Ive recently seen under system properties, performance, file system under Floppy Disk that each time the computer starts it searchs for new floopy drive. Ive tried to stop this with no luck. This laptop doesnt have a floppy drive. Is there a way to complete this within the BIOS or ensure that...

I received a CD from a friend, put it in the drive, and windows ME tells me cannot find autorun.exe. I tried renaming autorun.inf like someone suggested but Windows told me it is not valid. Is there any program I can download to take care of this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks, Jim.

Is there a place to DL Remote Control for ME? I use ME but want to practice with someone who has XP. To learn more about Remote Assistance, click Start in Windows XP, click Help and Support, and then type Remote Assistance in the Search box.

When password box appears in ME,pushing cancel bypasses it & system starts up. It's not like XP where you must have password to get in. Can this be changed to be like XP? Thanks D...

I have a HP Pavilion Desktop computer running windows me and ie6 with outlook express.When I go into my documents,my pictures, I use to be able to highlight certain pictures and be able to right click on them and then click send to mail recipient,and my email client would come up with the pictures...

I hope somebody can help, otherwise it looks like I'm going to have to back up 30GB of data, format my hard drive and re-install Windows ME and all my applications. When I open certain windows, both folders and programs, they are completely empty. For example nothing appears in the Control Panel...

I get an error message,"can’t update file %1 of %2", but when I went to search for the wininit.ini file to rename the file it wasn’t there. How do I replace the file? I have my the automatic update turned off my antivirus for now until I resolve this issue. Any help would...

Mouse not working. error message "windows can not load the file vmouse.vxd that loads the drivers for the device. Code 8" Can anyone help me out here? should i download the whole drivers or am i missing something? thanks.

Hi, I'd greatly appreaciate any information on the error condition "Windows Protection Error, System Halted". You're asked to reboot the system, to no avail, you come back to the blue screen with the same error message. The Microsoft Knowledge DateBase list several possibilities contributing to...

Windows Update cannot install KB896358 . Do you know there is any problem about it ? Many thanks.

EVERY TIME I START MY PC I GET A MESSAGE STATING PREPARING YOUR SYSTEM THIS MAY TAKE A WHILE. IT NORMALLY TAKES 20 MIN. PLEASE ADVISE.

=20 How do I reload Windows ME from the CD without losing all my :stuff"? I have been told it has to be from the DOS prompt, is that correct and = how is that done? Dave =20 ..

Hi: I ran AdAware today and it found the following: Alexa RegKey HKey_local-Machine:so Windows RegData HKey_users:Default|soft Windows RegData HKey_current_User:soft It also found 9 files which I deleted but I wasn't sure about the 3 above items. Thanks Betty

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Thanks Mike, I looked for the file "nohiber.txt", still unable to find it. Can this problem be fixed?

Hi I'm needing to start the computer in MS-DOS but can't remember how to do it! Any suggestions? I'm actually trying to run a scandisk & defrag on the computer, but despite ensuring all active processes were shut down the scandisk keeps restarting. I tried setting up a task at startup but that...

Hi - I just installed a new hard drive & all the software, etc. and when I turn the machine on, I get a popup that says "Enter Network Password" How do I get rid of this - I'm not on a network. Thanks very much. Cathy

Hi everyone Please help, for the last 3 days my desktop has shrunk into the middle of my monitor screen. Specs 15" monitor NEC Sync Windows ME Lots of room on free on C Drive HP Pavillon Computer I have a black border approx. 2" on both the left and right side of my

I bought a software package; installed it under Windows ME. Vendor insists it is compatible. But when I open the application, it crashes with the above error and closes. Any ideas please? I've applied all the relevant ME updates. Thanks for the help.

Upon starting my computer I got the message IFSMGR.SYS cannot find helper driver. System Halted restart computer. I restarted and now I can only get to the C: prompt. I cannot start in safe mode, I do not have a boot disk and I am about to scream Someone please help me.