Windows ME
Windows Millenium edition help and discussions.
575 topics in this forum
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DST revisited
by Guest webster72n- 3 replies
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Food for thought! Even though an off-topic, I thought it to be worthwhile mentioning. According to native american wisdom this analogy holds quite a bit of water: When told the reason for daylight saving time, the old Indian said: "Only white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom of it, and then have a longer blanket." Harry.
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WinME internal use of ports?
by Guest Greegor- 2 replies
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I've been using Tiny Personal Firewall, AVG and Spybot S&D resident. I keep seeing various programs that are part of Windows attempting to access IP addresses and ports that do not make sense to me. One of the programs was an AVG file itself, but trying to talk to some stange IP address when nothing like that should have been taking place. I suspect something has burrowed into AVG itself. Has this sort of thing been known to happen? Is the autochk program supposed to talk to 255.255.255.255 to request my own dynamic address? My immediate question is this: What programs should be accessing what IP addresses? Scandisk shouldn't have to access …
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manual sr checkpoint
by Guest serena- 13 replies
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how do i create a system restore checkpoint manually?
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spybot supplemental update
by Guest richard- 5 replies
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This appears to fix the incompatibility between spybot and spyware blaster. richard
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Windows ME and Hotmail??????
by Guest Lone Star- 3 replies
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What to do!! Around June 30, Outlook Express can no longer be used to access Hotmail accounts. Microsoft says to install Windows Live Mail, which is not compatible with WinME. Nice. Does anyone have any reasonable workarounds for accessing Hotmail with ME, other than using the web interface? Or is this just another chip into the life of WinME.... EW
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music burner problem
by Guest serena- 12 replies
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i currently use musicmatch to burn my cd's. never had a problem before until i ininstalled jave, which i did reinstall it, and i uninstalled outlook express which i know is for mail. i currently installed mozilla firefox because my explorer freezes up on me all the time. now for some reason when i go to burn a cd, it goes thru all the motion and when i play the disc there is nothing on it. does anyone know what i can do to fix this? or what i might have done to cause this??
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Network Share Printer
by Guest Lady20- 5 replies
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How do I setup Networking? I already have a Belkin Router and it is setup and running. I want to connect 1 printer to two computers. Any help? -- Lady20
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Power Point Viewer 2003
by Guest Ed Meza- 2 replies
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I have a question regarding PPV 2003. I've received a couple of presentations that *do have music,* - however I can't hear it. When forwarded to folks, they are able to hear the music. Yet, 99% of the other PP presentations that do have music in my system - I can hear them perfectly! I have tried to Google downloads for update versions, and the only free download I could find was PP Viewer 2007 - which requires Windows 2000 SP4. Since I'm running Win ME, I am unable to find an upgrade. Does any of you have any ideas as of what could be wrong? Or do I have to accept the fact that I indeed need to 'dump' Win ME and upgrade to a more current system? Lastly, …
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RE: Just upgraded to vista and have several problems
by Guest Kenneth Warren- 8 replies
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RE: Just upgraded to vista and have several problems Hi I just upgraded to Vista about 2 weeks ago and I am having several problems with it. (1) With UAC on I can't open Itunes. If I turn off UAC then I can open Itunes with no problem and use my ipod with it. (2) When viewing videos on youtube or msn I can't hear the audio with UAC on but when I turn it off I can hear the audio just fine. I am sure there are other problems that I have not found yet. So my question is; should I reinstall Vista on my computer and do a hard install? When I upgraded to vista I ran the HP Upgrade Assistant and then installed Windows Vista Home Premium Express Upgrade. …
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Windows Protection Error - HELP!
by Guest Jackpine- 9 replies
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For some reason unknown to me, when my computer started up today, I got a blue screen with the message: Windows Protection Error. Please restart your system. When I restarted, the same message came up. The keyboard and mouse are disabled, and i had to turn off the pc by unplugging the power. I checked microsoft on another pc for this problem, and it listed a large number of possibilites as the cause. I did manage to do a thorough scan disk. Some errors were found and automatically fixed. I then defragmented the drive. When rebooting, the same message came up. Does anyone have any hints for troubleshooting this? Thanks. -- Not all those who…
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2 Programs to Increase Your PC's Performance
by Guest jeremiah wright- 14 replies
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As a software evaluator, I am aware that there are a large variety of options to choose from when looking to optimize and speed up your computer. Many computers are plagued by spyware and registry issues. According to CNN there is over a 90% chance that your PC is infected with spyware. That is why it is essential to have an antispyware program as a part of your PC arsenal. Registry issues are one of the most common issues related to the freezing of your computer and annoying error messages, therefore a registry cleaner is absolutely essential. 1. AntiSpyware: According to Wired News, "Spyware is the biggest threat to personal computing." But what exactly is spy…
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C:\_Restore\TEMP
by Guest MrTom- 9 replies
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A previous post made me curious about C:\_Restore\TEMP (Windows ME, of course), which I looked at and found thousands (I think about 3000) of files, some create/modified as early as 2001. I reduced the disk space for system restore and then disabled it, interspersed with a reboot or two. Then C:\_Restore\TEMP showed no files; it was empty. I then enabled system restore and did a reboot. A system checkpoint was created and I created another restore point. Now C:\_Restore\TEMP has 93 files, many with creation dates as early as 2003 and many with modified dates earlier (Feb 2008, March 2008, April 2008) than May 2008 (today's system date is May 2, 2008)…
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cdrom not reading files "sees" all files as music
by Guest tim78412- 1 reply
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I do volunteer work repairing computers for the disablied. I had an old copy of ME. For several years I used it so I decided to upgrade a computer using win98 to ME. All went find except for 2 problems. The major one is it will no longer read the files system on cd-rw. It sees all files as music. This was not a problem for this machine in win98. How do I work around this problem? Another smaller problem is that the machine no longer shuts down completely by itself. A message comes on screen saying it is safe to turn off the computer. I am guessing this has to do with adci (not sure if those are the right letters I think it is aa power management issue). H…
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Can't get past splash screen
by Guest John- 6 replies
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A friend's laptop recently went faulty so he decided, as it's 7 years old, to treat himself to a new one. However, he needs a couple of things off the old one if at all possible, so he brought it to me. It boots, completes the POST OK and then shows the Windows ME splash screen - but gets no further, no matter how long you leave it. Pressing the "Esc" key to get rid of the splash screen and see what's going on reveals the following text: "Please wait while setup updates your config files. This may take a few minutes". After about two minutes, it shows: "Windows could not upgrade the file %1 from %2 %1: %2" and that message repeats at two minute…
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Anyone like Me?
by Guest cool_boy- 10 replies
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Since here is the Windows Me user board, Iw ant to ask you something. Do you like Me? Because I like it. No matter what they say about it. It ran on a 1996 PC, designed for Windows 95. And it ran better than Windows 98. The only problem was with Windows Media Player and Movie Maker, caused by not enough memory or something like that, but that was OK, since the machine was older even then. I don't hate Windows Me, I even like it, no matter that it is the most hated Windows OS ever. I actually have seen more problems in XP Home than in Me. XP Pro> XP Home. XP Home is worse thgan Me in my opinion, whether XP Pro is better, but I just never got to like Wind…