Hangs - among other things!

I have had Windows ME since it came out and I still
strugle to get it working. I am constantly having the
programs hang, and error messages, .dll messages, programs
will close in the middle of them. Is there someone who
knows how to check what is wrong? I have tried to
reinstall the software completely, and installed all of
the updates, but it still has not helped. I even purchaed
a program to check the registry (which found several
problems) but it is still having the same problems. I
have McAfee (Online update)installed, Office XP installed
and am afraid to install anyhing else back on until I can
get this issue resolved! It takes me forever, between the
restarting, freezing, etc. to get anything done! My
computer and I need HELP! Thanks!

Just for grins, try this: Right click on your "My Computer" icon (on the
desktop) and select Properties, you should get the System Properties window
and then select the Performance tab. At the bottom you will see three
'buttons', the middle one being Graphics, left click on it and you will get
the Advanced Graphics Settings window. Move the Hardware Acceleration
slider to one notch above "None" and OK out. (don't remember if you have to
reboot for the change to take place, but, reboot anyway) See if that stops
your random freezing. If so, you need to check into updated video/mouse
drivers or possibly a different video card. (Simply repeat the procedure,
to move the slider back when needed)
Heirloom, old and let us know


"PAB" wrote in message
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I have had Windows ME since it came out and I still
strugle to get it working. I am constantly having the
programs hang, and error messages, .dll messages, programs
will close in the middle of them. Is there someone who
knows how to check what is wrong? I have tried to
reinstall the software completely, and installed all of
the updates, but it still has not helped. I even purchaed
a program to check the registry (which found several
problems) but it is still having the same problems. I
have McAfee (Online update)installed, Office XP installed
and am afraid to install anyhing else back on until I can
get this issue resolved! It takes me forever, between the
restarting, freezing, etc. to get anything done! My
computer and I need HELP! Thanks!

Well, that didn't work. Unfortunately! Also whenever
restart is selected, the computer hangs then goes into
the "blue screen" with the "Warning" the system is busy
or has become unstable. (I know exactly how it feels!
All of this is making me feel unstable!) When this screen
comes up it says to pre ctrl alt del but when I do that
nothing happens. The only way to get the computer to shut
down is to manually shut it down. Then when it restarts,
McAfee says that it has started in "safe mode" and must
restart in order for computer to be protected. Which I
have to go through the same thing again to do that!
YIKES! Any sugestions?
-----Original Message-----
Just for grins, try this: Right click on your "My
Computer" icon (on the
desktop) and select Properties, you should get the System
Properties window
and then select the Performance tab. At the bottom you
will see three
'buttons', the middle one being Graphics, left click on
it and you will get
the Advanced Graphics Settings window. Move the Hardware
Acceleration
slider to one notch above "None" and OK out. (don't
remember if you have to
reboot for the change to take place, but, reboot anyway)
See if that stops
your random freezing. If so, you need to check into
updated video/mouse
drivers or possibly a different video card. (Simply
repeat the procedure,
to move the slider back when needed)
Heirloom, old and let us know


"PAB" wrote in
message
...
I have had Windows ME since it came out and I still
strugle to get it working. I am constantly having the
programs hang, and error messages, .dll messages,
programs
will close in the middle of them. Is there someone who
knows how to check what is wrong? I have tried to
reinstall the software completely, and installed all of
the updates, but it still has not helped. I even
purchaed
a program to check the registry (which found several
problems) but it is still having the same problems. I
have McAfee (Online update)installed, Office XP
installed
and am afraid to install anyhing else back on until I
can
get this issue resolved! It takes me forever, between
the
restarting, freezing, etc. to get anything done! My
computer and I need HELP! Thanks!


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"PAB" wrote in message
...
I have had Windows ME since it came out and I still
strugle to get it working. I am constantly having the
programs hang, and error messages, .dll messages, programs
will close in the middle of them. Is there someone who
knows how to check what is wrong? I have tried to
reinstall the software completely, and installed all of
the updates, but it still has not helped. I even purchaed
a program to check the registry (which found several
problems) but it is still having the same problems. I
have McAfee (Online update)installed, Office XP installed
and am afraid to install anyhing else back on until I can
get this issue resolved! It takes me forever, between the
restarting, freezing, etc. to get anything done! My
computer and I need HELP! Thanks!

You say you've been struggling to get ME running stable ever since it first
came out. That's a long time to live with such frustration. If you're 100%
certain your system is free from viruses, trojans, spyware and other
unwanted guests, I would suspect your problem is hardware related.
Overheating, failing/faulty RAM, an unstable PSU can all cause the symptoms
you describe.

As a first step I would recommend downloading Ad-Aware from
www.lavasoftusa.com, Spybot 1.3 from www.safer-networking.org and CWShredder
from www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Be sure to get the latest definitions.
If after running the above progs your system comes out totally free from
nasties, I would definitely suspect a hardware issue.

HTH


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