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    - Delay in Using Windows ME Explorer&My Computer When using Explorer or My Computer there is a 30-45 sec. delay in gaining access to the Drives or Directories. The OS seems to be in a waiting mode - HourGlass Displayed during this delay. This happens everytime I attempt to open Explorer or My Computer. I am running Windows ME using an asus motherboard - IDE raid config as a boot up drive, an additional IDE drive (non-raid) config as a slave, a DVD Burner and CDR burner, (two units) and a 6 in 1 digital card reader. Any suggestions to correct this problem would be helpful. Thanks - Randy Tag: explorer Tag: 225238
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    - CD ROM I can't seem to find an answer for this one...and please, not too technical or I'm lost. When putting a CD in, the computer locks up, with the exception of the cursor. It doesn't matter what type, whether audio or otherwise. At times when I try to "trick" it into running the disc, and initiating the start of a game, I'll get the "Insert the disc now" message, although it's already in. Any ideas?? Thanks! Tag: explorer Tag: 225236
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    - Trouble with control panel All the entries in my add/remove icon gone! What can I do if anything? Have no idea what happened. Thanks for any responses... Tag: explorer Tag: 225231
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    - opening files When I'm on the internet and I want to down load something , it will ask if I want to open it or save it. When I click open it doesn't ask with what program , it just uses cd creater which of course wont open it. What do I do? Thanks Tag: explorer Tag: 225230
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    - Defrag starts running on its own Hi all - I have been having a problem with the defrag starting to run all of a sudden, seemingly on its own. The scandisk does not run first, only the defrag starts up. It does not happen at any particular time of the day, or day of the week, as if it is a scheduled activity. But, usually when it starts to run, the machine has been idle for a while. I have gone into another room for about 15-20 minutes, and when I come back, the defrag program is running..? I do not have it set to run on any particular schedule, or..at least not intentionally. I run the scandisk manually at least every couple of days, and the defrag every month or so, depending on my computer activities. I have updated and run my SpyBot, Adaware, AV's, HijackThis and Stinger. Perhaps a bit of overkill, but, I seem to be hunting a ghost, so I called on all the GhostBusters I could think of. ;-) I'd truly appreciate any suggestions, information or input, in hopes it might shed some light on what may be causing this odd behavior. Then perhaps I might have an idea where else to start troubleshooting to find what/where is causing the defrag to autorun. Best regards, Jan :) Tag: explorer Tag: 225225
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    - Errors??? When i turn on my computer before it loads, i get this black screen and it says at the topleft hand corner, WININIT.EXE : Missing/Unable to load. Press any key to continue... After i do so it loads as usual then i get this other message a circle with a red X, Windows cannot find '/P'. You may have typed the name incorrectly in the Run dialog, or another program cannot find a System file, click the strat button, and then click search. I have tried to use System Restore but it wont work, it tells me that System restore was Unable to restore to an earlier time and that nothing has changed. Can anybody help with all this errors... Tag: explorer Tag: 225224
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    - Explorer error in kernel32.dll When I'm on the internet I frequently get an error that states " Explorer has caused an error in kernel32.dll and will be shut down" It generally happens when I try and click on web links to open up other sites. Any suggestions? Thanks Tag: explorer Tag: 225218
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    - Windows update freeze My computer is freezing at the windows update after the dialog box comes up stating "Checking for the latest version....." Also, the same thing happens if I try the windows update troubleshooter. I have McAfee virus scan but I disabled it to do this, I have no firewall installed, and I've tried rebooting several times and trying again. Help! Tag: explorer Tag: 225216
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    - Restore Folder REspected Sir/Madam I want to know that can we delete Restore Folder in Window ME & what is the use of this folder. Regards Mangal Tag: explorer Tag: 225209
