Dear Sir/Madam, I am posting this on behalf of a colleague who cannot access the internet. Last week, my colleague got a virus on his computer. This was despite having Norton anti-virus 2003 AND a firewall. He doesn't understand how the virus could have managed this, and to be frank I cannot...

keep getting the message "failed to install a required file" anyone got any suggestions??????????? -- gordon

This site has put them together quite a lot of registry utilities. May be worht having a look at them. http://www.pchardware.ro/Download/index.php?offset=0&catid=11&ord=4

I used to backup my Windows Me system using tar/gzip from linux, to CDs. About a year ago this failed to restore to workability, when I upgraded Norton Internet Security to 2004. In another newsgroup I read about the short filename anomalies, where Windows does unexpected things to short file...

Several weeks ago I posted about a problem with sound on my ME machine. The sound had mysteriously stopped working. The Sound device was reported as working properly, but no sound playback device was shown in the sound properties with options greyed out, and there no speaker icon in the system...

I want to upgrade my PC memory with, say, a 256k chip using memory checker on www.crucial.com I have determined that I need one of these http://tinyurl.com/9hy5a My local PC World has http://tinyurl.com/9jwvf Is it the same thing or compatible ? Many thanks

Puter is locking up coming out of game room site. Get this MS message that IE has caused a problem in Kernel 32 (I think) and to send it to Microsoft which i've done. I've tried Ctrl+Alt+Del to no avail. Could the problem be with the site I'm in rather than a problem with my puter. Last but not...

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Hi, Some how I have a picture that appears at the very start of the start up sequence on my Windows ME computer. It only lasts a second or so then goes away and Windows then starts normally. how can I get rid of this or change it? It is a picture that I have had on the computer and I have no idea...

Hi, If I try to do a System Restore on my ME machine I get the message that tells me that there is not enough space to perform this action (something like I need 300MB of space). The thing is that I have 4GB of spare space on the hard drive. Any ideas why? Cheers Lenny

Hello, I'd like to change the value of the Wait Time for the DOS-based screen "Windows Millenium Edition Startup Menu". It's currently set to 30 seconds. I'd like to change it to 5. I notice that in MSCONFIG there's a setting for me to avoid having the startup menu displayed at all. I'd like to...

Just finished building a new P4 system. Trying to load Windows ME onto it, but after installation I recieve the following blue screen during boot: "An exception OE has occurred at 0028:C006115D in VxD VNETBIOS(01) + 00000B8D. This was called from 0028:C023F58B in VxD VMM(OC) + 0000058B." Tried...

http://msmvps.com/siljaline/archive/2005/08/17/63121.aspx Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Security, AH-VSOP _________________________________________ Security Tools Updates

I recently installed ZoneAlarm Security Suite. Since then, whenever I shutdown windows, about 2/3 of the times windows reboots or the hard drive fan stays on. Windows then gives me a message that it did not shutdown properly and scan disk runs. I contacted ZoneAlarm and they told me to shut down...

I wonder if it is possible to modify/add a item in the menu that appears when from the Desktop, I right click then I choose New ... to create a new file from various listed software. If so, how to do it? Thanks in advance Alain kadlec Ottawa -- Les politiciens, c'est comme les couches des bébés;...

Hi All, I have misplaced my original WIN Me upgrade disk and am experiencing minor system degradation (also got the blue screen message to re-install Windows Me). My original system had too small a hard disk to run System Restore - so I don't have the ability to go back to previous version. ...

Does Windows ME have the photo transferring wizard that is found in XP? If so, do I have to do anything special to use it (like disable my camera's photo transferring software?). thanks for any help.

I am trying to set up a home network involving two computers (one with Windows Me and one with Windows XP) and a wireless router. I have almost everything working. One the WinMe computer, I can see and use files in shared folders on the WinXP computer, but not the other way around. When the WinXP...

http://msmvps.com/siljaline/archive/2005/08/24/63939.aspx Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Security, AH-VSOP _________________________________________ Security Tools Updates

As I don't use Microsoft messenger, I'd really like ot get rid of it altogether, uninstalling it if possible. It pops up all the time and even when I alt-cntrl-delete and 'End Task' it still comes back. Can I stop it loading and using up my precious RAM? Can I go further and uninstall it?