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    - Japanese text I have the facility to produce Japanese character (kanji & kana) e-mails and Word documents which works perfectly, but some recipients in Japan receive the message in Chinese characters. Is there anybody out there who can suggest solution? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248099
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    - Protection from coolwebsearch I had a real badd version of cool web search on my system that I couldnt get rid off. I would identify it using hijack this and winpatrol and delete it. but it would just come back on reboot. I unistalled ME and then ran adaware, spybot, cwshredder. and then reinstalled ME.Is there any other protection against reinfection? -- I hate ME Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248087
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    - Me to xp I want to change operating systems from ME to xp pro. Ive got a Dell petium 4 1300 mhz What would i need to do. Thanks Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248083
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    - Norton installation Killed "open with" dialoge ??? Fix??? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248081
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    - "Open With" missing from Dialoge box After installing Norton AntiVirus, "Open With" is missing from Right click Dialoge box... How to fix? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248080
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    - I deleted rundll.32 how do i reinstall Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248079
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    - Can ME be restored after registry is corrupted? The registry in the ME partition on my PC appears to be so badly corrupted that Windows, when opened in Safe Mode, does not have anything except for the Desktop to show. But there are a number of applications of interest to me installed there. Is there any way to re-install ME and revive those applications? P. Jayant Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248076
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    - gojheikh.exe Does anyone know what gojheikh.exe is? Recently, when I tried to shut down my laptop, I got a warning message that gojheikh.exe is closing. I waited and clicked "cancel", and then nothing happened. So I tried to shut down again, but the same message poped up again. I clicked "end now", and it could shut down as usual. I wondered what happen. After I searched in my laptop, I found two files with this name, gojheikh. One is an exe file (it is located under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32), and the other is a PF file (located under C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch). Can someone please explain what they are for. Thanks! Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248075
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    - Using Kato's Restoration.exe FAT32 Undelete File [this is edited version of post in thread in non-MS Company's newsgroups. Posted in XP group cuz it's busy :-) ] Quick background: Computer is Win Me, FAT32 one HD, no partitions. yesterday, cleaning out files. Today, two low level folders are gone. It's possible they were wiped out by crashes, since recently, I have to restart the computer multiple times. I haven't found a backup system that works with CDs and overly long names, without hours of manual hunting and editing. So most recent backups are incomplete, and didn't include one of these low level folders (grrr) to avoid overwriting clusters on the "sick" computer, I'm using this other computer (on the net now) for any purpose but Restoration. . Restoration.exe: 1 I'm choosing all of the options. For instance, a first one cannot use "*" wildcard, so I used just the period "." However I see more than 50k files, so I'll need some mass ignore or delete scheme. 2 Kato's Read Me has a 2nd section of instructions. "All clusters scan (FAT partition)" Is this section referring to the step in the instructions above, "if you want to scan vacant clusters, if you couldn't find your target file, please select yes. (FAT partition)" ????? 3 to avoid concurrent over writing, should I use CTRL+Alt+Del to kill resident apps, such as win's Restore? Seems I should. But, very few apps can be killed in ctrl+alt+del :( hidserv, rundll, systray. AntiVirus ware. That's about it. 4 While doing tedious manual sifting, can I copy to a networked drive? (I may discover the answer to this soon, when Restoration.exe finishes its sweep) TIA, and T later Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248069
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    - Baffling IE6 problem... The following is from a fellow I am working with who is having major IE6 browser problems......and I know I should recognize that error. His browser was totally useless so I figured he had a browser hijacker. He has XP Home, not ME.....but we have used AdAware, Spybot, Stinger, Norton, CWS and HiJack This and nothing shows up...... Any ideas folks?? He can't use his browser at all. I have had to email him some of the smaller spyware programs. OE works. Mow Green on Aumha is working hard on it.....but damned if I can figure this one out. Final clue.....just got an email from a mutual friend and he got *spam* from this fellow.....so does he have a trojan? Virus?? Not spyware apparently...... Baffled......Figgs First, I just observed that the Internet Explorer goes to this web address each time I open it: res://C:\WINDOWS\System32\shdoclc.dll/dnserror.htm Does that give any clue? I typed in www.yahoo.com under "Open" and it just gave the same "This page cannot be open" message. Then I closed IE and started it again, and the same "Windows" address showed up. My normal start up page is CNN. Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248063
