On start-up, and shut down, an unwanted picture, originally from a web site, temporarily appears on screen for a short time, then goes away. It started after I right clicked this image and mistakenly clicked on background. Any way to correct this? Thanks for any help.

Help please?? I had to restore my windows ME,and now that its back the display looks as if it is in safe mode,it does not have safe mode in the bottom left corner.I'd be glad of any assistance Thank you.

I'm getting very tiny fonts in several programs. For example, in Windows Mail, the From:, To:, and Subject: look like this: http://home.comcast.net/~paralyn/Misc/TinyFont.jpg Where do I set the size of this apparently system default font? - Bill

Can someone who uses Win Me please send my the wav. file of the Utopia Asterisk? Thanks!

Mike Maltby. I followed your instructions step by step and got into Safe mode okay using MSconfig; and Scandisk worked perfectly but Defrag stopped at 57%. I then came out of Safe mode and went into Normal and ran Scandisk again and it stopped at about 20%. Defrag also stopped in Normal again at...

Hello, I have never had this problem with m Dell E1505 laptop....it has a wide screen display and Windows has always displayed with the correct aspect ratio. all of a sudden it is only using a standard amount of screen real estate to display the image, with vertical black bars on the sides. I've...

Friends never seen this one before. On a fully updated, fine-running Windows ME system, with Active Desktop "On" and a colorful personal picture as background, the screensaver just died a few days ago, and even though it is 'on' does not kick in. I can force it by doing the "Preview" function...

On right clicking the mouse I don't see the "New" option and hence can't create a new folder or document. It's a hopeless deadlock ! Also, my existing folders are not opening on double click. When I am right-clicking on them, I am seeing two "Open" options; one is working and the other is not...

My screen blacks out after opening a certain webpage. All other webpages display fine. Does anyone know what might be causing this? After screen blacks out it won't come back until I restart my system (Windows ME).

'ello For some unknown reason, the icons displayed in my quick launch toolbar are now pink. I note that even when booting up, that portion of the screen (before windows loads the toolbars, it has a pinkish hue in that corner of the screen. anybody know whats going on here? thanks

Hello, I am hoping thatsome one could kindly please help. Upon start-up, I get to my wallpaper and then that is it. It just hangs there and you cannot see any icons not eeven my task bar or START. I will get a dialog box to close program "devldr16". But I cannot end task and close this program....

I just wiped my computer, and brought it back to the way it was when I got it. I bought it from a friend and he doesn't have any video driver cd or disk for the graphics card. I loaded windows Me on it, and the display sucks, it only will let me use 16 colors, with a 640x480 screen resolution. I...

my color is stuck in 16bit i get message spool32 cause error in MMSYSTEM.DLL any ideas on fixing this.

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...

can I download IE8 if I still have Windows ME?

Hi, Windows ME Taskbar is twice as wide as normal. Can anyone please advise how to get it back to normal width. Right click in a spare area on the taskbar does not work. Thanks in advance -- grobbers

does anyone know what might be happening when WORD won't open?-message saying that there isn't enough memory/scratch disk full--there is plenty of memeory, it crashes when I try and open as well. Any thoughts? Thanks

I'm trying to copy an Icon from one application shortcut to another on the Desk Top and in the Start Menu. Can't drag & drop the Icon from one PropertiesShortcutChange Icon window to another. And, can't find the Icon's file location. I've looked through the Icons in \WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL...

Something went wrong with the pictures in my "My Pictures" folder. They are being displayed as icons instead of thumbnails. The icons that are displayed are those of the programs that I have tried to change the "Opens With" screen to. I am curious as to what the original setting is for ME, so that...

I have worked out that the drivers and software that control the Display (in Control Panel) need to be reloaded. I have not been able to find a way where I can reload this part of the operating system.