How do I remove unused desktop Icons when using Windows ME

Minor irritant. On startup Dell logo and any text open small and centered instead of full screen. Began out of the blue. Can't find fix.

Can anyone please tell me if there is a fix to this issue? Thank you!

Is there any good free anti-virus software available, to download? If not, guess I'll just renew the McAffee, that I have now.

all of my buttons have changed in Windows ME. The restore, minimize, and close buttons have changed into a O, 1, and r. All of my checkboxes have changed too. On IE, the button next to the BACK button has changed to a 6 Any help on how to change them back would be appreciated

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put a new computer together,got a new motherboard,processor, DDram and tower. used the old hard drive,CDrom and floppy. formatted the hard drive and installed Windows me ,everything works good,tried to upgrade it to XP it says setup is coppying the files necessary for XP, then it says Windows is...

I've uninstalled all kinds of things that are still on my startup menu. I know that it doesn;t matter because the boxs aren't checked but the list just keeps getting longer and longer, Can anyone tell me how to clean up my startup in msconfig so that it only shows things that are actually installed...

I am using Windows Me. It crashed while I was using the internet explore. After rebooting it, the symbol marks were changed to numbers and Greek letters. At the top left corner, "_, square, x" for "minimize, maximize, close" were changed to "0, 2, half size of 0(?)". This half size of zero may be a...

Me again. Had to use the rescue disks and now the screen display is grainy, like its in safe mode, but its not. Also boxes etc are not lining up properly but off centred and not sitting/fitting right, and there's too much info on the page, so I have to scroll sideways back and forth to read it. ...

Hello, Many months ago I lost use of my sound card (Device Manager shows the yellow exclamation mark). I also found that everytime I boot up, my USB mouse won't work unless I remove it from Device Manager, then unplug and re-insert it. Also SCSI controllers have yellow exclamation marks and can no...

When I changed the resolution to the highest amount the screen went blank and then read "can not support video mode" Because of blank screen I cannot change it back. Tried restarting and going to the F 11 screen but did find anything there to help. Any ideas?

Hi, For some reason I can no longer use my toolbar QUICK LAUNCH. Every time I click on the toolbar view Quick Launch I get an ERROR MESSAGE: "Cannot Create Toolbar." My "Quick Launch" folder is still listed in "C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\" so I don't know what's...

Is there a way to hide all icons on the desktop? Thanks

Interested in knowing how I could arrange a few icons on the desktop besides in the regular left view. For instance, these days there is so many different programs to run for spyware, virus, spy, adware and on on .... in XP I know that you have a hidden bar that once you move over displays a few...

Hi, I'm having some trouble with WinME. For 4 years, no issues. My desktop icons 'were' scattered (logically for me) all over my desktop. I boot up a day or so ago and they automatically all lined up alphabetically starting down the left side. Updated and ran Norton 2004, Spy Bot-Search & Destroy...

I've recently updated internet explorer/outlook ezpress to version 6. Now the folder tree pane is empty, when I launch windows explorer. Does anyone know how to display the folders in the left pane. I have a big sign above my computer that reads "Don't make it better". Boy am I stupid......

I installed a pop up stopper and Spybot and after that my display is on 16 colors and the lowest resolution and I'm unable to change it. I tried everything in the trouble shooter but I can't fix it. My system restore doesn't seem to be working either. I uninstalled the pop up stopper and Spybot...

My thumbnails for jpegs are not displayed when i click to view them. i can open the images but i cannot see htem for thumbnails, others like tiff and bmp are fine! can someone help me sort this out?

error NvQTwk missing entry: NvCpl Daemon upon boot up I have know idea what this means or is related to or how to correct it. Any suggestions?