I installed a pop up stopper and Spybot and after that my display is on 16 colors and the lowest resolution and I'm unable to change it. I tried everything in the trouble shooter but I can't fix it. My system restore doesn't seem to be working either. I uninstalled the pop up stopper and Spybot...

I'm using an image as my wallpaper so ME is requiring that I enable the Active Desktop. What I'm looking for is a way to have the background on my icons appear transparent. Any ideas? The shareware I've found won't work with Active Desktop enabled. Thanks

Well, i could have said the icons are messed up, but someone else has used that tag line. :-) I did attempt the solution suggested in that thread, but it didn't work. In more detail: all the icons in my start bar and the icons that are dusplayed when ever I'm in a program and I open...

When I type, very few capital letters appear on the screen even though I use the shift key. Have replaced keyboard with a completely different system, but has not fixed problem. I'm a piano player, so have a good strong touch.

Hello, Everytime i load a program with a small animation or video file, i'd get this stripey screen in its place, saying 'cannot find vids.c:vid compressor' (I think that's the name). is there anyway to restore this so I can have my video back to normal? i don't have a windows me cd, so i'm at a...

Hi again, About a week or two ago, I needed help with a problem with my video. I keep getting the message Cannot find vids.c:vid decompressor. Am I screwed, or can this be helped. I'm losing my mind here.

yeaterday i scaned for updates and it gave me 2 critical updates security update msxml4.0 and microsoft.net framework1.1 service pack 1 after a success dowload i ended up with somenew programs on my computer ..net framework data access, vgxq833989, xlm parser and sdk i dont have a clue of what...

also I forgot to say this computer is not connected to internet.

I recently restored me on an old computer. It has an error msg, "windows product activation must be activated with microsoft". My cd is legit, came with my compac, what do I do?

I have downloaded quit a few things these past couple of days e.g Windows updates, WMP 9 and IE 6. These have installed correctly and are working fine but everytime I start my PC it brings up the screen that says 'updating files, this may take several minutes' or something on them lines. It's seems...

After my computer is turned on or rebooted, internet explorer automatically tries to establish a connection without the user prompting it to do so. How can I disable this? Thanks

Explorer caused a fault in KERNEL32.DLL It says to click on OK but when you do it re-boots and the same old "Explorer caused a fault in KERNEL32.DLL" pops up.

Using ME, the windows update download works however when restarting the netvista, a message "windows could not upgrade the file %1 from %2". I tried restarting a couple times but seems to not upgrade the file even though the machine will bring up windows. Can you assist?

When I open My Documents the individual documents do not display. Same happens with My Computer too. The field where the name of the document and document type usually appear are completely empty... Any thoughts anyone? Thanks -- Damian O'Hara Allen Carr (Canada)

Can anyone advise a possible fix to a problem that just began? I get an Error Explorer unknown or Explorer error shell32.dll. when attempting to open desktop icons for Recycle bin,My Documents and My Computer..,closing some Web sites cause this also. HP said just use the Recovery disk,but...

at first i have two operating system on my hard the basic one is WindowsME and the other is windows FD. when i change the resoulation of the screen in WinMe from 600X800 to 1024X724 the screen turn black. I restart the computer , i saw the memory counter and i choose windowsMe and when the windows...

Me han mandado un parche por correo para mi windows pero no se si abrirlo, tengo miedo ^^

I have worked out that the drivers and software that control the Display (in Control Panel) need to be reloaded. I have not been able to find a way where I can reload this part of the operating system.

Not sure if I am in the correct group but I am trying to find out why all the icons on my computer are now covered with black boxes. I have run spyware, adware and virus software but all come back as clean. I have restored the system to an earlier date but still these black boxes are there. They...

The thumbnails in My Pictures are no longer showing pictures. All my folder options are set the same as another computer running under ME but for some reason I cannot get the pictures to show in the thumbnail. Any ideas?