The machine hangs after all activity seems to have ceased and the screen is black. However the hard drive continues to run. I have checked using Bootlog.txt and found that two items have failed on start. They are "viagart = failed" and "smartvsd.vxd". This problem is a result of having to...

Prior to installing SP2 in XP Pro when I opened Instant Messenger my hotmail account also opened and I was able to see any new emails I had gotten. After SP2 only messenger opens and I have to use the URL separately to open Hotmail. Is there a way to get both to open again at the same...

Hello there. Is there any way that I can take personal information like mail settings addresses etc. from my old computer to a new one.

I am having trouble with defraging and scanning C drive because a program is causing them to repeatedly start over the process. I want to find that program and stop it from running. Thank you for your time! :)

This message appears when I startup my PC. loadqm has caused an error in QMGR.DLL........ Any ideas as to why this happened or what the solution is! Thanks, Donal

After performing a clean boot in windows me, I sill get error msg. system halted while initializing device PGCPC. Could someone tell me what is device PGCPC? And what doI do next?

It seems the accents and the quotations marks are set to a French keyboard mode. I am running Win Me and Office 2000, looked in control panelkeyboard and programsMicrosoft Office Tools International support but was unable to get the keyboard to turn into US layout. Anyone?

*A fatal exception OE has occurred at 0167:BFF86EBD. The current application will be terminated. Press any key to terminate the current application. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart... Press any key to continue...* What is the cause of this exception and how can it be remedied? It was accompanied by...

AM RUNNING EZ FIREWALL + -AUMagic TRIES TO GO ONLINE ALL THE TIME-WHAT PROGRAMME IS THIS

Does anyone know of a way to change the background colour of the Taskbar? I can change most other things through Display Properties but not this.

#1. I have been receiving an error that states;wuauboot has caused an error and will now shut down." It doesn't always come up though. #2. In the past 2 weeks, I am unable to access my Hotmail account. When I get to my inbox, I can see what messages are there but I am unable to access them. I also...

I don't have a password saved (that I can recall) and I keep getting a prompt to enter my name and password. I then simply click "Cancel" and it starts up fine. How do I get rid of this question prompt?

Hi. I couldn't find a group specifically for outlook express, so I hope someone here can help me. When I try to launch OE, I get the error message: Msimn has caused an error in MSOE.dll. Msimn will now close.

Need Help Please : Microsoft WORD " not responding" and OE FREEZES I open my OE mail, then open the Word attachment, so far fine. Then I try to copy the text of the word doc onto another email from OE that I am about to send.... that's when 2 things happen: 1. my OE FREEZES 2. and it say

When I try to boot my computer, I get a windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. System halted. While initializing device PGCPC. could someone tell me is going on with my windowsme?

Windows will start in Safe Mode but will not start in the Normal Mode, I get A error msg. system halted. Can someone help me with this.

For no apparent reason, after working successfully for mucho months, defrag will not progress beyond 10% complete. Any ideas what the problem may be.

I have a W2000 Pro machine, of which I want to share the CD drive, so I have shared it with the sharename CD. I want to use the drive from a WMe machine, which does not have any users configured (so, I suppose, there is a default user). I don't want to configure users on the Me because I don't...

The Scan Disc identified damage in the boot area of the C drive and confirmed repair. After the Defrag had gone through about 4% of the drive a Window came up saying there was damage and the Scan Disc need to be run again.I did it and the process keeps looping.

Hi All, Suddenly I have been getting this error when I try to insert in-line images in email: Error: 195 'undefined' is null or not an object MS's KB says this about that... =========================================================