After booting up the password wndow comes up - how do I get rid of this? The system crashes on shutdown - gets stuck on the desktop screen minus the icons. Defrag won't work - gets to 2% of checking disk for errors then keeps starting same process over and over. Thanks for any help you can...

I am looking for recommendations on software to password protect my PC at the operating system level. ME does not have this capability. It is not avaiable at the BIOS level (only protects from BIOS changes). Anybody have any suggestions? The cheaper the better. (My job moved to China without me)...

a search engine has hijacked my brouser called smart search and i cant get rid of it and i have lost microsoft search panel any help would great

On my Windows ME PC Explorer shows the 31/2 inch A drive as a 51/4 inch. I don't know when this started, I formatted a couple of weeks ago and it was okay then. Any ideas on how to fix it, I have tried uninstalling it in Hardware Manager but when it is reloaded it is still the wrong one found and...

In my Device Manager, I have the following ? marks 1/ HCFmodem WDM - Conexant PCI Modem Enumerator The modem has the following markings on the chips - RH56D-PCI // R6795-12 // E 65212.1 // 0033 Hong Kong 2/ Sound,video ....controllers - MPU-401 Compatibile MIDI Device (Looks like the sound card...

Every time I log in to Windows ME, I get the mysterious error message: "7082808388.tmp has caused an error in Windows Explorer". I can still use my desktop if I move it to the side, but it is a nuisance, as it does not let me use the End Task option. Someone please help me with this!!

I cannot get my 802.11g card to install on ME. Error msg indicates the install software is looking for file "BCML5.SYS". I've searched Microsoft site for the file or other help without success. Anyone have a suggestion

i've asked my grands to assist but ? what next Q. how to install or is it already? where to find answer...please help. thanks.

i keep gettin an icon next to start button sayin, macli . I then get message saying unknown has caused an error in unknown. unknown will now close. can any one help please.

I have infected files within my temp folder. The folder is 12gigs LaRgE. Is it vital that ALL of the backup files stay in the folder OR is it ok to delete them if I'm not worried about restoring to any point before ToDaY? I'm asking because the folder is taking up so much space and I figured...

I've just extracted a bunch of infected files from this ME (which was already unstable before-hand) Now I don't have the speaker icon showing up in the system tray anymore. When I go to Control Panel l Sounds and Multimedia I double click and nothing happens at all. I hit the other icons in the...

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...

I have copied my full version WinMe disc to my harddrive with folder name \Win9x. Often times when I install something new (probably hardware), a window pops up asking for original disc or where such & such a file can be found. In this case I point it to \Win9x on my harddrive and everything...

anyone seen my post spybot? J

hi,, has been a while.... recently i got msg from spybot to instal version 160, but after the prelimarys while installing, i noticed lots of 'wing-dings and chinese or korean stuff',,,, i cancelled immediately. i d/loaded it from a different site, and while installing, noticed the same at the...

Does anyone know how to change the background color in Windows Explorer Slideshow from black to white?? Thanks. Barb

Karen, Should I make reservations at Fort Bragg for check in Thursday (4/26/07), check out Sunday (4/29/07)? I would make reservation at Best Western. Tom

It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it worse when some new crap inserts itself there. A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately, and I'm not sure if I should blame...

Hi all.. I have been using Windows ME for about 4 years now without a problem and like it alot.. but I'd like to use a different browser besides Internet Explorer. I seem to get lots of error msgs on it now.. and more recently an "Operation Aborted" message, even during something simple like going...

Hi,,,I need a little bailing out. I just reformatted and reloaded WinME, (a Dell version) One of the problems that I've run into is in Explorer,,, (rt.clicking on start and choosing explore). It doesn't shows the "folders" view. Normally, you could see all the folders, drives etc...on the left....