WinMe is creating Automatic Shortcut of every action i take and even browsing the folders. All these Shortcuts are placed in C:\Windows\Recent folder. Any help to stop WinMe to do this?

Reformatted my harddrive and now some files are missing. Files not found: USBNTMAP.SYS USBSTOR.SYS MSPQM.SYS I was asked to put in the Millennium disk, but never had one. Using a HP computer. Paja

II can't view the files in the recycle bin. I'm not sure if this is only recycle bin, or if there's more to it, but for a while now, the recycle bin has come up empty. I've already tried to do everything to try and fix the recycle bin to show the items, but it still doesn't help. I've gone to...

Can someone tell me how I can get (or create) a blank screensaver? TIA for any advise, Bonnie

When doing a partial restore,(going back a week)lost the System Restore on my programs menu.Can I get it back?

Hope this gets thru.......but just finished trying to clean up my neighbour's computer after his 20 year old was home for the weekend and left him with Zlob and Smitfraud and a gazillion other things. Do I rightly recall that someone on here said I could not get into Safe Mode with a SATA...

Help! I have tried the F8 approach with Opt. 1 for NORMAL MODE, but it keeps opening in SAFE MODE. How do I get out of this? Thanks... and Happy New Year!

Did you know you can add the Control Panel to your desktop? Right click on the desktop. SelectNewFolder. Right click the folder and select Rename. Type this exactly as written: Control Panel. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} This will put a Control Panel icon on the desktop! I thought...

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Is there a boot log somewhere in Win XP? If so where is it located? I need to find out why my computer is taking so long to boot! Thanks Ron

Every time I try to start a PC with Windows Me, I get the following error : "MSGSRV32 has caused an error in KRNL386.exe" the computer then freezes up and doesn't let me do any thing. How can I fix this problem? Thank you

When I run the Windows Explorer program, in the left pane, I get a "Search" view in the left pane if the Search button is depressed on the tool bar, I get a "History" view in the left pane if the History button is depressed on the tool bar. However, if the "Folders" button on the toolbar is...

WDIZ0TE7 is the name of a file that says it is an IE file that I can't seem to delete. It is always in my temporary file when I clean up the disc. I send it to the recycle bin, but it keeps coming back. Is this a trojan or virus or what. How do I delete this file? I'm not very computer inteligent,...

WinMe Pentium 3 256 ram . Ages ago, Mike M discussed a way of preventing system restore from monitoring certain files (in my case, trendmicro) to prevent unwanted items in backups (thousands of files for the real-time scan) but I can't find it in the archives. Could anyone point me to them or,...

I have Windows ME on PC. By mistake, I added some software that was meant for XP or 2000 systems. Now, I going Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Errors -- Abnormal Program Termination. I am assuming that some of the files that were loaded overwrote the ME files with XP or 2000 files. Is there...

I have opened CD's before but I just inserted one and nothing came up and when I went to "Start". Please help refresh my memory and tell me how to open the CD. Also, where will my reply appear? Thank you.

Through a typo in network wizard, I have an incorrect network name = defined. How do I remove the unwanted network from network neighborhood?

Another file in "My Documents" that I don't know... "ZbThumbnail.info"... Can I safely delete this file? Thanks, Eileen

How do I upgrade myself to system administrator on my computer? That's what the people that make the game I'm trying to install tell me to do. Alternatively, they tell me to delete it if I'm already installed.

Fo three days now when I open computer I get the message ----- Motive directory has caused an error. Motive Directory will now close. Then my computer crashes and I have to switch off illegally, Please can someone help me.