Hello, I need to reinstall the operating system and need to know how to format my hard drive. Obviously, I am not a sophisticated user, but I have reinstalled ME before but can't remember how I formatted the hard drive. Any help is much appreciated. John

"current security settings prohibit runing Active X controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display properly" what are the safest settings for Active X? Currently I am set at medium on security. Also, is there a way to enable Active X for a particular site? Thanks

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've just installed ME on one hard drive and W2K Pro on another. My question deals with drive letter configuations. Both Drives are Western Digitals. Drive 1 is 13.6 G. Drive 2 is 80 G. Drive 2 was partitioned into a pair of 10G drives and one 60G drive (numbers rounded). When I boot up into...

Hi everyone, I need some help here. A friend brought her gateway computer to my place to see if I could fix it and when I startit up it asks me for the product key. I tried using the system restoration cd but there is no code for the cd. She said that when she had bought the computer from Gateway...

I have a machine that came preinstalled w/ WinME. Is a rollback to Win2000 possible without creating damage to currently installed programs etc feasible. I know a clean install is always the best option, but again want to know if the rollback is possible. TIA

My neighbours son had a new game for Christmas, went to put it on and the computer said, not enough memory, so in his haste to get this game on he went into winme folder and deleted a file. Now we can't get the computer to load up past the password page. I have tried to load in safe mode, but...

Is it possible to partition my HD, reinstalling WinME on the new partition, then shift the program files I have on the HD over to the new partition and finally remove the old partition? Or am I just dreaming? I just hate taking it somewhere and getting every program and file I have on it removed...

After failure to install WinXP, I wanted to revert back to Winme. I was able to boot the computer by startup disk. there are the options of HELP, Start computer with CD-ROM support or without CD ROM support. The computer fails to start with CD ROM support thus I cannot install Winme. I have...

Hello, I am running windows 98 and wanted to upgrade win Me because I have done so on another similar computer without any problems. When the setup program starts and begins by checking free hard disk space, I get an error saying that "setup needs more conventional memory to run". I looked at the...

Hello, I am trying to upgrade from win 98se to win Me, but when setup starts it errors saying that it needs more conventional memory to check the hard dish space. I tried removing everything from msconfig and start in safe mode and adding rem to everything in autoexec.bat and config.sys and I get...

We have WinMe on a desktop and Win98SE on a laptop. Neither PC will boot up without stopping to demand a Windows password. This means that we can't go off and do something else while the machine takes forever to start but have to sit there and await the message. Is there a good way to get rid of...

Hello, In msconfig my startup group is pared to: ScanRegistry SystemTray AVG7_CC AVG7_EMC AVG7_AMSVR Run StartupMonitor

i have a siemens PG same as laptop with german win me and i want it to be changed to english win me may you help about this problem i will be gratefull

how do I delete unchecked entries from the startup list. there are over 50 entries but I'm only using 12. Van

Hello, My PC was infected with a virus,despite having up-to-date virus software, and I needed to completely reboot my PC from the system recovery disks. I use Windows ME. Since then, my email downloads to my PC to OE from Comcast (Default) with no problems. However any mail I try to received...

Hello, This is a question I have about my system as it presently stands. Unsure of what maybe relevant to the reader I offer this: I have an Intel Celeron II 633MHz CPU on an Asus P3V4X Motherboard (1 ISA, 6 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DIMM). Chipset Via VT82C694X Apollo Pro 133A. RAM 384MB (SDRAM). 2...

I'm running windows 98 and i recently tried to upgrade to windowsme. I know that the disk is good (as i used it to upgrade my laptop). however on my pc i get an error message SU0410. There is a file missing or corrupted c\wininsto400. The other suggestion is that there is not enough space, but this...

i'm trying to load windows me, but when i get to the "checking installed components" i get a su0410 error - c:\wininsto400\msdxwin.inf missing/damaged or not enough memory. 1) What is this file? how can i re-install it from my windows 98 cd 2) when it says not enough memory does it mean memory on...

I know that you can slipstream service packs into NT based OS's but can you slipstream IE6 SP1 into a windows ME disk or any of its hotfixes? I already have a CD that I have programmed with all the updates for verious versions of windows, I just want to see if i can have the install process go...