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    - Spool32 error/spool 32 error Whenever I click on Printer from either inside the Control Panel or using Start|Control Panel|Printers, I get the below error no matter if I'm in Normal or Safe Mode: ----------------------------------------------------------- Spool32 has caused an error in Kernal32.dll Spool32 will close now CLOSE ------------------------------------------------------------ I click CLOSE and PC locks up. Have to do a CTRL-ALT-DELETE then it shows: Printer (Not Responding) ---------------------------------------- I then click End Task to clear error window. There is a Canon BJ printer showing there and I want to remove it and add a Lexmark but it won't allow me to do either. Any help or suggestions? -- Thanks.....Bill Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248052
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    - e-bay BULK MAIL probs my messages from ebay sellers keep ending up in my bulk mail. i have no blocked senders so why is this happening!? how do i stop it? THANKS Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248047
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    - Errors during startup I am running Windows ME and during the startup sequence I get the following error messages: MSGRV32 has caused an error in IPHLPAPI.DLL; Autochk has caused an error in KRNL386.exe; Shadow has caused an error in IPHLPAPI.DLL; and Wallpapr has caused an error in IPHLPAPI.DLL. I acknowledge each error message as they come up. My PC appears to load properly after the messages are acknowledged. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Bob 422 Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248046
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    - AMI BIOS I have a Tiny 800mhx AMD on a MS-6340 main board. I installed an orignal roxio photo-suite 5 and when i restarted after the install my computer wouldn't even launch the bios page. This is what has happened on various different restarts. I reset the bios and changed the battery. BIOS page loaded and said CMOS Settings Wrong and CMOS/GPNV Checksum BAD. press f1 to set up or F2 to load defaults. Sometimes the keyboard doesn't respond here, and some time it does but i just get a black screen with blinking _ in the top left. Sometime when i restart i just get CMOS Settings Wrong and the same as above happens. Now I cant even get that, i just get a blinking _ in the top left corner. I have changed the memory and unplugged all the hardware and reseated everything but it dont make any difference. Some times I get a 2 beep error message other times i get a 2beep, 1 beep code. Before i installed this Roxio Photo-Suite it was working fine. THANKS Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248045
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    - Drive Showing in My Computer Not in My Computer I have used a removeable USB drive and once when I removed the drive the Drive name and letter did not leave from my computer. Now I have a "permanent" removeable "E" drive that does not really exist. Any ideas how to remove it or fix the problem? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248041
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    - Computer Problems My computer often decides to lock up at random times. I have to seperate drives, so that I do not overload one given drive. I cannot scandisk, because it tells me that the computer is writing to the drive or run any other program to assist my computer. Please respond kevin Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248038
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    - how to do a registry backup Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248031
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    - V x D Volt Error message When I try to start up Windows ME it starts to load then gives a error message-- V X D Voltrack (04) then it tells me to press any key. The screen turns black with hourglass and cursor showing. the only to turn off computer is to disconnect it. Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248030
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    - Fake updates? I have received : From: Ascentive Updates Subject : Ascentive News and activeSpeed Update telling me to install the update, and if I don't have the original I can install it too. Both the above are free. I don't recall having install this software before. How would I know if it is a fake or a virus/hacker attempt? How does one go about identifying if such attempts are genuinine in future? TIA Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248011
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    - Caution? Or is it just me?? Downloaded the latest Windows Update security patch (867801) and my computer had a non-stop series of errors.....Msgxxx that shut down IE....Java had a problem and shut down IE....screens kept freezing and general bad behaviour. Did a system restore within a few minutes of this odd behaviour and all is now fine. Nothing else had been changed and I just restored back 4 hours. Maybe see if anyone else has any problems??? That was the Cumulative Update one. Cheers.....Heather Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248003
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    - Wanted: simple, free firewall for WinME One of my machines is running on WinME and I'm looking for a very simple and free firewall to block inbound traffic only. I don't need logging or any other whistles and bells. I've tried the allegedly stable 4.5 version of Zone Alarm but it created all kinds of problems with other software so I uninstalled it. Any suggestions anyone? Terry Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 248001