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    - can't download windows updates Hi, I have been going into my windows updates that opens in my start menu. When I click on it to search for updates to my windows ME, it says I have 3 critical updates. I click on "install now", then it looks like it's going to start the upgrade but the progress stays a 0 and nothing happens. When I go into my update history, it says they all failed. My computer has been acting weird for about 6 months now but it's not too bad. I can still use it fine. I just have a feeling that there is a problem pn my C drive. I have run all virus scans and things to check your computer and it doesn't find anything. There is some reason why I cand download the updates and sometimes I cand do the maintenance. When it gets to disc defrag, it stays on 0 also. Ant suggestions? Is there some program I can run that will check my hard drive for problems? There must be something messed up somewhere. Thanks for your time! God Bless, Jill :o) Tag: explorer Tag: 225203
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    - boot disk Is there any way I can download the things I need to create a startup disk for ME. My system is cooked at the moment so I can use Windows ME to create the disk. Yeah I know that I should have done it before crashing my system. Thanks for your time. Tag: explorer Tag: 225196
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    - powrprof.dll Anybody can help with this error "powrprof.dll?. I am running windows me Tag: explorer Tag: 225195
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    - usbntmap.sys not found I Installed software for a sony dsc-p32 camera. When I plug in the usb: error reads "usbntmap.sys" not found. any way to fix this or load the correct driver. My computer is a gateway and i do not have the windows ME disks. thanks Tag: explorer Tag: 225194
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    - Can no longer read .jpg files Anyone know what I can do? After uninstalling some things I can no longer read .jpg files. Please help! Thanks Tag: explorer Tag: 225190
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    - video mode blank screen when color bits were changed can not find mouse to change color back to origianl state Tag: explorer Tag: 225189
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    - hot keys not working Hi all, My problem.... Cntl>enter in address bar in IE 6 to complete url and cntl>left mouse button to select several non-consecutive files in windows explorer what to do???? Help would really be appreciated. Tag: explorer Tag: 225187
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    - wjview error System: Sony Vaio PCV-RX370DS ME Visioneer OneTouch 8920 USB Scanner HP LaserJet 1012 HP Photosmart 7350 series printer Receive error on boot up: "WJView Error: Could not execute Main. System cannot find the specified file." System then tries to find the file matcli in MSDOS. Nothing happens. Did a search for matcli and found this error log Matcli C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\hpis\log ================= Logging initialized at 191003 12:31:36.080 ================= 191003 12:31:43.380 ERROR,[fff5b953] matu_Win32_Exec: CreateProcess("C:\Program Files\Hewlett- Packard\hpis\bin\mpbtn.exe") failed. GetLastError = The system cannot find the file specified. Tag: explorer Tag: 225186
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    - Security Update Downloads Hi, Is there any way a person can download all of the Windows Me and IE6 security updates at one time so I can save them on a CD? If I can't download all of them, how about most of them. The reason is that I am planning to do a reformat of my system and would like to download the security updates ahead of time. I am on dial up and all the downloads take almost 1 day to download and install. Thanks, Tag: explorer Tag: 225184
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    - Reinstall Windows Over Top Of Itself I have windows ME installed, can I put in my disc and reinstall windows over top of itself? I was hoping to correct some glitches I have in my system. Will I lose any data? or email? or anything? Thank You Bruce Tag: explorer Tag: 225181
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    - computer wont shutdown After I used the recovery discs for my computer it wont shutdown it restarts all over agian. Please help I have hp8755c Tag: explorer Tag: 225180
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    - HELP! Windows ME won't thumbnail JPEG files I have Windows ME and I cannot get a thumbnail pic to appear for JPEG files. The thumbnail will come up for TIFF files but not JPEG. This only happened within the past day. Can anyone tell me what may have changed? Thanks. Gordon E-mail me at gasirek@yahoo.com Tag: explorer Tag: 225177
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    - missing files I need to load the two files in order for my camera to connect. The message that I get says to insert my Windows ME disk but, all I have is a restore disk. The files I need are USBNTMAP.SYS and USBSTOR.SYS. Any idea where I can find these. Thanx Tag: explorer Tag: 225176
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    - No sound I have Windows ME on my HP computer. I recently received notification of a Windows update and did the update only to find out afterwards that I had lost all my sound and the ability to open any attachments. Can anyone help me get it back to normal? Tag: explorer Tag: 225170
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    - windows me not working all the time why does windows me NOT work any of the time or if it does for very brief periods of time????????? Tag: explorer Tag: 225168
