I asked about this problem last night in the windowsupdate group but realized this may be more the appropriate place: Each time I try to install DirectX 9.0b, it says the install was successful but after I restart and then run dxdiag, it still says I have DirectX 8.1 installed. There are no error...

Hi forum, The taskscheduler is set to become active on start-up of=20 the PC but the internetconnection don=B4t become active so=20 no action. It was working for a long time but now anymore? Any help is welcome regards Huib

First, I realize there is a Newsgroup dedicated to Picture It! but while I'm waiting for a response there perhaps someone here can help me. In attempting to reply to a friend this morning I received a failure message having to do with Picture It! and demanding an update before allowing me...

I recently 'upgraded' to Windows ME and I cannot get my Windows Media Player to sound right. i have used the graphic equalizer to change the settings but it comes out to have a lot of bass, or not enough treble or not enough of something else. Before I replaced my hard drive my player...

Hello Noel and Mike, This post prompted me to ask: http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?p=3101008 The person posting began the thread. It is good to know the Facts about something. I am happy to know you are still monitoring what seems like a very quiet forum.

Hello, I would like to know more about the items presented for monitoring. The significance of the values displayed and the reliability of those values as shown by this tool. A pointer appreciated. Ben.

Windows ME in control panel report my hard drive as 3 gig. My hard drive is 10 gig. How can I fix this without reinstalling the operating system? Also, the screen "It is now safe to shut down your computer..." never comes up and as a result scan disk runs whenever I boot the system. Are these...

Something very wacky is going on. I was using Internet explorer when all of a sudden it closed up, and message that windows cannot find iexplorer.exe showed up. Down in the shortcut try, the icon has changed from the 'e' to what looks like an executable file. When I hover over it with the...

I'm posting this question here as I cannot find a group that is more appropiate. This concerns Word Pad, Microsoft's free publishing program. The question:- When I produce a document, save it and subsequently re-open it I find that the details of the font, the font size are correct. But,...

Lengthy, for which I apologize. Following the MS KB891711 debacle I noticed while inspecting the accumulated log produced by ScanDefrag that MMTASK.TSK was also not terminating when ScanDefrag ran (the other was KB891711 itself). MMTASK is not in the startup list but Process Explorer always...

I have thousands of pictures categorized under "My Pictures" (into folders and sub-folders and sub-sub-folders). Is there any way of adding an option to SendTo so that I can get "My Pictures" to cascade open and display the folders and sub-folders?? I have tried adding a shortcut to "My Pictures"...

Hi I'm running a Dell Dimension 8200 that I bought in 2001. About the beginning of this year our hard drive gave us some problems, so we got rid of it and got a new one, a Western Digital 80gb. We installed the usual stuff on it, a lot of it being anti-problamatic programs (eg norton,zonealarm)....

Process Explorer, free, www.systinternals.com . For those of you interested, there is a version 8.52.00 available. I may be late with this announcement, but, I just found it. The new version has some added features and doesn't seem to be nearly as resource hungry as the earlier ones (not that...

Hope someone can help my curiosity. A friend has run Window ME (which was an upgrade from Windows 98) for several years but over the past few months he had problems booting up. He would get requested for scan disks several times, it would hang up, etc. My son and I took a look at it and also...

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...

Hi everyone, I would like to wish all my friends and aquaintenances here the very best wishes for the festive season and hope everyone has a great time. Joan

I have downloaded a BIOS update file for my Dell Dimension L733r but I remember reading somewhere that this could be a little tricky and it listed some precautions to take before installing updated bios. Can anybody give me some hints so that I won't really screw up my system? Thanks, Janice

I currently have Adobe 4.0. Just bought the Adobe 6.0 Professional upgrade but the new one does not recognize the older Adobe CD and won't load. Any help would be appreciated. Adobe was little help when I called. John coll12 AT hotmail DOT com

I have problem when I start up my computer,I get this Error that says RUNDLL,Error loading C:\Windows\SDKBK.DLL The System cannot fine the file specified. I hope someone can tell me what it is and how to fix it. Pat

I need the most recent copy of SHLWAPI.DLL for __Windows ME__. I restored a copy from the CABS but it doesn't play well with some other DLLs. I was able to get the thing up-and-running enough to check my mail, etc. by restoring a couple of other DLLs. But ... my computer is NOT HAPPY. She wants...