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    - sound Have lost all sound. message comes up no sound device is loaded.I may have removed it (dont Know)but I think it might be PCI audio?I would appreciate your help Thank you. Owen Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247999
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    - Error when shutting down windows Everytime I shutdown, I get a blue screen with the following error message: vwin32(05)+000012D0 Error: OE: 0028: C02A44A8 What can I do to fix this error? Any ideas? I noticed that there were lots of other people experiencing the same error, and the advice which was given seems too advanced for myself to attempt! Anything simple out there to solve this error? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247993
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    - Start Menu/Favorites link shortcuts don't work WINDOWS ME-IE 6.0 All the favorite links from the start menu get a message with a red X. "This file does not have a program associated with it for perfoming this action. Create an association in the foldeer Options control panel." Anyone know how to fix this? If I open the Ineteret Explorer from the desktop and then go to favorites they work because the Explorer's .exe has already been executed. Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247990
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    - MS WINDOWS aside from being a buggy, unstable, security nightmare and a resource hog that can't manage memory properly, ms windows (any version) is crap. if you're a windows user you should seriously consider switching to linux. helpful linux links: desktop http://suse.com/us/private/ http://lycoris.com http://linspire.com http://redhat.com/fedora/ server http://suse.com/us/business/ http://redhat.com/software/rhel/ http://mandrakesoft.com/ info http://linux.com http://linux.net http://pclinuxonline.com Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247981
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    - Start up error device PERF Had normal shutdown last nite, on start up this a.m., got a blue screen and,"while initializing device PERF windows protection error. restart computer" When I restart it takes me to Dos and I can select Safe mode which loads ok. ran scan disk, ok. Any thoughts what to do? Thanks Larry Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247979
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    - Outlook Express keeps shutting down .....after a few minutes. It's been fine for 3 years and now this. My Outlook Express totally closes without warning after a few minutes. I also get "Outlook Express did not shut down properly" just as if I shut the computer down from the CPU. I have rebooted several times, done a complete surface scan I have done CWshredder that gets rid of left over spyware..I have deleted all my temp files and my recent history files. Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247977
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    - Ping Mike M Well, believe it or not, Google answered my question regarding Real Player and the Google bar: Hi Alias, Thank you for taking the time to report this problem. We recently released a new version of the Google Toolbar that resolves the problem you reported. Please try uninstalling and reinstalling the Google Toolbar. To do this, please follow the instructions below. 1. Select 'Settings' from the Windows 'Start' menu. 2. Click on 'Control Panel' and then 'Add or Remove Programs.' 3. Select 'Google Toolbar for IE' and click the 'Remove' button. Once the Toolbar is uninstalled, please close all Microsoft Internet Explorer windows. Then, reinstall the Google Toolbar by visiting http://toolbar.google.com We appreciate your taking the time to report this crash. Thank you for using the Google Toolbar. Regards, The Google Team Original Message Follows: ------------------------ From: "Alias" < Subject: Re: [#12707445] Google Tool Bar and Real Player Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:05:44 +0200 ----- Original Message ----- From: toolbar-support@ To: Alias Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [#12707445] Google Tool Bar and Real Player Thank you for your message. This auto-generated email is to confirm that we received your inquiry. In order for us to assist you with a question or to utilize your feedback about the Toolbar, please reply to this message with the following information: 1. Google Toolbar version number: To find the version number, please do one of the following: Click on the 'Google' logo button and select 'About Google Toolbar.' Or, click on the 'Google' logo button, select 'Help' and then 'About the Google Toolbar.' Please send us the entire line containing the version number, including the four letter suffix. Version: 2.0.112/big/en (GGLD) 2. Advanced Features settings: Is your Google Toolbar installed with or without advanced features enabled? If you've enabled the 'PageRank' or 'Category' button on your Google Toolbar, then it is running with Advanced Features. Advanced. 3. Operating System (Windows 98, Windows XP, etc.) XP Pro 4. Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) version number: To find your IE version number, go to the IE 'Help' drop-down menu and click on 'About Internet Explorer.' 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633 5. List of any other browser plug-ins. This includes Toolbars, Popup Blockers, and any applications designed for Internet Explorer. None, although I do have Spywareguard, Spybot, Search and Destroy and Spywareblaster. If you've sent us a suggestion, your Toolbar version number is all we need. Occasionally, we can point out existing Toolbar features you may have missed. Please reply to this email with any of the information above not included in your original email. We appreciate your taking the time to contact us, and you'll be hearing from us soon. Regards, The Google Team I look forward to your reply. Thanks again, Alias <<<<< Now, to see if their suggestion works ... Alias Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247972