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    - Control Panel Hey there, can anybody out there help me? When I try to use the control panel on my computer, I get the following message, "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." Does anybody know what this means and how I can correct it? Thanks for your assistance. Tag: explorer Tag: 225159
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    - TEMP files How do I know which TEMP files I need and which ones I can keep?? I have many Kazaa temp files that are clogging up my disk space..... Tag: explorer Tag: 225158
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    - TEMP files How do I determine which TEMP files I need and which ones I can delete? Tag: explorer Tag: 225155
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    - ME Won't update Freezes can't load programs Hi Everyone---okay My ME will Not Update......it just freezes and now when I tried to load a printer combo it just freezes up as well.................any ideas? Would getting XP take car of the problems of ME....any thoughts!? Thank Yorkies are us. Tag: explorer Tag: 225143
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    - install error on new hard drive with full install of oem ME I replaced a hard drive (same kind and same size) for my brother. The Me is oem full version of software. It installs all the way to where it says it's loading plug & play and non plug & play devices. I get a blue screen with an error of 0E : 032F : 0000776B also say the hit any key to return to windows or alt ctrl del to restart. I did the return to windows and all I got was a black screen. I tried to restart several times and same thing comes up. I'm ready to throw the thing out the door. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Molly Tag: explorer Tag: 225141
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    - No sound on computer I have a HP computer with Windows ME edition on it. I recently received notification of a Windows update and did the update. After completing the update I now have NO sound at all and cannot open any attachments at all. What can I do? I have went into everything in my contol panel that I thought might help, but nothing does. Thanks for your help. Tag: explorer Tag: 225140
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    - Missing thumbnails Recently my thumbnails are missing from Explore. I have it set for the icons, then when I click on an icon, a little thumbnail shows just under the info for that file. I tried checking winfile "associate" and that doesn't work either. Any suggestions on how I can get my thumbnails back?? When I set it on show "thumbnails" It's just a box with nothing in it. Tag: explorer Tag: 225133
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    - windows con not access "windows con not acces the especified device or you may not have the permission to open this file" THIS THE MESSAGE I GET EVERY TIME I TRY TO DO SOMETHING ON MY COMPUTER Tag: explorer Tag: 225131
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    - Computer Freezes spool32[not responding] during web page print If I try to print a web page from ME Internet Explorer 6.0 that contains a data field (looks like a box for you to enter in information),my computer freezes. If I Ctrl-Alt- Delete to see the list of tasks that are running, one is listed as spool32[not responding]. I can print with all other applications (Word,Excel, etc.) and no problem printing web pages that do not have data entry boxes. I have tried printing the same web page that I get the error on from on a different computer (with XP) and I was able to print the web page just fine. Any ideas? Tag: explorer Tag: 225125
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    - Windows ME Error message. I received the following error message IAMPP and I cannot access IE. Many thanks Johnny D. Tag: explorer Tag: 225124
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    - Deleted entire OS Somehow my kids have deleted the OS (Millenium) from my pc. To make things worse my cd rom was broken so I could not reformat and reistall. I have since put a new cd/rw drive in but the bios does not recognize it. Is there a way to install the driver so that I can then reistall the OS. The pc does boot up but then all I get is a blank desktop. Any help would be greatly appreciated Tag: explorer Tag: 225123
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    - windows startup without using password hi i don't know what i did but all of a sudden i get prompted to sign before windows loads. it said once as tip not to type a password and just click cancel and then next time you would not be asked. well i did that but now i still get asked and i just click cancel and go on but i don't want to have to do that but i don't know how to correct it. please help!!!!!!! it is driving me crazy because i never used to have to do that. thank you for your help. jerry Tag: explorer Tag: 225120
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    - auto startup When I turn on my computer, it automatically starts my web browser. How do i stop this from happening and simply see my desktop? Tag: explorer Tag: 225112
