I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I...

My optical mouse works fine for hours, then the light goes out. Sometimes comes back on, other times it just stays off. Unplugging and plugging in regular mouse does not help. TIA Bob

You give no details of the applications that you have downloaded and wish to install. Remember that there are few free lunches to be had and the hidden price of many free applications is that you also install a sponsor program which then provides revenue to the author of the application as a...

Hi forum, As far as i am informed many are in favour of using the AVG (AntiVirus for free) After installing it, the PC was blocked and i did receive messages as not enough internal memory. Norton 2003 was still active and also ZoneAlarm My son using XP with Norton 2005 and ZoneAlarm clouldn´t...

For some reason my cabfile "bezier.scr" is missing, which is no big deal, but I would like to have it. When trying to extract it, with or without CD support, I get the error message "cannot open file" (null). Have no idea why not, but how could I obtain it? TIA. Harry.

This computer runs Windows Me. It was working just fine before being shut down and moved because of a new carpet being put down. When it was hooked back up and powered up it would progress to the Windows Me logo window and then stop and start the boot all over. Next up was the Safe Mode...

I have the oct 6 defs, but when I check to see if there are updates, AdAware runs to 5% and then issues the message, "Error retrieving updates" instead of "No updates available." Anyone else? richard

Any recommendations for a firewall that works well with a WIndows ME system? I don't mind paying a little if the cost is worth the added performance. -- Paul M.

OK.....forgot I had a different name on here. See what you have to do to post in Windows XP???? ROFL!! Heather/Figgs/Laynie "Laynie" wrote in message news:... I have an older version of Zone Alarm on my WinME machine and not sure what it is, but probably Version...

Uninstalled Norton Anti-Virus as recommended prior to loading Windows XP - now can only boot in safe mode and can't read CD drive to reinstall or install new operating system. Tried going back to prior settings - lost in space. Any suggestions? -- Nancy@Bellair

Had to reinstall Windows ME on new hard drive on Dell Dimension. Now Windows does not seem to be able to locate device drivers for 2 Blkin USB hubs, or a Maxtor external hard drive. These had worked fine prior to new hard drive. My HP printer, and Iomega Zip drive, which both are USB, work...

A friend has a Gateway G6-400 PC with a 400 MHz Intel Pentium II CPU. The hard drive is 13.4 GB (10.8 GB is free space). She uses it for ordinary office applications. It had one stick of 128 MB RAM. Today I installed another 128 MB stick. It was recognized, no problem. Any recommendations on...

Hello everyone! I hope you can help me with this simple doubt. If I´m not mistaken, there is an aplication, created by MS, that allow us to protect our folders with a password, avoinding others to open it. Do you know where I can get this application on Microsoft web page? Is it compatible with...

Two things going on here. 1. When I put disk in my CD-RW drive all it dose is blink blink blink with a yellow light. It will not read the CD. 2. Also when I try to format a new CD-RW disk I get a 000a8-0003-0006-0000 error msg. on this machine. I have went to the NERO web site and it said that I...

I keep getting an ATL error message that reads: Can Not Run Unicode version of atl.dll on Windows 95. Please Install the correct version. I have used adaware to see if that will help anything. There are all sorts of programs available for $29.95 and up. I am trying to find a free solution...

How do u put normal mode back on when ur computer is on safe mode

Think this is an Avira problem? And maybe a common difficulty/challenge/pitfall of AV programs with WinME? These CPY have been accumulating since replaced NAV 03 with AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic (date of Avira install assumed same as Avira program folder date: 27 Jun...

I use and like 98SE and was wondering what Windows ME gives a user that 98SE does not have. The system restore feature in ME is nice but can be overcome through a third party solution like GoBack. Windows 98(SE) has its own resource kit and I think that Windows ME does not have one. Windows...

Rundll32 runs randomly on my computer - sometimes it opens, sometimes not. IF it is open, and I try to shut down or restart, it just hangs. Once in a while I can shut down Rundll32 with ctrl-E and the shut down proceeds properly. Usually I have to power down and run scandisk on reboot. Is there...

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