iosubsys problem lol Didn't really know how long the thread had got as I tend to only keep my ng posts for a couple of days g I find "NoelDP (at the pub)" so informative. -- Mike

I may have missed it here as I'm normally at the WinXP group but there is quite an uproar going on over the January Spybot updates. Apparently the update has caused scan times to double as a minimum for most users and extend to hours for others. A quick check at the Spybot website shows that...

Yesterday after an apparently normal close down, next time I re started, the computer went into scandisk "improper shutdown", but with the thorough option dotted, automatically fix errors ticked and all options greyed. SD went through about 3/4 of the bars, then checked some 28,600 sectors,...

I am new to this site and quite inexperienced at computers and need help.The last seven updates i've received have not installed and I am told thats the start of my problen. I am trying to install a HP 7210 printer and unable to install the software. MSFT has not helped .HP says I need to get...

Hi there, My 6-year-old Win ME computer was happily running some ISP supplied AV and firewall software until the ISP upgraded it to a newer version which is no longer supported on an ME system. They no longer issue or support the "old" version as it was with a different company. So, I'm hunting...

Hi there. My computer just got busted somehow (for lack of a better expression), and I need some help to get it back on track, if that is even possible. What happened was that one day I rebooted it a few times in a row, because the ScanDisk program kept freezing, and when it came back on: - the...

I have Windows ME for the last 7+- years. Someone installed Microsoft Office 2000 on my computer. I would like to uninstall it properly. Microsoft Office has nice programs, but it is way too expensive a program for me to keep up with. I have let it just sit there and ignored it. Now that...

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Crash report appeared, even though it didn't crash, on two computers ... it didn't address the memory usage either. Alias

Hi, I was reading up on the difference between BIOS & CMOS, and think I now how a grip on it, but I am wondering why the cmos/config program uses ram instead of rom? Wouldnt this do away with the necessity of the cmos battery? thanks for any enlightenment.

I've changed by printer for an HP, and I'm told that the DMCOLOR.DLL file is missing. I've got a Windows Me system preloaded, that fille is not there. Can anyone help me in this?-- cogito ergo sum

Hi Good Folk! So glad you're still here :o)) I see this has been addressed very recently but I've a new twist: Yesterday--while removing a puzzle file I'd erroneously saved in the Windows folder (I'd made it from a desktop wallpaper '-)--I found three hundred and forty eight empty "fff...

I'm forwarding this to WinME General newsgroup via cross-post so you can get the best advice, Mike. It doesn't sound like an OE problem. -- ~PA Bear MikeA wrote: I did NOT reinstall WinMe but I did have a problem with RESTORE and corrected it by Microsoft kb 283069 method 2 ( reinstall ?...

The previous time I restored an ME computer I could not install KB912812 because it blocked Microsoft Office Update and other connections like Semantic virus check and security check over the internet. I'm presently restoring another Win ME computer and I see that the KB912812 update no longer...

My PC has had problems shutting down. It has an ASUS A7V-266 motherboard with Athlon 1900+ CPU. I also had shut down/scandisk problems with the original SOYO motherboard. The hard drive is only a few months old, a Seagate 160MB. I have tried selective startup, and it will sometimes shut down, but...

Good morning: When I click Start/Help, I get the message "The initialization of the Help Center failed. Please report the following error number to Microsoft support: -2147143679". Any ideas? Joe

Tryng to get rid of remnants of NIs symantec. I know there is a small program from symantec, but somehow cannot find it. Can anyone point me to it. Tks in advance. ______________ -- cogito ergo sum

how do i upgrade my windows Me laptop that does NOT have internet?

sometimes after i browse my network, windows explorer hangs (and so does every other window thats open); is this normal for ME? I don't have this problem under 98 or 2K; what should i check for?

I use XP most of the time, but occasionally I need to run a program which won't run on XP.....needs "Old DOS" or equivalent. So I keep ME as the only partition on a separate drive which I run as a "Slave". Haven't done it in a while, and today when I direct the BIOS to boot to that drive, it will...