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    - Share Command Missing I've lost the command to share a folder in the context menu when I right-click on a folder. Is there a registry setting to restore the command? I had recently lost the "New" command also but was able to restore it through the registry. My existing shares are still accessible, but I'm not able to modify the settings or unshare the folder. I'm not certain what's causing the disappearing commands. I've thoroughly checked the system, and it appears to be clean. Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247970
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    - Paint Paint has disappeared from my computer. I've searched and it cannot find. What happened and what can I do to fix it? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247969
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    - leave on or turn off?? My father-in-law has a 5 year old computer and was told by a technician that it is perfectly fine to leave the computer on 24/7 and there will be no risk of damage or other problems resulting from that. What do all of you think? I was taught that it is better on computer components if they are given an opportunity to cool down and that Windows was designed to be rebooted at least once every day. Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247965
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    - enabled dma - lost dvdrom I enabled dma in device manager and after re boot have lost dvd drive - in device manager there is now nowhere to undo the dma setting. I had sys restore disabled oops! Does anyone know of a fix? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247959
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    - Error message What causes this error message quite often when I get on the internet? Error 0E : 0028 : C008782E Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247958
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    - CW Shredder ? Anybody else having trouble trying to get updates? About 24 hour now I have been getting "Server Unavailable".. -- Burt The Old Alaskan MVP's listed on TECKPAGE http://www.cvinternet.net/~smokydog http://www.cvinternet.net/~smokydog/teckpage.htm Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247957
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    - for WinME users An insteresting place for WinME users: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsme/default.asp Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247954
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    - My mouse is confused,Help When I double left click my mouse on a program or a Icon, I receive a drop down menu and then have to right click "open". My mouse use to open everything that I would double left click. Please help me to get this function back. Thank you, PJ Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247952
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    - Everything I type stays!! Everytime I type something into a field (like yahoo search or to save files) it stays. So everything I type comes up in a little box undernearth the field box. Anyway to get rid of it? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247950
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    - Need to install a driver I currently have the Windows ME operating system on my Compaq computer. When I purchased this computer they did not provide the ME disc for me and now I am trying to install a 1394 - 4 port Firewire card so I can run a Zip 750 MB Firewire Drive, and I don't have the drive I need or the ME disc to install it. I would greatly appreciate if you could email me the driver so I can download it onto my operating system. Thank you, Nadia Roberts Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247948
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    - lexplore error message in ATOMPART.EXE. ikeep getting error message that reads..lexplore has caused an error in ATOMPART.EXE. does anyone have any idea how to cure this problem Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247943
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    - spell check i have just switched from one service to comcast which uses outlook express for e-mailing. i am unable to get my spell check to work. can anyone help me? thank you Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247937
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    - Tired of Viruses Ok, here is a new issue for me, but by far the most frustrating. I have run all 3 of my virus programs, all say I'm clean, yet when I go launch my home page (yahoo), it loads for a second, then switches to "about:blank" (some search page virus). What's worse, is when I go to MSN to check my Hotmail, it will let me sign in, see that I have 12 messages there, then quick flash to that "about:blank". I have not been able to get my email in days, nor will it let me get to any "Help" or "Contact us" pages at either MSN or Yahoo. I continually edit the information in the registry to remove any mention of "about:blank", yet even with system restore off, it does not save may changes. Any help offered would be very appreciated, I am so ready to give up and just toss this thing out the window. Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247934
