Windows ME
Windows Millenium edition help and discussions.
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Speed Up Your Computer By Cleaning Your Registry
by Guest jeremiah wright- 0 replies
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What is the registry? The registry is a database that stores information necessary to configure the system for your computers users, applications, and hardware devices. Why does it need to be cleaned (repaired)? Every time you install software on your computer, change a system setting, delete a program, all the changes are kept in the registry. Over time, your registry grows, however, it also can end up fragmented and full of unwanted registry items. These unwanted items occur by removing attributes of programs or deleting programs you no longer want without using the Add or Remove Programs function. Some programs do not always come with proper uninstall progr…
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Computer shuts down automatically.
by Guest Ushnell- 5 replies
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I don't understand this and I have no idea what is causing my computer to shut down while its in the process of loading Windows. to show more detail this how it goes: after the computer's bios runs it's test it then goes in to access the hard drive to load Windows but the usual loading Windows ME screen does not appear but now a black screen showing information about two driver's is displayed and at the bottom of the second one is a blinking cursor that blinks for a few seconds then the computer automatically shuts down. what could this possibly mean? please help. -- Ushnell
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Windows Media Player-No Audio
by Guest Jerry- 5 replies
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Windows Media Player for Windows Me I suddenly lost audio through Windows Media Player. It will not play my audio CDs. This is what I have done. I tried installing my Sound Blaster Live driver. It processed through until it stopped and sent this message: “File Driver6.CAB on Windows Me edition is needed.” At this point I did not know what to do next and aborted the driver installation. I then went to the Dell troubleshooting diagnostics for audio and it told me to search for the following files: midi=mmsystem.dll wave=mmsystem.dll I did a search and the files were not listed. The Dell diagnostics told me to contact my manufacturer if the fi…
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Reinstalling Windows Me
by Guest Dapper Dan- 9 replies
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It sounded like it was too easy!! Successfully reinstalled Windows Me this morning, subsequently taking several hours downloading all the updates. In the process of downloading required utilities, I ran into a memory problem which made no sense. However I have subsequently found out that previous partitions appear to have remained, although they are not recognized in MY COMPUTER. Background: This is a 10 GB Compaq Laptop which is shipped with the O/S on the C: drive and the Recovery System on D:. A couple of years ago, I had created a new partition to house all of my data files., OE Message store, tmp and temp. Currently, MY COMPUTER shows C: at 4.86 GB an…
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AdAware SE Personal Build 1 2
by Guest Dapper Dan- 27 replies
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I just read the tail end of the recent thread regarding AdAware SE and would appreciate if someone wouldn't mind taking a few minutes more and clarifying this for me. My version of AdAware is SE1R210.27.12.2007. Any time I check for updates I'm told that I am up to date. A visit to the Lavasoft website explains that support for this version expired December 31, 2007 but that I should replace it with AdAware 2007. The problem is that 2007 requires Windows 2000 or better. Mike has explained to Heather that Lavasoft has fixed the problem with the dated definitions and that she can download new definitions for AdAware SE from the Lavasoft site. I do indeed see w…
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XP Installation
by Guest blarney8@.verizon.net- 2 replies
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Can I install XP over ME withoput deleting ME? If yes how is it done?
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power-down stuck in "re-boot"...
by Guest Paul- 1 reply
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hello, trying to offer some long distance help to a friend who's running ME on a P3-450. He may have inadvertently caused this problem from a windows tweak, but his computer now does not do an auto shut-down from the "start" menu, as it did before, but simply re-boots. Is there is a windows tweak that could affect this, or is it more likely a BIOS problem? thanks for any suggestions... Paul
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dll error message missing file
by Guest lapointe420- 7 replies
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Hi when i turn on my pc when it goes in to my desktop i am getting a error messagec:\windows\llfcdadll im just wondering if anybody can help me on finding the missing file it is saying that the file is missing so if somebody could help that would be great thanks lapointe420
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Right Click Menu Disappeared 1 2 3
by Guest webster72n- 73 replies
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Experimenting with Ad-Aware, my right-click function for the desktop went 'out of order'. I can do without, but would like to restore it, if possible. The question is 'how'? My post in the IE browser ng hasn't found any takers yet. Harry.
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msvcrt.dll missing
by Guest MN- 2 replies
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I uninstalled some programs that I do not use anymore (not related to microsoft) and when I restarted the computer it says MSVCRT.DLL was not found. I did not receive a ME disk and not sure how to resotore this dll file so i can start Windows ME.
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Re: M'I.5,Pers ecution , MI 5 Wa nt Me to Sen d You th ese Fax es
by Guest eifmv@hotmail.com- 0 replies
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Re: M'I.5,Pers ecution , MI 5 Wa nt Me to Sen d You th ese Fax es much of the inexpressibleness of what they experience, how their words fail, so that they cannot declare it. And particularly they speak with exceeding admiration of the superlative excellency of that pleasure and delight which they sometimes enjoy; how a little of it is sufficient to pay them for all the pains and trouble they have gone through in seeking salvation; and how far it exceeds all earthly pleasures. Some express much of the sense which these spiritual views give them of the vanity of earthly enjoyments, how mean and worthless all these things appear to them. Many, while their mi…
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Religious Nutcase on the loose!