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    - Copying to CD/RW Drive I have successfully backed up Quicken and have copied CDs to a newly installed CD/RW drive. However when I try to copy My Document files in Windows ME, I get the message "Please insert a disk into Drive F" I get this message whether the disk is a CD/R or CD/RW. I tried to follow Microsoft Knowledge Base article 189526 but step 3 didn't work because there was no "property" option. Perhaps Windows ME lacks the appropriate driver. How do I fix this? Tag: explorer Tag: 225111
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    - No hits when searching in these Newsgroups... Clicked on the "Search" button right after the "New Post/Post Reply" buttons and have tried different search parameters, dates, fields, etc. NO hits. Anybody else having this problem. Have IE 6.0, OS XP home edition. Much thanks, char. Tag: explorer Tag: 225105
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    - Popups I nave the google toolbar, have ran ad-aware, spybot and CW Shredder and I still get popups in IE, does anybody have any suggestions. Jeff Tag: explorer Tag: 225103
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    - Help!!!!!!!!!!!!! when I start Windows ME: i get error: Cannot find C:/WINDOWS/SYnDLL.exe Windows needs SYnDLL.exe to run RunDLL.exe. then when ever i click on any program nothing will happens. Nothing opens up. Anyone have a clue what's going on and how to fix this? Thanks ambrodie Tag: explorer Tag: 225101
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    - dsl and phone dialer Can I still use my phone dialer now that I have dsl? If so, how? Tag: explorer Tag: 225096
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    - how do I turn off running programs? i know I have programs running in the background,I dont need them running all the time, how do I have them not running unless I need them, I know the (cnt alt delete ) but i dont want to turn the programs off every time I turn on the computer Tag: explorer Tag: 225092
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    - Explorer Error My friend just sent me an odd message over ICQ, it reads: i cant start IE or my computer, each time it says 'explorer has caused an error in VX2.dll explorer will now close i've restared it twice and shut it down once and i still have the problem I have never used Windows ME, having made the leap from 98SE straight to XP Pro. Does anyone have any ideas about what this message means and how to solve the problem? Regards Andi Tag: explorer Tag: 225090
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    - Screensaver My screensaver doesn't always work. What can I do to make it work every time? Tag: explorer Tag: 225089
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    - wont refresh dont know what i did but now when i go to a visited web page , i have to refresh manualy to get the current page ??? what can i do to fix it. thanks in advance Tag: explorer Tag: 225088
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    - microsoft updates i've been trying for 2 weeks to update milenium and xp on my 2 computers, nothing but error messages. the xp downloaded for 3 hours then did not install? any help??? Tag: explorer Tag: 225084
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    - "Hang Up" during install I'm trying to reinstall Windows Me on my machine due to problems discussed earlier (corruption of Explorer.exe). However, when the installer begins "Setting up Hardware" and the box reads "Windows Millenium Edition is now setting up your hardware and any Plug and Play devices you may have ..." with 15 minutes remaining, my computer stops responding or hangs up. I've followed the instructions and turn the machine off and then back on numerous times, but continue to hang at that point. I've even allowed the machine to sit for ~2-hours, hoping it would continue on with the install. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for your help! Kirk Tag: explorer Tag: 225068
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    - corrupted icons Desktop Icons & Folders Icons Corrupted As soon as i came out the internet, my desktop icons background turn white in color. This is there for 2 - 3 days after that it was restored automatically. I checked for virus but no virus is there.. And it take nearly 3minutes to boot the system even I cleared all the temp files. I formatted my hard disk & again I installed WindowsME, it seems to be good for somedays then the same problem occurs. I'm able to find teh solution for this issue. My system configuration is Intel PIII - 1Ghz, 256MB RAM, Intel 845 original motheboard, 8x DVD-ROM, 20Gb Hard disk. Please tell me how to solve this issue. Tag: explorer Tag: 225058
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    - Windows ME DOS bootup How do I startup Win ME in DOS? Thanks! Tag: explorer Tag: 225056

this is a wird one ok.the blue bar at the bottom of the page will load a web
pages head first then the text,then the graphic,s,loading the page 3 times.i
get no errors.but it,s not working right any ideas.thanks

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