I have a Dell Dimension 4100 running Windows ME. The processor is a Pentium III and I have 128 meg of RAM (which meets the minimum system requirements). I have installed the software, and the wireless card per the Linksys instructions. The card does not show up in device manager. The linksys...

I have a XP sp/2 operating system. A while back my Drive search stopped working. I would enter a field or a file type to find. The system would go into a busy status and then return absolutely no results. I can not figure it out. Does any one have any ideas???

I updated my compaq laptop from windows ME to windows XP. I have an external hp cd-writer. First off XP doesn't like my cd-writer, but it allows me to use it. about 6 months later...my internal cd/dvd rom will only play dvds. I've tried re updating my computer to xp and the internal cd/dvd-rom...

A friend of mine gave me a soundblaster sound card (don't remember the model right now)for my HP Pavilion computer running ME. I installed it, and then had no sound. In fact, the computer does not recognize that it is even there. Since it does not recognize it, it won't load any drivers either. My...

I had a virus infection that caused two (2) files c:\windows\system\MGRS.exe and C:\Windows\System\led.exe to become infected. I also had to delete c:\Windows\system\scchost.exe. I deleted all the files and the Virus problem went away, but now my CD/DVD drive will not work. How can i reinstall the...

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Hello, I used, for four years, the Linksys (vers.1.42.00) and as a Firewall only in tandem with a rented Terayon Modem with no problem whatsoever. I upgraded the router firmware in Jan'04 to 1.46.00 - no problem. After a recent six week period of off-lineness (a respite) I renewed my account with...

I'm trying to install my digital camera driver on my computer. When it goes to load it says "The file USBNTMAP.SYS was not found". Then it says to copy files from D:\autorun\winme. When I put my Windows ME disc in and press the OK button It then says "Set up could not find file on specified path"....

I am trying to get the mouse to display on my screen. I have reloaded windows and the mouse driver....yet I am still unable to see the mouse. I have also tried a known working mouse. Any suggestions?

This tape drive was working properly in a Pentium 1 running Win98SE, using MSBACKUP. I've now moved it to my new machine (AMD Duron 18GHz) running WinME (upgrade installed over Win98SE). The tape drive appears OK in Device Manager (it's sharing the floppy drive cable). I also installed MSBACKUP...

A few days ago my brother went to install a program onto our computer only to find that there is no longer an E or F Drive in My Computer. I have a Compaq Presario 5BW284 5000 Series. I do not know what could have brought this about. Any help would be appreciated.

I would like to know the difference between windows 2000 and xp filing systems if at all there is any.

Hi, after replacing original 20 GB HDD (4200rpm ATA-5) by a new 40 GB drive (ATA-6 interface) Windows Me crashes on disk I/Os when larger files are to be copied. This prevents ANY installation of major SW. (Smaller packages do work, it happens when 120MB files are involved). Win Me...

Hi-The last few days I have been receiving the message- Windows found new hardware on my computer-but it does not list the hardware. It asks me if I would like to do an automatic search for a better driver or specify the location of the driver. I hit automatic search-then it says please wait while...

Ok, I just got a new computer from a friend and I didn't want all of his junk on my computer, so I put the reinstallation disk in. I get the following message: "Cannot find SYSTEM.INI. Boot with Emergency Boot Disk and type SCANREG /RESTORE" Obviously, I don't have an emergency boot disk. Any...

i'm using windows2000 professional,reduced memory was the big problem to me,but when i came to know the reason i felt very happy, if ur system has this problem no need to hesitate, it's not a problem at all, 32mb/16mb of ur total RAM being used by video memory, do the following : step 1. display...

how do you permanently delete files from your computer?

Is there a way to upgrade USB 1 to USB 2? Any software that can do that?

Has anyone managed to get the above working? My older 802.11a card is faster and more reliable than this one and their support is appalling - suggested that I should purchase another card if this one was not good enough. Any help would be appreciated otherwise it will be appearing on EBay...