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I have an HP pavilion 5350 (notebook)running Windows Me (Pentium III). the screen brightness after a stand by does not increase .... does not matter whether I press Fn+F2 or Fn+F4 or F3... in short no response. I can barely see the words on the screen. If I connect an external monitor .... no...

I set up a hard drive with ME to use when I want to use PhotoDraw (doesn't work well with XP). The display is only 16 color and low resolution. PhotoDraw won't open because it says it needs 256 color. The 16 color and resolution can not be changed. What driver can I use and how can I import it so...

I start the computer - it's normal. Except if I click any icon, or start then it freezes. Can anyone help me?

A recent problem I have been having occurs when I first boot up Window ME, the background appears along with the mouse pointer (and I can move the mouse around) but the taskbar and icons fail to appear. I surmissed that this was a display problem after rebooting the machine in Safe Mode and the...

In the Control panel,(passwords) I try to change the WindowsnPW. It asks for the old PW, which I don't remember after 5 years and I'm going away for a few days and like to create a Password. How can find out if i ever entered a password and if so, what is my old Password. Would appreciate if...

Hello, I left my laptop in on position with few of the websites on display. When I came back after few hours there was no display coming up and no keys were working. The only way laptop started functioning was by disconnecting the battery and then reconnecting it and then by switching on the power...

desktop I am working with a friend who is using Windows ME. He was running ScanDisk and touched his mouse while it was in progress. Now, when he boots up, there is a second Grey colored taskbar at the top of the screen. It shows all the drives that are in the My Computer window. He can no longer...

How do I add colors to my display properties? it's set to 16 bit and that's all it's allowing me. Under settings it says hp f1903 on standard PCI Graphics adapter (VGA). and under that it says 16 colors and that's all it's giving me and I can't slide the screen size bar. Do I need to download...

When I sign on to Win ME everything comes up but everything (mouse, keyboard etc.) freezes shortly afterward. Can anyone tell me what is happening and how I can correct the problem?

I am using the Windows Millenium Edition O/S, and when I double-click on an image-file like a .JPG or .BMP the image-file is loaded into WinME's "Image Preview" program. I've checked "Folder Options-File Types-.JPG" to see what the command-line is when a .JPG image-file is double-clicked and...

the color and images on my screen savers and on the net are fuzzy and off cant find any virus or any system problams not sure whats wrong help would be greatly appreciated thanks

ok i tryed to load an old 3d demo and it caused a blue screen. i reset my computer to fix it and got a "windows protection error" so i fixed it by reinstalling my 3d card. now i get the same thing over and over if i try to play any games or use the 3d features of my card. how do i fix this? ps....

When I am checking my email or visiting a web page and I click on a link, the window opens real small. How can I change how a window opens? This just started happening. It used to open to maximize, which is the way I want it to. I have Windows ME. I have right clicked on the Explorer icon and...

Hi there. I couldnt find the XP forum so am postin in here I hope noone minds. Basaically I have a user who is usign XP and every so often for no apprent reason the Display changes to the Visually Impaired (Everything goes large). It isnt user fault and they user isnt hitting shortcut keys by...

How do i get the java to work in my IE6..? I cant play any kind of games without the java..

I get a message when I try to open a word document the it is locked for edit by an unknown user. Can't open temp files and my help program won't initialize. gives me error -2147143677. can you help

Hi There, I am not able to connect my laptop to TV. As per the manual I tried changing the display properties by going to control panel - display-settings-advanced and then tried to change the output device. The TV box is disabled and I am not able to change the output device. Please let me...

I have a win me on my old computer. I now have an xp pro box but after a move cannot find my original software. Is there a possibility of slaving the 98 drive and being able to access the software since xp recognizes fat 32 drives? I know that trouble shooting an xp issue can usually be resolved...

My ME HP Pavilion 9850, I noticed that the display resolution is a bit odd so I tried to change it, Propertiessetting, but the value will not stick when I changed from 600x to 800x (and reboot). So I decided to update the driver from HP website.(Nvidia GeForce 2MX (HP) to 09-2001 version...