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    - File Sharing Problem I hope this is the appropriate newsgroup for this issue. =20 If not, please direct me to the correct one. I have 2 home computers hooked-up to a wireless network=20 via a Linksys router. I use the network for Internet,=20 printer and file sharing. One computer is a desktop HP=20 with Win ME; the other is an IBM laptop with Win 98. =20 Recently, I have not able to use the file-sharing=20 feature. (The Internet and printer sharing capabilities=20 still work O.K.). When I try to access the desktop files from the laptop, I=20 get the following when I click on the shortcut: “The drive or network connection that the shortcut ‘HP C=20 Drive.Ink’ refers to is unavailable. Make sure that the=20 disk is properly inserted or the network is available and=20 then try again.” When I try to access the laptop from the desktop, I get=20 the following: “The shortcut ‘IBM Drop Box.Ink’ refers to a location = that=20 is unavailable. The location could be on a hard drive on=20 this computer, on a network, or on a different computer on=20 your home network. Check to make sure that the disk is=20 properly inserted, or that you are connected to the=20 Internet or home network, and the try again.” When I click on O.K., I then get the following: C:\WINDOWS\NetHood\laptop on Ibm refers to a location that=20 is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this=20 computer, on a network, or on a different computer on your=20 home network. Check to make sure that the disk is=20 properly inserted, or that you are connected to the=20 Internet or home network, and then try again. If it still=20 cannot be locate, the information might have been moved to=20 a different location. Both computers are on when I try this and it appears the=20 network is up and running, as I am able to access the=20 Internet and printer from both computers. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247932
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    - Assign sound to CAPs LOCK key I am sure this can be done but cant remeber how anyone help? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247926
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    - NOD32 Error Message Using the scanner in NOD32, I encounter the following error message in blue letters: "Error occured while scanning MBR sector of the third physical disk. Error reading sector." I have two disks, one with four partitions and one alone. C,E,G and F are part of the partitioned disk and D is by itself. Which is the third one and how can this error be fixed, if possible. Or can it be ignored, since it doesn't cause any problems at all? My Registry Mechanic doesn't detect anything wrong! Thanks. Harry. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.727 / Virus Database: 482 - Release Date: 7/26/2004 Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247908
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    - Putting Icon on Start Bar RH side What is the right hand side of the Start Bar called? And how does one put an icon on the right hand side where the time, volume control etc are? I've done it several times before but my mind has gone completely blank now. Incidentally, I could just drag and put one on the LH side which is easy. What actually is the difference between the two. I know on the LH side it is only a shortcut while those on the RH side are memory resident. Any into appreciated. As I said, my mind has gone completely blank. Must be my age! -- choro-nik *********** Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247906
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    - outlook express msoe error I am getting a error msoe will not load..the system in windows me...i am not sure where to find out what outlook i have now.....is there an easy way to fix this without uninstaling outlook and reinstalling another outlook? I use RR as my internet service..... Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247902
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    - virus issue I ran my antivirus software AVG and it had listed 8 trojan horse type viruses that it said could not be removed. FileC:\_RESTORE\TEMP\A0004051.CPY Trojan horse PSW.Bispy.A " 4052.CPY " Downloader.Bho.A " 4053.CPY " " .Apropro.D " 4054.CPY " " .Apropro.L " 4055.CPY " " .Apropro.J " 4056.CPY " " .Apropro.M " 4057.CPY " " .Dyfica.2.W " 4058.CPY " " .Dyfica.2.Z I am not having any luck trying to figure out how to remove these from my computer. Any suggestions? I appreciate your expertise! Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247891
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    - restarting problem computer always restarts every minute can someone tell me what it is Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247889
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    - Who out there has constant problems with WinME? Am I the only one who DOESN'T seem to have constant problems with Windows ME and am happy with it? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247886
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    - Cannot Defrag ! I have tried to defrag my system, I get a message saying that there are errors on C drive. Scandisk keeps restarting saying that there are programs still running, however I have closed all programs. Can anyone help ? Tag: my floppy disk drive stop working Tag: 247881

Dear Sir After I put a 720kb disk into it, my floppy disk
drive start show: the disk has not formatted... Please
help me. I worry I distroyed my floppy driver by being
silly of putting a old fashion disk. Am I right? How can I
do to recover it?

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Re: my floppy disk drive stop working by David

David
Sun Aug 01 07:09:13 CDT 2004

Get a new floppy drive. And don't assume the masculine.

There are some *great* female repliers in this News Group [can you say Heather ? :-)]

Dave

"Helen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:820501c477b7$81075b40$a501280a@phx.gbl...
| Dear Sir After I put a 720kb disk into it, my floppy disk
| drive start show: the disk has not formatted... Please
| help me. I worry I distroyed my floppy driver by being
| silly of putting a old fashion disk. Am I right? How can I
| do to recover it?

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