by Guest John John- 17 replies
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I see that we have a religious nut on the loose. Posting under the name of others to proselytize and foist their religious beliefs onto others. I hope Microsoft clears the crap off the servers and bans them from posting here forever. John
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Re: Internet connection problem
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 7 replies
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Re: Internet connection problem In many others it has been like the dawning of the day, when at first but a little light appears, and it may be presently hid with a cloud; and then it appears again, and shines a little brighter, and gradually increases, with intervening darkness, till at length it breaks forth more clearly from behind the clouds. And many are, doubtless, ready to date their conversion wrong, throwing by those lesser degrees of light that appeared at first dawning, and calling some more remarkable experience they had afterwards, their conversion. This often, in a great measure, arises from a wrong understanding of what they have always been tau…
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Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06R1 updates 1 2 3
by Guest RockyTSquirrel- 54 replies
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Greetings, Any one else notice a lag in the weekly updates of AdAware since Christmas? My last update was 12/27/2007.. Tks, RTS
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Re: Internet connection problem
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 16 replies
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Re: Internet connection problem Forwarded to WinME General via crosspost. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Alan wrote: > I'm running WinMe and had a hardware crash that wiped out most of the > files for Zone Alarm (free ed) and AVG Anti-virus. I re-installed AVG > OK but ZA won't re-install, and I got various error messages about > VSUTIL.DLL not found. However that file was still in C:\Windows\System > with its original date-stamp and I tried replacing it without success. > I eventually fixed ongoing error messages at startup by findi…
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System Restore has a CreateRestore option?
by Guest Bob- 16 replies
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I ask (again) because, IMHO, it doesn't make good sense for it not to and Andy Rathbone, in his books Windows Me for Dummies, describes System Restore as having a CreateRestore point as well as an option to select a prior creation. Our WinME computer, working pretty well for eight years now, has no such option or I sure as he!! can't find it.... Another peculiarity was, at first I could not get the Movie Maker to work with our Sony VX1000 camcorder. I got some support from MS which fixed that. And I found one of the Sony Blue Ray RW DVDs worked well with winME although Sony said it shouldn't. I think a lot of us have seen that kind of good news several t…
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Hotfixes and Updates for Me
by Guest Justin Thyme- 12 replies
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I have a six-year-old Dell with Windows Me that I would like to give to a friend or close acquaintance, but first I want to remove personal stuff like letters (no porn, nothing that shouldn't be seen by anybody, but of no business to others). I understand that the Format command will accomplish as much as I need, but Format will also remove the operating system (won't it?). I have all the CDs that came with this machine when I bought it new, so I ought to be able to restore Windows Me. But what about all the modifications that took place before MS stopped support for Me? Can I get the hotfixes, etc., that bring this computer up to the level it was when…
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New Computer, ME incompatable, XP is only upgrade
by Guest Chronus- 17 replies
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In Microsofts great wisdom, they made the XP professional upgrade require windows already be installed. I have a new computer so it started without windows. Not knowing a way around the problem, I installed (or at least tried to) Windows ME. It halts due to a lack of compatable drivers. Restart it and it comes up without the CD (actually DVD) drive. Yes the drive works, its the one Windows ME was installed from. Now I have an extremely limited Windows ME with no way to access the XP professional disk. Anyone know of a work around?
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Registry Defragmenters
by Guest O.J. Newman- 22 replies
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Hello: There have been a few threads recently on the use of registry cleaners. While some people like them and have not had any bad experiences with them, the consensus seems to be that such tools should be avoided by inexperienced users. I have also seen registry defragmenter utilities available, both as part of commercial software, as well as shareware and freeware. Does the advice to avoid registry cleaners also apply to registry defragmenters - that is to avoid them? Is it best simply to not touch the registry (other than using a tool like System Restore)? Thanks, O.J.
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Service pack for ME
by Guest enzo- 9 replies
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I'm not sure I understand, if there are no service packs for ME ,how can I update my USB ports speed. This is what I was told I would need to do if I want this media player to work.
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Help, my WinME System Restore has no 'Create a Restore Point' option... I know this is incredibly late to notice but it is true. I see no option to (manually) create a Restore Point. I do get "automatic" creation of restore points usually once a day, occasionally twice, occasionally none. I thought that was a bit odd but it has "worked" for me so far. In thelast 3 months I have used Restore points 3 or 4 times to recover from odd ball system (Near Death Experience) behavior I finally got to checking Andy Rathbone's Microsoft Windows Me For DUMMIES, both volumes, and it is pretty clear that I should. In the first 5 or more years I've been using this comp…
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Problem reinstalling winME
by Guest mm- 11 replies
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Is there something about installing winME that causes it to freeze exactly 10% in to the Copy Files portion of the install. Or is it my harddrive, and what should I do about it? I banged my IBM Thjnkpad 600E laptop really hard, and winME won't start anymore, but DOS will, from a rescue disk**. Whether I should have or not, I ran DOS scandisk for many hours, and until today, kept finding 1 or 2 or 8 clusters that scandisk disabled, although for the last few passes, they were just clusters that it thought ran slow and it expected to fail soon. During all of this, I used a recovery disk to start DOS, and on about 5 occasions then used a legitimate ME update…
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service pack 3 1 2
by Guest enzo- 26 replies
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is there a service pack 3 for windows ME, I get that message when I try to plug in a MP4 video player.
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My Control Panel is Missing and I can't Open Outlook Express
by Guest GardenGranny- 12 replies
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When the old yr left so did my Control Panel. Also, I can't get in Outlook Express but rather am getting error messages. Help this novice please. GardenGranny
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M'I`5,Persecuti on harassm ent at wo rk
by Guest emifvief@gmail.com- 0 replies
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -= harassment at. work -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Once I stopped watching television and. listening to the radio at the end of 1990, "they" had to. find other ways of committing abuses. So they took what must be for them a tried. and tested route; they get at you by subversion of those. around you. Since they wouldn't be able to do that with my family or friends, that meant getting at people in the. workplace to be their mouthpieces and do their dirty work for. them. They supplied my employers in Oxford. with details from what was going on in my private life, and what I and other people had said. at my home and accommodation in. Ox…