I asked about this problem last night in the windowsupdate group but realized this may be more the appropriate place: Each time I try to install DirectX 9.0b, it says the install was successful but after I restart and then run dxdiag, it still says I have DirectX 8.1 installed. There are no error...

I presently have Windows 2000 Professional, Windows ME. I would like to up date to Home XP but need to know if this will hinder my use of Access, Excell, Powerpoint and Word? Will I lose these features?

I'm considering upgrading my OS from ME to XP. I went to the Upgrade Advisor a few weeks ago and ever since then, my Hewlett Packard Photosmart 2410 all-in-one printer stopped working. I tried uninstalling & reinstalling the HP software several times with no luck. I think something with the...

Cannot install Norton Antivirus, says there is a previous install or uninstall, need to restart system. After restart says cannot update files. What can I do?

I purchased a computer from Dell, a few years ago, came in with windowsME, for my son use in college. It is still running fine that i am using it right now. He did not like windowsME, upgraded to windowsXP, using a unlicensed CD. My issue is that i can not do windows updates due to could not be...

When I try to get into Skysport Broadband I get an error message - error signature msnetobj.dll 7.0.0.1440 offset 0000 3a8b 91. Can this be overcome? Thanks

Lengthy, for which I apologize. Following the MS KB891711 debacle I noticed while inspecting the accumulated log produced by ScanDefrag that MMTASK.TSK was also not terminating when ScanDefrag ran (the other was KB891711 itself). MMTASK is not in the startup list but Process Explorer always...

I have installed the "Cumulative Update for IE6SP1" six times and the windows automatic updater again says that it needs to be installed.

Hello, I would like to know more about the items presented for monitoring. The significance of the values displayed and the reliability of those values as shown by this tool. A pointer appreciated. Ben.

Recently my Toshiba Satellite laptop has not been working consistently. Whenever I switch it on it boots up to the Windows ME screen and then freezes indefinitely. I have to then switch off the computer and then it restarts in Safe Mode. Any suggestions as to what the problem may be? I have...

myy husband uninstalled them now our telephone can't recieve calls, computer still logs on but the phones a mess

Can anyone tell me how to stop this error message from coming up every time I start up my computer? error message: Explorer has caused an error in ~5151535358.TMP

My sound was acting goofy, so I thought I'd remove the driver and then reinstall it. Well, I removed it, but now it appears the driver itself was removed from my system! There's still a "PCI Multimedia Audio Device" listed with a BIG yellow question mark in my Device Administrator, but I can't...

I just received version 5 of ZA pro RC wrote: Noel, I'm using the free version of the update. (5.0.590.015) RC "Noel Paton" wrote in message

WHEN I CONNECT A UPnP DEVICE TO MY COMPUTER, I GET THE MESSAGE "UPDATING HARDWARE INFORMATION DATABASE - PLEASE WAIT. i WAIT BUT NOTHING HAPPENS, AND WHEN I CHECK BY USING CTRL-ATL-DEL THE MESSAGE I GET IS "UPDATING HARDWARE INFORMATION DATABASE - NOT RESPONDING". i HAVE TRIED MANY TIMES BUT ALWAYS...

A few days ago, I was having trouble with my computer. After a day of frustration, I had a computer tech to work on it. After an hour or so, he reformatted my hard drive. During re-installation of ME, he discovered my back-up ME CD was bad. After a few more hours, when we believed we were to...

I was emailed a very important xls file which I realy need to access. I downloaded the excel 2003 viewer but when trying to install I'm told that I neen a newer version of Windows. I still run Windows 98 and have no plans to go to XP yet. Can anyone suggest how I can possibly open this file? It's...

i formatted my laptop.. sadly i lost my recovery cd.. now i can't use my internal modem, XP haven't detected my internal moded as well as my audio card? worst i lost my installer for both hardwares..

I just downloaded Adobe Reader 6.0 and when I attempted to open it I got the error message: Unable to load unicows.dll. What is this, where do I get it and where does it go?? Thanks!

Is there a good spam filter compatible with Windows ME. I'm getting deluged with spam. Ralph