Any one had or heard of any problems using PCTools Registry Mechanic on Windows ME? Tks, RTS

i wrote to you last week and cannot find my original message scan disk and defragmentr not completing their job. (with a baby and toddler and study please forgive my delayed response). thankyou for your response. i did try what you said, i.e. doanload a recommended scandefrag program file and...

I am running a Windows ME OS. When I attempt to reboot my computer it hangs at the ME logon screen, but when I go back and reboot I can use the step-by-step option and have know problem with hanging. And even sometimes I try to shut the computer down and it hangs as well. How do you advise. -- Paul

For nine months now I have been using WinXP Home SP2 on a Sony home computer. For about five years been using WinME on the other. My XP runs on a 3 Ghz Pentium 4. My ME runs on an 800Mhz Pentium 3. Here is the puzzler - benchmarks show the P4 running at least 3 times faster than the P3. But in...

Hello, I am using windows ME OS. Now that microsoft is taking its old junkies to scrapyard, i thought it better to ask. Why isn't there any aministration tools provided in windowsME OS like the ones(i read in a book) with windows2000. There is no aministrative control which i can look forward to,...

Couple things: 1) After I sent the message below, I had a heckuva week and did not have time to check in but a couple times. Someone sent a reply, and I intended to offer thanks for that; but this morning, the reply in not showing up in my mailbox! SO... to whomever, I thank you for...

http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=19654 Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Windows Security, AH-VSOP Security Tools Updates

Hi I've been puzzled for some time as to why the multitude of third-party utilities that report CPU usage can be divided into two distinct groups: those that report LOW values and those that report HIGH values. (E.g. on my computer when lightly loaded, Process Explorer sees CPU usage as typically...

I tried to download and install 816093: Security Update Microsoft Virtual Machine (Microsoft VM), it took one or two seconds to process and came up with a message in red text to re-scan and install. I tried four/five times but no vain. While with "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6...

I've recently done a clean reinstall of Windows ME on a Dell Dimension 4100 using a Dell reinstallation CD (PC and CD are six years old). I'm looking for the least error-prone way of reinstalling the critical Windows updates. I would prefer a procedure that can be used after Microsoft drops...

Well, they're called "intermediary" definitions whatever that means. Alias

Hi, (Im using Win ME as unable to find Win 2000, under Windows (Older Version) I have Windows 2000 installed, and need to register / unregister several dll's Is there a quick way of doing this? When I right click on Dll's I have no Register / Unregister option, unsure why that is?. If I do it via...

In April I installed Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 SP1 and the KB911562 and KB912812 updates. Since then the colors displayed by my browsers, both IE Explorer and Firefox, and also other programs (e.g. Adaware) have been flaky, inconsistent. The appearance is what I have been used...

Whenever I start Tea Timer resident, provided by Spybot S&D, this Aureate/Radiate is activated: (EBBFE27C-BDF0-11D2-BBE5-00609419F467) I fix this using HijackThis, Spybot itself and Adaware but it comes back if Tea Timer is started Is Tea Timer himself became infected? How can I sort it out?

My computer suddenly started displaying an error screen with these letters at the beginning....VMM and MSCAN. I have run a complete virus scan and it came clean and have tried a system restore....no luck. It does start in safe mode at this point, but I decided to just do a total system recovery,...

since last "critical update" many error messages oe and od etc also shut down problems latest wdmaud(06)+0002BD1 error od 0028 FF0D73C1 and kebugcheckex called by C0029e58 error code 44 parameters dff81890 will not shut down completely - need to turn off machnine also start up disk scan detects and...

Have you tried highlighting the email and deleting it? Turn off your A-V's email scanning, it's redundant since its just added layered protection. Silj -- siljaline

I got a used computer so I could install Win 98 and run my favorite old flight sim. The computer had Windows ME on it. When I run the uninstall program, an error message says "Unable to locate the installation log file." Do I have to format the hard drive to accomplish this?

You will find the link for Kerio on the left menu. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/kerio Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Security, AH-VSOP _________________________________________

Hi everybody When I go into My Documents, not all of the files shown display their file extension. This is particularly true for .pif files. Even right-clicking on the file, and bringing up Properties, shows absolutely no information about the file extension. (I only know it's a .pif file because...