When trying to re-format my hdd, I get 'The Primary DOS Partition already exists' and 'MS Win no longer supports the format /s command. Format terminated' This message could also be titled 'Directory Structure error on my PC desktop. The 'format c: /s' is shown...

After recently downloading some updates to Office & ME I have the following problems: The shortcuts on my desktop to websites have the wrong icon. If I click on the properties and click on change icon the default icon is the correct one. I then apply the changes and the correct icon is displayed on...

when I startup my computer it will instantly advise me to start up in the save-mode, running that won,t do the trick and after checking files,maps,stations(all without errors)it won,t go any further. it tells me, the computer can,t find drive programs. starting up with my recover disk doesn,t help...

I installed a new hard drive and I have windows ME on both drives. How can I switch between the two and use programmes from either drive? eg. outlook express. Any ideas Will

While trying to reinstall me in setup every thing goes just fine untill the screen saying copying files to your computer, and then I click the finish box and the system stops doing anything.

Since I bought and loaded Office XP on to my Win Me OS (it works well) but I often see the HD working away while I am not using my PC... Any Ideas as to what's happening ? It sound like it is defragging itself with out any involvement from myself...!! --

I have been trying to update windows for weeks; have gone through Lord knows how many tip articles and still no success. It installs 93%. At the end of the log, it shows these failed installations. BASEIE40_MILL MobilePk_Mill BRANDING.CAB AdvAuth In one of the checklist, it says to check the...

I posted this to the general information section last=20 evening and didn't get any response. Can someone help me? My hard drive is a serial drive run off a PCI slot. My=20 scanner isn't being read by XP, so I have created two=20 partitions on the 120G drive. One is 118G for XP, the=20 other is 2G...

I've just bought a new computer running widows XP. My old computer run Windows ME. How do I save all of my autotext from Windows ME and transfer them to my Windows XP. I've entred hundreds of autotext and would hate to lose them all.

The other day I was trying to print an application form from a website and I received the following message: Line 608 Char 1 Error Library not registered code 0 URL res://c:\windows\system\shdoclc.dll/preview.dlg Has anyone else seen this message before? Any assistance

Can someone instruct me on how to change my log on name and password to log on to windows?

I have reinstalled ME 10 times now and each time my mouse refuses to work. The mouse worked fine before, but I did a bios upgrade (old machine, newer and bigger hard drive) and now its stuck in the middle of my screen. I checked for irq conflicts, made sure that the irg span is enabled...but I...

When I try to insert my User ID in any of my mail addresses, the mouse will not insert cursor nor will the keyboard work. I tried to insert information in several web pages but it's like there is no communication between keyboard and mouse to computer. All settings are correct in the initial...

when i try to setup windows me, i found an error that stating " GENERINC INSTALLER ERROR, MESSAGE SU99407, ADD REG = PROCESSING ERROR (OX197)pls give me some sugession regards v.p. suresh

I have a copy of ME update and '98 full copy. The ME can't be installed without '98 being installed first. The '98 disc is corrupt so I can't get it to install. Someone once showed me how to put in ME and when it asks for the product number some way the '98 number is put in first so the ME will...

The hard drive will not boot, even with CD Rom support. It indicates the registry will not boot. Scandisk does not pick up everything (however does a scan surface in a second so I don't think its working) Scanreg.exe does not work, neither does a DOS restore command. Before I explore hard drive...

The C:\Windows directory has been damaged, but not beyond the point where a simple undelete could repair things. Unfortunately, I don't know all the file names and must guess the first letter of each file. I would appreciate someone giving me a directory listing of C:\Windows from a Windows ME...

Dear everyone, I did upgraded my RAM from 128 to 256MB(SDPC133). The PC worked fine. Then I changed my new Dell(ps2) mouse with a serial converter to the serial port. Thats all!! As soon as I restarted, everything gone crazy.. drivers corrupted.. So finally after a huge struggle with ME boot

All of a sudden when I press start, then programs, the first that shows up says"disable startup items" does anyone know what that means???"

i have installed windows xp pro on my kids pc but they have lots of games that will only run on me how can i install both operating systems on it so they can play the games as well as use xp for internet etc.?