(sorry I accidently sent it before having finished writing) Hi everyone, as some of you might know, the Windows 98 "Save As..." dialog box, besides being too small, clumsy, etc., has one annoying behavior. It lets you double-click through a folder shortcut, while replacing the name of the file...

Have an old emachine running Me. Was unused for several years. Need it now and it is painfully slow. Very slow selecting and loading even the start button routine. Even slower on the web. -- misterp53

I'm looking for some recommendations for good zip/unzip software that will work with ME. Hope you have some thoughts on this fine April day. Thank you.

I have an up-to-date XP host with a recent model USB printer. Workgroup linked XP systems can see and share the printer. My ME systems cannot see the printer so they cannot share it. The ME systems can see and share folders on the XP host though. I tried the XP forum for help on the host side...

"An instance of the installer iiiis already running....." How do I clear it now? I thought by turning off it should clear but no luck? Help would be appreciated?

I have tried everything possible short of throwing the computer out the window! I am unable to reinstall my windows ME program as I have apparantly have many key components that were removed with virus clean ups nothing seems to work when I reboot with my disc #2 to reinstall windows it does not...

windows me based machine will not start up. black screen with message "drive not ready" "insert boot diskette". I can get around this by using a driver reinstall disk, but as soon as I shut the computer off and try to restart the same message appears. anyone know how to fix this. ty

Has anyone seen this error "Runtime error 424 object required"????. I receive this error everytime I start up and windows freezes so that I cannot access anything past intial startup. I need help! Oliver

I recently purchased a used HP Pavilion/WIN ME system and I planned to give it to my nephew. I scaned the disk for foul language and came up with many hits all located in c:\windows\user.dat. There are foul references to .com' s .mpeg's .jpg's etc etc. Have tired using MS Wordpad to edit...

Sorry to dump this old question again. (but I couldn't find my note from before) recently got a new cable modem and now each time i start the puter it requests a password.. Well we don't use passwords on a single machine so I was trying to remember how to remove the request.. Tks, guess...

Hi, I hope someone can advise me. Windows update tells me that conexant hsfmodemwdm driver version 3.05.20.00 is available. I have msp 3880-w 56K pci modem enumerator. I tried to download the conexant once, and it appeared succesful. Afterwards I could not go onto the internet. I assume I am...

Anyone with a suggestion on how to deal with the "Updating Hadware Information Database" box that hangs and does nothing? I also cannot install the update for Outlook Express as the machine also hangs. I've tried to upgrade to XP Home but the machine will not get past the "compatibility" section....

The video display adapter on my computer contains driver NVARCH 16.dll., file version 4.13.01.2832. I have downloaded this driver from http://www.video-drivers.com/ but it's file version is 4.12.1.368. Is this an update or a completely different driver? How is the safest way to install this...

Having problems with Win ME not being recognised and seen as Win 95 or 98. Nero 6 & Netscape 8 will not load as they report an earlier version installed. Have searched Microsoft's website and have failed to locate updated files or reason for this.??? Ron --

I've spent half a day trying to make an Addonics Ultra DigiDrive Reader co- exist with the floppy drive on a Dell Dimension 4100. The short of it is that the floppy drive uninstalls itself in BIOS. It doesn't really make sense, since the reader is an IDE device. After calls and emails to Addonics,...

Support for AVG Free 7.5 for all Windows versions ended on 31 August 2008. AVG Free 8 is not supported in WinME. AFAIK, the only AV app supported in WinME is Avast4...and who knows how long that will last? cf. www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html PS: Support for WinME ended in July 2006. No...

The MVPS HOSTS file was updated http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download: hosts.zip (105 kb) http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS file http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File - Frequently Asked Questions

I'm unable to update my IP configuration on my PC. I tried installing my DSL program & won't update? Called support and they walked me through, but IP configuration won't allow me to make changes. They suggested contacting Microsoft. Anyone know how I can update this?

I have an older PC which came with 98,2ED. Subsequently I upgraded to Windows ME. The CD is the upgrade version which will search for an earlier version of Windows before installing. I would like to have a totally clean install of ME as I attempt to track down the source of some problems. Is there...

All: A few days ago I lost the use of Win-ME, as my primary OS, the other being Windows 2000. When I startup, ME goes through the normal routine up to the green screen of Windows -- but there are no programs to chose from, no system tray, no start buttons. Something must have gotten wiped out and...