does anybody know if windows ME requires a directory with a name "_restore" to be present on the hard drive and if it does belong in fact the normal size of it. The problem is that, this directory is taking up 8gb of 10 gb hard drive. and it obviosly doesn't look normal. Thank You

Get the following error message when booting up ; Diagent has caused an error in PFMOD.DLL. Diagent will now close." Is this going to give me a problem with anything? If so, what do I do? If not, how can I get rid of the message? Thanks

I cant get ME to do a normal shut down. I have just reformatted my hard drive and reloaded 95 and ME over the top of it with all ME updates downloaded. When I shut down the comp. it goes to a blank screen with a curser and will not do any thing else I then have to hit reset to shut down, then on...

cant access compaq recovery cd so cant reload works. no longer able to open dozens of .wps files. cant find a wps viewer anywhere only word and wordpad.no good .HELP.

Can I install XP PRO PLUS on a machine that has ME already on it without any conflicts? ME is not compatible with a internet software package I use professionally.

I I have recently switched to dsl which may have nothing to do with this problem, however that is all that has changed recently in the environment. I received this error msg on the last reboot: VWIN32(05)+0000206E : OE : 0028 : C02A5246 I am wondering if one of you astute professionals would...

I am unable to start up paint...everytime I do it brings up an error "Mspaint has caused an error in MFC42.dll and paint will now close". Can someone please help me find out how to fix this error. I have searced the Knowledge Base, but nothing really fits the description and I don't know where...

How do I stop programs like Quicktime, Creative news update etc from running on startup???

Whenever I turn off my computer (Millennium Me) and attempt to restart my computer (power on). The windows Millennium Me screen appears, but rite after an error message screen appears (it reads). An error has occured. To continue Press CRTL+ALT+DEL to restart your computer. If you do this, you will...

How do I repair this problem

I have installed a DVD Burner on an old Compaq, but cannot get any of several dozen DVD player downloads to actually play a DVD in that drive (it is a commercial disk.) DVDPLAY.EXE tells me I need to install a DVD Decoder, but none seem to fit both WinME, my Processor speed (750 MHz AMD Duron, my...

To make this quick, after I installed a new ethernet card, windows crashed, told me to re install windows me. Re installed and computer would not start normally or in safe mode. Hard drive was sent to data recovery. Only 7.4 GB out of 23GB has recovered. I recieved a list of files. My confusion is...

whenever I open internet explorer it goes to a search website and not the home page I have designated, and when I click on links it often goes to the new wepage and not to the link. No matter what I do I cannot get it to change back to my previous setting. I think it might be some kind of spyware...

I have Windows 2000 Professional ME and keep getting an error message saying the operation does not have enough memory to complete, and that I must close some operations to perform. The only task I'm trying to do is paste some text into a notepad doc and there are only 3 operations in the systray...

I can't seem to get this program to stop running. Do I need this program and what does it do( simple terms please)? Any help would be great, thanks.

WindowsME. I am unable to do any Critical updates and found this solution he http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;283069&Product=winme says to rename wininit.ini to wininit.old but my system has no wininit.ini file. I believe this is my problem. Wondering how to get this...

Please help. I ran a system restore and when the computer restarted it did something to my NAV program. I attempted to uninstall/reinstall without success. Now I get these 2 messages: "Error starting program: a required .DLL file WINSPOOL.DRV was not found" and "RUNDLL: Error loading powrprof.dll...

Mike I tried what you said but when I try to extract the winspool.dll file I get the error message "the spcified file is protected and may not be copied over or deleted. I also was unable to get any info from MS support using KB 265371 Help

Since running a system restore I have had a load of issues. Symantec says I have to uninstall/reinstall NIS. I have been getting the following error messages so what do I do first and how do I do it? 1. IExplore has caused an error in Kernel32.dll at 08f:bff8elad 2. Application error: SUWIN caused...

I downloaded the Critical Update Service Pack for Internet Explorer 6. Now I cannot get the Folders Explorer Bar in Windows Explorer. It comes up grey and blank. The other Explorer Bars work .... Search Media and Favourites ... but not the Folders one. Please can anyone help via email .... above...