After upgrading to windows Me from windows 95 I have now lost all my colours and only have 16 colours on display and a screen size of 640 x 480. I used to have over two hundred!! Any ideas??

I have been given a Dell desktop running ME which I want to clean up and donate to a charity or needy person. It is apparent that the hard drive should be reformatted and Windows ME reinstalled. I have the original Microsoft CDs for Windows ME and all the other programs that were factory...

Is there a key shortcut for closing all running programs shown on the task bar at one time?

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I have ME installed on drive c and dos on drive d how can I have my pc boot to a boot screen so I can chose which os to boot to. or how can I have it boot to dos all of the time. Thanks Brian

I have Windows ME for the last 7+- years. Someone installed Microsoft Office 2000 on my computer. I would like to uninstall it properly. Microsoft Office has nice programs, but it is way too expensive a program for me to keep up with. I have let it just sit there and ignored it. Now that...

i installed norton antivirus 2004 profesional (trial version), i found that the program made my computer 'hangs' so i wanted to uninstall it, but i can't find the uninstall button ,then i right click the file and delete it .strange thing happened afer that. my recycle bin name has been changed, it...

I have windows Me, and whenever I use Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the task manager, it shows about 5 or 6 processes that are a bunch of random letters and then 07 at the end of it, like abgestt07. I can click on them and 'end task' and they'll disappear, but they come back with the next reboot. ...

i read the requirements on what it takes for xp i know i have all of them but it said you would need a modem with a speed of 14.4kbps how do you tell what speed you have i have a dial up ips. could you give me some info on this. thanks

Windows ME is saving lowercase file names (test.html) as all uppercase file names (TEST.HTML). It even changes xyz.doc (an existing file) to xyz.DOC. My website server thinks TEST.HTML is different from test.html and FrontPage 2002 wants to delete test.html. It is really messing me up. I seem to...

When I try to cut my computer on, I get a message that reads "EDO memory was detected in Socket 1 nearest the audio jacks. Strike the F1 key to shutdown." Finally, after about ten tries, the computer powers up normally. Any idea what this is? Thanks -- bob

I have a Compaq Presario 5006CA that over the last several months has slowly been acting up, i.e. rebooting after shutdown started, locking up after shutdown started, system freezing for 30 or so seconds while surfing the net and, most recently, video display problems. My video settings were locked...

I am having a lot of problems with the Shell32.dll Anytime I try to open IE or maybe open folders, from searches. I just get the error message that ---- has caused an error in Shell32.dll and will now close" Does anyone have an idea where I should start trying to fix, I have reinstalled ME...

I running Windows Me how to get rid at any times some of those unwanted icons in the system tray to be displayed....Thankyou

I checked Windows Update and it indicated that I need to get .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1. I selected install now and it went through the download process and then started the installation. Very soon into the installation the following message appeared in a common language runtime debugging...

Hello everyone I´ve been having some problems since I´ve installed a new Anti-Virus + Firewall +antispyware program. When I´m using the program, sometimes shows a blue screen with an error message and a code and more often, I get a small black window on my desktop, saying that " AVTASK has...

One of my machines is running on WinME and I'm looking for a very simple and free firewall to block inbound traffic only. I don't need logging or any other whistles and bells. I've tried the allegedly stable 4.5 version of Zone Alarm but it created all kinds of problems with other software so I...

I was told by my credit card co. that I need to upgrade my A. Reader from 6.0 to a newer version. I see that they are offering the 7.0 reader now. My question is: Do I need to uninstall the 6.0 reader first?? Or does the 7.0 just replace or go on top of the old one? Thanks

When I click on the start button, the message "Explorer has caused an error in SHELL32.DLL" comes up, the screren refereshes and everything except the volume control disappears from the system tray. There is no way of getting the start menu back. I looked on the knowledge bas but couldn't find any...

i got winme OEM and i lost the restore disks and was asking is there a way to reinstall windows over it self Via the OEM cabs