Forum: General
September 25th 09, 09:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 21
Views: 5,208
Text Case Problem
Hi Mart--
Thanks for the--yes--helpful links! I did use System Restore once on the
new Millennium installation a few days after I got the dual booter ... and
I did try renaming a few of Me's files...
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Forum: General
September 23rd 09, 09:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 21
Views: 5,208
Text Case Problem
I have a couple of Me conundrums going on--this first:
In April I had a new computer built to boot either Millennium or XP. Both
OS are on appropriate partitions (C=FAT32; G=NTFS) on a 160 GB...
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Forum: General
September 6th 07, 06:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 8
Views: 657
Moving My Pictures - Mike M
Hi Mike
Thank you SO much for providing me with this information. Your instructions
are saved in my "Windows Help" folder and I'm very glad my need didn't cause
you to have to rewrite them :-))) ...
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Forum: General
September 5th 07, 08:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 8
Views: 657
Moving My Pictures - Mike M
Hi Mike
Thanks for the folder "equality" clarification--I'm thinking the Tweak
writers just assumed the gal-on-the-street would understand.
From his recent post about troubles installing the Spybot...
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Forum: General
September 5th 07, 07:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 8
Views: 657
Moving My Pictures - Mike M
Hi Mike
I finally decided I really need to have My Pictures living on my desktop,
but before TweakUI will do the deed it pops up this scary warning:
"Carelessly changing a special folder may render...
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Forum: General
August 22nd 07, 05:08 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,975
Backing it all up
Hi Gary
It's been a few months since the USB drive started complaining--and I
haven't had courage to plug it in since. I'm in the same kettle with the
recently failed C drive but will definitely...
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Forum: General
August 22nd 07, 05:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,301
Moving My Pictures
Hi Mike,
Thanks for responding. There are two problems with PhototImpact's "Open"
and "Save" dialogs--one is that some of them lack the Places Bar so they
look like this (10...
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Forum: General
August 21st 07, 08:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,301
Moving My Pictures
Mike,
I need a shortcut to My Pictures that will show up in the folder-list
drop-downs in the dialog boxes inside my imaging programs--and the ordinary
variety of shortcut doesn't. Is there a way I...
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Forum: General
August 21st 07, 08:30 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,975
Backing it all up
My thanks to all for sharing ideas and experience, and especially to Gary
for the update CDs that made reinstalling Me SO much easier--I even have a
sane version of IE 6 going now :-)))) In truth,...
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Forum: General
August 19th 07, 07:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,301
Moving My Pictures
Hi George
Thanks for responding. I do have My Pics expanded on the Start menu's
"Documents" list (StartDocumentsMy Pictures) --I also have a
shortcut to My Pics on a "Folders" toolbar I made on...
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Forum: General
August 19th 07, 07:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,975
Backing it all up
Having three C drive failures in just two and a half years requiring me to
reinstall and re-set up every program I use (which I'm doing now) makes me
wonder if it's possible to copy/backup my entire...
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Forum: General
August 17th 07, 10:09 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,301
Moving My Pictures
Hi Mike
Thanks for the speedy response :-)))
Wish I were so bold as to just jump right in and try something new like
moving this folder. I might could since I only have Me wallpapers in My
Pics at...
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Forum: General
August 17th 07, 09:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 947
Browser Question
I'm using Firefox 2 as an alternate (not as my default) and get it to open
links from anywhere on my HD--excluding email--with a shortcut to it in the
SendTo folder.
I do like Ff's tabbed paging and...
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Forum: General
August 17th 07, 08:08 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,301
Moving My Pictures
Hi Folks
I'm always SO glad to find you guys here :-))) I'm still using and loving
Me and have had no problems with the OS for ages but have just reinstalled
it after yet another C drive...
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Forum: General
September 5th 06, 07:54 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 716
Hardware Temperature
Hi there :-)
I'm using Millennium--and no big problems with that :-))--but last year in
early July I lost a 3-month-old motherboard to overheating. I have a
another new motherboard of course (a...
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Forum: General
September 4th 06, 09:15 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,924
Mike M--My Problem with Nuisance Temp Files
Hi Mike
Just a belated follow-up.
I installed the new modem without a hitch--even though it took me another
few days to get motivated to do it--and my slow and stalling downloading
problems are...
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Forum: General
August 6th 06, 07:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,343
My Problem with Nuisance Temp Files
Mike,
I'm still using IE 5.5.4807.2300. I tried the Me version of 6 but really
didn't like the strange things it did--especially, it made "bouncy whirly"
scrollbars in Windows Explorer, and caused...
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Forum: General
August 5th 06, 05:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,343
My Problem with Nuisance Temp Files
Hi Mike
You're spot on! Working with your idea, I cold booted and waited five
minutes before running anything. Then I opened the Windows folder to see if
the fff files were in there but found...
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Forum: General
August 4th 06, 07:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,343
My Problem with Nuisance Temp Files
Hi Mike
Thanks for sticking with me :-))
On the startup tab I have going:
$Volumouse$ (had this for a couple of years--great little app)
Desktop Architect (had this since...
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Forum: General
August 2nd 06, 05:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,343
My Problem with Nuisance Temp Files
Hi Mike
Yup, "Disable script debugging" is checked on IE's Internet Options/Advanced
tab.
Since I rarely receive PowerPoint files, I uninstalled the PowerPoint Viewer
yesterday via Add/Remove but...
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Forum: General
August 1st 06, 04:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,343
My Problem with Nuisance Temp Files
Hi Mike
Thanks for responding :-) . . . but as I said I just don't have Mdm.exe
anywhere--not in the task manager, not on the startup tab of msconfig, not
in the registry, not in the startup folder,...
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Forum: General
July 31st 06, 09:42 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,343
My Problem with Nuisance Temp Files
Hi Good Folk! So glad you're still here :o))
I see this has been addressed very recently but I've a new twist:
Yesterday--while removing a puzzle file I'd erroneously saved in the Windows
folder...
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