Anyone know of a good, easy-to-use registry cleaner for WIN ME? I have heard conflicting advice about RegClean-- some say it's OK to use on WIN ME, but at download.com, it does not list WIN ME on the list of compatible systems. Please advise--thanks.

I have Office 97 running on a windows me machine. Been using the Excel for months on this machine with no problems. Suddenly started receiving "excel has caused an error in excel.exe. if you continue to have problems please restart your computer" error out of nowhere. Error comes up when I try to...

I have saved photes in a folde rand I want to arrange them my way but the computer will not let me. I can arrange by date, name etc. and auto arrange but not manually. When I try to arrange them the way I want it just goes back to the organal arrangement when the folder is closed. Is there anyone...

I tried to email a file zipped in WinMe compressed folders. Btools.exe zipped as Btools.zip Gmail refused to accept it on the ground that this zipped file contains an .EXE file since Gmail does not allow EXE files. Is there anyway to send the EXE files via GMAIL? I thought the Zipped (.ZIP) files...

Ref: Wordpad Problem thread started 1/28/2005 17:16. Mart, I finally got around to trying your last suggestion: snipHowever, as a final WAG, try extracting a fresh copy of wordpad.exe from WIN_17.CAB in the Widows\Options folder and put it on your desktop. Then try running it from...

Hi, I was getting the error message that MSOE.DLL could not be loaded when I tried to open outlook express this morning. I checked the address book as answers suggested and it was not installed (I do not know how this happened). Anyhow, when I go to install it, it still cannot find the .bmp or .chm...

After upgrading to IE 6.1 and some more Microsoft Me critical updates cannot see hierarchy of folders under windows explorer even when folders option is selected (folders side in window is grayed out and does not show folders). Thanks

I installed a CD burner (Sony CRX230AD) which included Nero Express 6. The burner works but any of the diagnostics in Nero are very very slow. It takes about five minutes to detect drive speed. I'm running WinME, 128M memory, 20G HD w/14G free, 700MHz P3. Is the software, Nere Express 6, too...

How do I correct this? I need to go back and install these updates to make sure I haven't missed anything. It was an update in August of 2004. I don't remember which one. But I have been having problems with my ME, and maybe this is why. VickiB

My sound was acting goofy, so I thought I'd remove the driver and then reinstall it. Well, I removed it, but now it appears the driver itself was removed from my system! There's still a "PCI Multimedia Audio Device" listed with a BIG yellow question mark in my Device Administrator, but I can't...

Hello ! I having a bit of trouble with updates. Its happened a couple of times today. The first time the message appeared only twice and then windows continued to load. Just now, it went on for pages and pages on this message and I was just about to give up on it when lo and behold it finished and...

Has anyone had any experience installing/using the Firefox browser on ME. I am just looking for general opinions and feedback. Most importantly, I am wondering how stable it is and whether IE can coexist without any issues. Thanks in advance.

The updates download and the site says the updates were installed but I need to restart the computer. When I restart, I get an error message "Windows could not upgrade the file %1 from %2 %1: %2" I consulted the MS knowledge base and found article 283069. It says to search for the wininit.ini file...

Does anybody know how to retrieve OE files without opening OE? My OE has crashed and, among others, I have lost the address book. TIA

I had to reinstall my Windows ME operating system, and now want to update using Windows Update. Everytime I have tried the computer locks up and says that it is not responding. Please help! Thanks every so much!

The new AOL (surprise surprise) ran roughshod over our ME operating sytem and I want to restore the system to an earlier point. Unfortunately, halfway through the restore the computer reboots and has a message that the system could not restore to that point when it finishes rebooting. Is there...

I know it must be simple answer: when entering data in a spreadsheet for Windows ME and I depress "Enter" key to return to Column "A". It goes to only "Column B". Thanks for your help

Hi to all, Recently i downloaded some games from a website. When i installed them, and then tried to open it a message poped up and said the following-"Could no find any compatible Direct3D devices. This sample willnow exit." It is really frustrating since i spent forever downloading them and now...

Works is missing from the programs files. I have tried to find works in files and folders,not there.I have tried so many things I cant remember all of them sorry, I need help Thanks.

After a reinstall of ME system files, windows will no longer see my zip drive. It says : USBNTMAP.SYS not found and USBSTOR.SYS not found When I search for the drivers I get the message: The best driver windows found is already instaloled on this device AND it gives the...