Hello. I have borrowed a notebook computer from my education institute. It comes with a dial-up account but I'd like to use my persisting broadband connection of my desktop computer (with Win 98 SE and Win XP Pro installed). The broadband connection is 'always on'. (It automatically connects to...

Security Update Cd Expires. Keep Your files backed up. I was doing a clean install of an os and found this out. You can still use those files on the cd, If you can figure out what goes with you operating system.

Hi, My computer has a hard drive that has about 20 GB of memory, of which 15 GB or so was empty up to last week. Something went totally wrong with one of the DLLs that affected both Internet Explorer and AOL Instant Messenger (I don't remember which DLL and I don't think it's important to my...

message pops up before i can log on: task scheduler service not running , run task my defrag goes to 0 /scan disk stops does not complete / pchealth also not running . until I click Run.I recently upgraded my NAV2001 to NIS2005 Upgrade. prior to this I had no problems with task scheduler.

During startup, I get this error message. Lucomserver has caused an error in Kernel32.dll Lucomserver will now close. How do I go about correcting this?

I have been receiving the following error message since 12/17 consistently when I am using Internet Explorer (especially when trying to check my hotmail account): "Explorer has caused an error in MSHTML.DLL. Explorer will now close. If you continue to have problems, try restarting your...

Windows Me system with 1Gig Ram. Only loading Symantec Internet security, Counterspy, and a clock program. System is very slow and resouces available stays arround 42%. I have multiple (3-4) instances of Kernel32.dll running. Any ideas as to what is causing this? Thanks

http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=11054 Regards, Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Security (AH-VSOP) __________________________________________

can any one tell me what this is?? -- OEM hardware component Thank You, Michael Van Middendorp

How do I Create and delete profiles on a machine running ME? TIA B.W.

Mike, I doubt the patch you mention would help me, but using nVidia drivers on my old TNT2 Model 64 display adapter so maybe it would. Tried installing newer drivers a while back but with no luck so went back to original drivers (as best I could). One problem remains - which may have nothing to...

Have an old copy of Windows Me, but I can't find my manual with the authenication code. Is there a way to get a new one from Microsoft without giving up my first born.

I just tried using the magnifier feature and my taskbar just got thick and I can't adjust the size. I already closed the magnifier but the taskbar is still fat. Usually I can adjust the thickness by dragging the top of the taskbar. But can't seem to do that. Do I need to unlock or something to...

can someone tell me how to reboot safe mode.

I was recently told during the qualification for mp10 download, that my xp version could be pirate. I need to downgrade to win 9x (98se), and would like to know if it can work with the Athlon XP processor. I tried to use one, but keep getting a message in defrag that I do not have enough memory,...

Starting a new discussion. Seemed to lose the details in the last post. the error message I get when I run msconfig ... "unable to synchronize the environmental variables in the windows registry with the environment variables in the legacy files autoexec.bat and or config.sys"

At startup the error message: Validation failed for C\windows\system\vsinit.dll Any idea of cause and/or fix? Thanks,

Hi I have a workgroup with XP , ME and 2000 PC's . The Me PC has the shared HP2100 printer but the XP PC's have trouble printing. I have shared the printer but cannot see it shared in network neighborhood , only my shared folders are visible. Some PC's all 2000 and 98 can print to it . One day...

Just a short note to say a big "THANK YOU " to all the MVP'S and anyone else who help out in these Forums for their sound advice and patience. Looking through the Forums as I often do each day you always come up with some cure for a problem,and I have found lots. The best one of the lot was today...

for clarification (i hope) I just downloaded from window update both kb890175 and kb811630. kb890175 appears in my View Install Hx. but the kb811630 appears in update catalog in view download hx. Q. is there a difference or do i need to take an additional step with either. why doesn't kb811630...