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Upside-Down Screen Contents by
noorjabal
My cat lay along the lower end of my keyboard while the computer was on -
which turned the contents of the screen upside down!
Re-booting and shutting down have failed to solve the problem. I also tried
systems restore but that didn't work either, although I'm not sure if I was
using it...
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February 3rd 10 11:23 PM
by melcyr
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Wallpaper & Icons by
Sean
Doing some personalizing.
Is there a way to ensure that the background is displayed first then the
icons?
Seems there is some colour difference surrounding each of the icons and text.
I never had a background prior and just recently established some wallpaper.
Also, how can I add/remove the...
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Unwanted 2nd Display & Adapter by
TheRealFastlane
Major Annoyance
After installing a (MadDog) Nvidia GeForce MX4000 PCI graphics card in my
6735 Pavilion (latest drivers installed), at every restart, I get new
hardware detected and windows insists on installing a default monitor AND a
PCI VGA-compatible display adapter in addition to the...
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May 4th 05 09:44 AM
by Mart
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System Restore and other problems by
Jeremy Stanford
To Mike M and Noel P,
A new thread for new and (old) problems.
1) You have been giving me advice on restoring operation
of System Restore (in Folder View Repair thread). After
reinstalling Windows from CD and reinstalling all Windows
updates, SR still fails to work.
Other problems.
2) On startup...
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3 split monitor screen by
leemsbbe
After a clean system recovery for my dell dimension, install the drivers from
the dell cd, I get a 3 split screen on the monitor upon reboot. How can I
resolve this.Your help is much appreciated, thanks
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October 1st 06 10:50 PM
by Mike M
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maximize by
Sean
where do I go to change the settings so the window is automatically maximized?
easy one ...
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December 10th 08 01:49 AM
by Doug
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large visual display - Windows ME by
Jasmine
The system will not allow me to change the display
settings. Everytime I press the apply button to increase
the pixels, the system prompts me to restart the
computer. The settings do not change.
Any suggestions?
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October 2nd 04 02:52 PM
by Mart
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activation by
coffeestain
I recently restored me on an old computer. It has an error msg, "windows
product activation must be activated with microsoft". My cd is legit, came
with my compac, what do I do?
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display settings default to 16 colors ??Smc not responding by
david
My computer's display defaults to 16 colors - 640 x 480 and will not be
reset through display/settings
with "-alt-ctrl -del" - Smc not responding is highlighted, end task frees
the computer but could this be an indication of the underlying problem
the fault seems to have arrisen since i have...
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November 21st 08 09:13 AM
by Mart
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KB891711 - problems?? by
Noel Paton
Sorry for the cross-post, but this (hopefully) may be important.
I'm attempting to correlate some data to find out the cause of people's
problems with this patch
Current advice from MS, is for those affected by the problem to either
uninstall the patch (Add/Remove Programs) or prevent it from...
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Transparent Desktop Icons by
Chuck O
I'm using an image as my wallpaper so ME is requiring that
I enable the Active Desktop. What I'm looking for is a
way to have the background on my icons appear
transparent. Any ideas? The shareware I've found won't
work with Active Desktop enabled.
Thanks
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March 29th 05 12:16 AM
by Mike M
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Monitor Problems by
Ham
I have been having some ongoing problems with my monitor reseting to a lower
refresh rate and extra default monitors loading. Booting into safe mode and
deleting the monitors hasn't solved the problem. I did a search in Google
Groups and found a suggestion to delete everything in the registry...
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August 1st 04 12:38 PM
by Ham
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Strange picture by
Me
A picture of a car brake cylinder mysteriously shows up on
my desktop just before my system shuts down. Don;t know
where it came from (although hubby is a car junky surfing
internet for car pictures - but he swears he didn't
download it) or how to find it on my hard drive to delete
it. any ideas?
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February 16th 05 02:38 PM
by Mike M
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Restore/Norton Error by
bhaviland
I reset windows to an earlier state to fix a problem but
forgot to stop Norton AV from running on startup and now
the Help Menu, System Restore, Contol Panel, My Network
Places, and various other windows and applications will
not open, display, and run correctly.
Dell tech has decided that a...
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July 30th 04 12:19 AM
by Mart
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startup by
Sean
Would like to change text
1. "starting Windows Millenium... "
2. "completed updating files, continuing to load windows..."
thanks
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March 4th 05 04:23 AM
by Sean
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tweaking by
Sean
Under the start-programs ...
is there a way to clean up this list of all the programs. I would like to
remove the items from this list that have the shortcut on the desktop.
Plus, alot of programs I dont use all of the time. Thanks.
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January 16th 05 10:25 PM
by Rick T
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screen area by
Stewart
I recently bought a 19" tft monitor and am very pleased with it but am
puzzled at a problem I am having with the screen settings.
It is a digital monitor and can take a setting of screen area 1920 x 1080
but if I set it at this then the desktop becomes a bit like a panorama scene
and the task bar,...
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May 30th 06 09:17 PM
by Mike M
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Abnormal Characters Displayed in help indexes by
Angie
I just bought a used computer from a guy who rebuilds computers in my
neighborhood. A week after I brought it home (It has Windows Me installed on
it) I started noticing little square boxes in stead of letters in my Windows
Media Player 7 menu (left sidebar links where it has "Find Media on...
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Folder View repair - no joy by
Jeremy Stanford
Mike Maltby wrote (re missing thumbnails):
Select Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SPI and Internet
Tools in Add/Remove Programs, and then from the menu that
opens select Repair. . .
Thanks for the advice but none of it worked (no newer
updates found). Run: regsrv32 thumbvw.dll hasn't...
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