People, And I know you are out there, I read the entire post from this chap about DMA and his PC. Now, he was the original poster, an he must have had 20 replies. Unfortunately not one of them was his, nor was I able to follow logically what happened. So, here goes:

Hello I have inherited a computer. It was one of a redundant batch of computers given out to employees of a company that were changing to XP, and she gave it to me. She said it had been wiped disked and there is a CD with it that has "ME CAB files" written on it. She said it was company policy to...

Ccleaner is now updated to v1.28.277 - 1.40MB (1.37 actual) http://www.ccleaner.com/ -- Delboy A common mistake that people made when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The first attempt (after a reboot) to access Help says the "Help failed to initialize." It gives an error number of about 10 digits and says to report it to Microsoft. Subesquent attempts hang with a busy cursor, but WinTop reports no activity. Attempting to close the pgm by clicking on the X gets...

I have two separate questions/issues: What is the registry key that is edited to change PC owner and company? I'm working on a PC that was used to remote login to a company network, but is no longer used for that function. Now it won't remember my dial-up password (the window where I would type...

The MVPS HOSTS file was updated http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download: hosts.zip (109 kb) http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS file http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File - Frequently Asked Questions

There's a new update out today. Joan

X-post to WinME General. In the future if you feel the need to reinstall WinME again, uninstall IE6 before doing so to avoid having this problem again. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User) clive wrote: Brilliant...that has worked a treat...that was a very...

Hi everyone! Currently I just have IrfanView to download pictures on my Win ME computer and had never encountered an exception before with IrfanView. Have received a set of pics that IrfanView can not open. The file type is: *aplication/x-zip-compressed.* The file size is 5412KB. Any...

Hi, When I am using windowsupdate then it seems to do everything correctly, even the history shows 'succesful' installation. When I start update again then there is no change. it says one critical update available or something like that. When I check it out it comes again with KB837009 to...

Hello group. Pardon the off-topic question, but I trust the great advice given by these ME experts (most of whom have probably upgraded to XP anyway). My questions. Have an older Dell Dimension 4300, P4, 1.6 MHz. Upgraded the ME to XP Home, and downloaded SP2. Everything worked fine after...

http://msmvps.com/siljaline/archive/2005/10/17/71303.aspx Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Security, AH-VSOP _________________________________________ Security Tools Updates

When using internet explorer,I get an error in mshtml.dll The archive file is same version. I have update IE 6 SP1 installed. I am reading all the error info on MS site now.

Hi. My pc will not let me change the settings, which is driving me crazy. I need my pixels set at 800x600, from 640x480. I know HOW to do this, but after re-starting, it just reverts to the 640. This happened about a week ago. Please don't suggest system restore, because hasn't been working for...

I replaced my CD-ROM with a CD-DVD COMBO drive, made by Samsung and supported by german software, as I understand it. Installation was flawless and it works beautifully, with bountyful features, including backup. When I checked my SR, I had lost my System Check Points and the C_Restore folder's...

Anyone know of any antiviral software that will run on Win9x operating systems with 128mb RAM and a 500 GHz or less Processor? Increasing the RAM on these systems is usless because Win9x systems cannot utilize more than 128 MB. I've done clean installs of the Win9x Operating Systems and all is...

Whenever I run Scandisk (I need to because I cannot Defrag as I am told there are errors on the disc and Scandisk is recommended) after about two minutes I get a box telling me that Scandisk has restarted ten times because Windows or another program is writing to this drive. I have no other...

Running Win Me dial-up connection, IE 6.0 When opening IE thru ISP(PeoplePC.com), the dial-up network flashes in the tray bar, I click on it and it reads that another program is dialing the selected connection. There are no other ISP's. All settings for IE, modem, dial-up and OE are thru the...

Hi all I have recently installed Norton Antivirus on my system with which i found loads of security risk trojans etc on my machine which i have now cleaned up, now everytime i now start my PC i get an error message saying 'Missing ibm00003.exe, unable to locate file' and am now unable to get rid...

A while back, I switched to cable for internet access. Upon hooking up the cable modem, every time I boot up the computer I get a keyboard failure message. However, both my keyboard and mouse work fine. This is only a problem when I want to start my computer up in safe mode. Then, I am...