I am tuning up my father's system (HP Pavilion with 1 GHz Athlon, 128 MB RAM 40GB HD) and boy did he have some serious adware! I've been going through Registry and carefully deleting the junk that placed itself on his system, and am curious about qki.exe. It keeps perpetuating itself into the...

get errors message on windows in a program and it says win32api has caused an error and it also say that win 32api function 1114 failure initalizaled dynamic failed dll link. very frusting trying to find help on this if any one know how to contact help plesase let me know

I notice that the new Ad-Aware lists items called MRUs (if I recall correctly). Exactly what are these and are they safe to remove? Thanks

I am running windows me and and having all kinds of problems I just had a new harddrive put in and now I get all these erro messages. I have tryed to use my recovery disk but nothing happens it just starts up as always and that is getting to be a pain

I keep getting error mes. that my DLL.WINSOOL.DRV CAN'T BE FOUND I'm running win.me

I have a Compaq Presario and it stated freezing on startup where it says "Updating Hardware Information Database". It sits at 0% and goes no further. I can boot in Safe Mode no problem though.

I keep getting all these error messages.... Explorer has caused error in PDF11BE.DLL when I try to open my computer or specific icons Aand I went to open explorer and I got about 75 windows that kept opening that said HTP404 Not Found....I mean it was worse that a version of whack a...

I am running ME and the system did not fully load before things shut down. My emergency boot disk won't read and I was hoping I could put the ME disk in the CD and start from there. How do I tell my computer to boot from the CD?

How can I get to MSCONFIG using START MENU when there is no "RUN" above shutdown. Or how do I get that function on the START menu?

I have deleted the file from my pc. Is there a site I can download it from ?

My computer has a password protecting the BIOS setup. Unfortunately it has been forgotten. How can I get round this? Thanks Martin

When I try to run the Windows Update, Internet explorer freezes up, and I have to control/alt/delete to get out. It does ok with everything on the site, however freezes when I start the "scan for updates" or the "Pick updates to install" options. It runs for perhaps 20 seconds,...

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Dear Sir/Madam, I am using Compaq Presario 7000 desktop pc at home. It has Windows ME with 1 GHz and P-III with 256 MB RAM. I have a problem. * The notepad closes down on its own within 5 seconds, once I open any notepad file, is there some error in registry or system file? Please tell me how can I...

On startup I keep getting the message missing required scanutil.dll. I investigated mcafee and they said it is a Windows ME problem. Anybody have and ideas? Frustrated, Ralph Stenerson

I cannot perform a clean uninstal of NIS (Norton Internet Security pkg) using start/settings/control panel/ add remove programs. Nothing happened when I repeatedly tried. I'm concerned if I go into "My Computer", and take out all visible portions of this program I will leave behind file fragments...

We have a vacation cabin in a very rural area. We have a dialup connection, and the speed varies, but is usually around 28k. Based on some research and in talking with others in the county, it appears there is no cure for this, as our home is very far away from the telephone central office or...

Dear Sir/Madam, I am using Compaq Presario 7000 desktop pc at home. It has Windows ME with 1 GHz and P-III with 256 MB RAM. I have a problem. * The notepad closes down on its own within 5 seconds, once I open any notepad file, is there some error in registry or system file? Please...

I need help I'm tryiong to update windows ME and it gets as far as the "looking for updates page 0%" and goes no further any suggesions would be appreciated thanks Kim

How about blowing out the entire Windows ME and reinstalling?