After my computer is turned on or rebooted, internet explorer automatically tries to establish a connection without the user prompting it to do so. How can I disable this? Thanks

I recently changed residents and disconnected and moved my Compaq Presario 5012US to the new abode. When I got it all plugged in and fired up, the screen went (moving left to right) from a basic pale blue about three quarters of the way across to a light shade of purple to a light shade of green...

my cd drive not reading cds it said there is no cd in drive with all cds that are put in any help will be greatful . robert kilpatrick

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Recently my display goes black when I am on the internet and click to close or expand a new window. It happens at various times and after it does nothing works to bring it back up. The power stays on but screen is totally black. Does anyone have any ideas?

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Hi folks. Here's one from left field. I'm having problems with a font that's used various places in Windows. For instance, it's the font displayed when you win a game of Freecell, that flashes YOU WIN!. This font shows up from time to time, and I don't seem to have it, so I just get those...

-----Original Message----- I'm receiving the following error; RUNDLL message: error loading C:WINDOWS\Bxxs5.dll System cannot find file specified Us this familiar with anyone? Thanks Ardis

one day there appeared a windows box for password, I started entering a name and password. Now i can't get rid of the windows start up for a password. I have to hit cancel to get past it. I've searched everywhere to try and un...what ever to get rid of it. Need Help!!!!!!!!

I am using Windows ME. I have seen screensavers that have text rolling across the screen on other computers. Is this something I can do on my system, or is it something I have to download from somewhere. And if so, where do I get it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to e-mail...

A workmate attempted to upgrade a friends compaq presario from ME to XP,after he had finished, the monitor display would not come on, the active light on the monitor flashed on for about 3 seconds then went back to standby. I have visited the Compaq website and attempted to reset the BIOS using...

I am thinking about to buy a TFT screen for an older PC on which a WinME resp. Win98 is running. Are there drivers available for these old WinOS? Or is the minimum Win2000 required to use TFT screens ? Gunter

Lodade ME into a P II machine and now I only have 16 bit color. Does anyone know if there is a driver or something that can be used to change to 256. It is on a gateway computer

Hi, is there a way to display a transparent menu with submenus to replace the icons on the display?

I recently purchased an Axim X5 PDA and loaded the sync software on to my dimensions computer that runs ME. Since doing this and running the sync, my icons on the desktop are messed up. The icon is the correct size, but the Font is very small and unreadable. Also the three gray boxes in the...

Hi, Just bought a cheap second hand computer running ME. The font used in all the windows and lists, everything basically, is in a different style than I'm used to. I would like to change it to the "normal" font used in XP and win98. ie; Community Newsgroups-Microsoft Int. Exp & tools edit view...

I have installed a few games in the past off the PC World disks, and run them without a problem. Then, when i reinstalled a game i haven't played for ages and run it, The game plays ok but the screen flickers hard out. It also seems to do it with a couple of other games ive tried to run. I when't...

How do I reset to active desktop back to the way it was? When I go in to display properties to choose a background the little tiny computer preview stays blank. It will only show bmp files. If you choose a jpg file and hit apply it will show on desktop, but the preview stays blank. Can someone...

When I installed Java 2 some things stopped loading on my homepage. Where there's suppose to be some animation or something there's just an X saying action cancelled. And it's not only on my home page but just about every page. Any clues? Thank You Beau