I am having trouble reinstalling ME on a compaq computer. First thing I did was Format c:. Then after a couple tries at a regular install I defaulted to the extract all .CAB files and run setup /c. Doing this everything went fine until the last 13 minutes of the install. During the driver setup...

I've come across the following dilema. After installing, from purchased CD, Borderbund Click Arts I see a few disturbing things. 1. Free AOL is added to desktop (ok, it's bundled software and I can remove this). 2. Review of Belarc shows two critical updates disabled. UPD323255 UPD811630

Recently my 4 year old desktop would not go into Windows and gave a white on blue message: "WHILE INITIALIZING DEVICE SYMTDI. Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. System halted_"flashing underscore. I manually removed all SYM/NAV software. Same result without the note on...

Hello, I have a number of folder shortcuts on an active desktop. I wish them to always open in a window of a preferred size. This would be a larger/deeper window than the 'default one which appears to be 'classically small'. I have tried maximising them. I have used "Shift" on closing the...

I have been at this problem for a solid two weeks, tried everything, and got nowhere. It seems that you can set up a Dual or even Multi boot with every Windows O/S product "except" Millennium Edition. You don't even have the option to "Shutdown to Command Prompt" in any menu. I need to use...

I have just had a warning message that I am out of disk space (Laptop, HP Armada 1750, 4GB) on checking I find that in my _RESTORE folder is one labelled TEMP which is 1.5GB. I can only see it using the TREE utility, not with Windows Explorer even though I have checked the hidden files option. How...

Hi There are three users on my computer. To switch from one user to another, the "new" user name must ALWAYS be typed in as the InputBox always comes up with the name of the previous user inserted. (Note that none of the users uses a password). Is there any way to avoid having to type this in by...

Now that MS has pretty much ceased supporting WinME, where can I download the updates/patches? Once a year, I like to reformat my drive on the laptop and reinstall WinME, which now leaves me vulnerable, as I have no patches/updates to reinstall! My laptop is a Pentium 266, so XP or Vista is out...

i would like to install windows millenium on a computer but i do not have the product key from the box it came in. How can i install this without the product key? Thanks Ruby

Hi everyone, I need some help here. A friend brought her gateway computer to my place to see if I could fix it and when I startit up it asks me for the product key. I tried using the system restoration cd but there is no code for the cd. She said that when she had bought the computer from Gateway...

Hello, If the computer clock-time is in error what effect would this have on a system. How close does clock-time have to be to actual time for any given zone? Help appreciated. Ben.

After upgrade from 98SE, my floppy is identifed as "D" drive... still recognised as a floppy. Clicking on "A" in My Computer or Explorer freezes everything. I cannot reassign drive letter in Device Manager. I am using a USB floppy on a Toshiba Portege 3480CT notebook.

I am running eMachine etower 667ir Win Me intel celeron processor 667MHZ 64 MB of sync DRAM 256 MB Max 3D AGP Graphic intel direct AGP First I caught trojan horse download.keenval.e,c and b

I have just upgraded my motherboard & processor, formatted the hard drive so I could have a totally clean machine. However I now have a problem ! my version of M.E. is upgrade and reqires confirmation files from my 98 second ed. but my 98 second ed was supplied on the manufacturers recovery disc...

-- Hi Group, My computer has a problem whereby when I plug in my printer or any other device it stalls at "updating hardware information". I reinstalled ("overinstalled" as I don't have the motherboard drivers disks - only a recover disc which doesn't help if I had reformatted the disc) Windows...

I'm helping my neighbor with this problem: The screen goes to an empty gray screen after a registry/configuration error message that says to run SCANREG to correct the registry error. Is there anything I can do from this empty screen? I would appreciate any help simce I'm really a novice trying to...

I have a computer set up to dual boot ME or XP. The ME hard drive (primary) had to be replaced, and I had to reinstall the system. Is there any way to set it up to dual boot without having to re install XP also?

Hope someone can help my curiosity. A friend has run Window ME (which was an upgrade from Windows 98) for several years but over the past few months he had problems booting up. He would get requested for scan disks several times, it would hang up, etc. My son and I took a look at it and also...

I am trying to reinstall WinME on a computer after a hard drive crash and I no longer have the documentation that contains the product key. The company that built the computer is no longer around so I need to know how I can obtain the product key. Thanks.

While trying to install Me on a Gateway solo 2500. I have tried everything offered from Microsoft on this issue. Perhaps there is someone out there that knows a trick or two.