then asks me to continue with Shut Down or cancel. I found the file "suchostp" in the Windows\System folder, but couldn't delete it because of a message...

Hi, I just got rid of a Trojan horse, so every time I sit down at my computer, I check the start up files in msconfig to make sure the Trojan is gone for good. During one of these checks, I found a brand new file "svchost.exe" which according to the time stamp, was installed while my wife was...

i continually get the message "system is busy". then the entire system freezes and I must reboot to get any thing going again...can anybody help here? thanks

When filling out a form I hit "tab" to go to the next field. Today when I hit tab my computer switches to any other running program? Any ideas? -- -PSA271

Whenever I start up my computer (Windows ME), I get the same error message "The Planner Calendar is not installed". I click 'OK' and the message goes away, but it doesn't give me any information on how to fix the problem. Aside from that the computer works fine, but every time I turn it on, there's...