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    - Digital pictures I'm downloading pictures from the digital camera to Canon PowerShot program.I run Windows ME.Can you tell me how to download(sand those pictures on CD disk.Thanks!!! Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215307
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    - chat can someone tell me if there is some way to block someone from getting on any and all chat lines?thanks Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215304
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    - Logon screen at startup How can I stop the logon screen from coming up everytime I start the computer? I have deleted the PWL files and the profile list in the registry. Reinstalled Client for microsoft networks also. Please help Dan Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215303
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    - krnl386.exe and kernell32.dll errors Support, Over the past week or two, I have randomly received the following error messages for krnl386.exe and kernell32.dll while using the internet (Internet Explorer). My operating system is Windows ME and I have both McAfee and Norton's running on my system and have not been able to find any known viruses or errors. Below I have provided the logs from the fault log file. Please tell me my next steps to fix this issue. Thank you. Craig Grant *********************************************************** *********** Date 10/19/2003 Time 09:37 EXPLORER caused a stack fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0187:bff64277. Registers: EAX=81ae3e50 CS=0187 EIP=bff64277 EFLGS=00000283 EBX=04af9fa0 SS=018f ESP=04af9f84 EBP=04af9fe6 ECX=ddaeef60 DS=018f ESI=04af9fe0 FS=3bcf EDX=0001bd04 ES=018f EDI=04af8030 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: eb 95 8b 54 24 04 50 e8 04 00 00 00 58 c2 04 00 Stack dump: bff64283 00000000 bff43c6d 0001bd04 00000000 00000003 04af9fa8 af777fa4 09ef4013 00000964 00000532 00000000 82c249a0 000df5db 0000016d 00000051 *********************************************************** *********** Date 10/19/2003 Time 09:37 EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module KRNL386.EXE at 0001:00006655. Registers: EAX=00000001 CS=0167 EIP=00006655 EFLGS=00000202 EBX=04b2ffbc SS=3bd7 ESP=00008a98 EBP=04aefaa4 ECX=bff60001 DS=018f ESI=00008a98 FS=3bcf EDX=bffbb490 ES=018f EDI=00003bd7 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 36 c7 06 0a 00 10 00 66 5e 5f 90 0e e8 d2 b1 51 Stack dump: 00000001 faa40001 018f04ae 04aefac4 ffbc3bcf 018f04b2 bff61c57 81ae0187 04b2ffbc 00000001 00000001 04aefb3c bff61ccb 00000001 04b2ffbc bffbc070 Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215302
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    - Norton detects boot record change As a general principal, do Windows updates ever change the system boot record? If so, should the update description say so? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215301
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    - Error 1006 Help! Am trying to establish an Internet connection on a computer. I get the message: (yellow triangle) The modem resources conflict with another hardware. Please update the configuration. Error 1006 (Maybe not exact words) I checked the IRQs and had several things on IRQ 9 - the 56k modem, some audio CODEC, and something else as well as the Holder for PCI steering. Any suggestions? I might have to repost as I am not near this troublesome computer to get the exact info right now. Thanks. Please advise if you need more exact info. Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215300
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    - Spool 32 after booting up i get a message that says "Spool 32 has caused an error in Spool 32 exe Spool 32 will now close" this does not happen all the time, about 40% of the time Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215298
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    - KERNEL.32.DLL In the past few weeks I started getting error messages saying "....has caused an error in KERNEL.32.DLL". It has happened while in AOL, it happened yesterday when I was running defrag and scandisk, and others. The first part of the message usually refers to the program I am currently using or just exited. The only change I have made to the system recently was to add more memory. It seems to have worked fine. Any suggestions? Thanks! Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215295
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    - Problems after reboot (pictures) Hi, i have recently rebooted my computer. Have loaded on all the old software. I used to be able to save pics from the internet to my PC and then be able to open them in 'my pics'. My computer will now only open a few select pics. It wont and never would open ART. pics. But it now won't open some bitmaps or gifs. They wont open in the preview mode and when i try and open them with a different format i get an error message saying: *********************************************************** C:\MyDocuments\MyPictures\(filename) (Program Name)Can not read this file. This is not a valid bitmap file, or its format is not currently supported. (OK BUTTON) *********************************************************** anyone have any ideas on how i can get thi sorted? thanks - Graham Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215288
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    - recovery disk I recently use my recovery disk to use the user recovery procedure. It put its files on windows temp folders, system is working now ,can I now delete those temp files.The disk clean up utility I used to clean disk stated that these files were marked as non delete .They are now sitting in my delete bin ,can I delete them without hurting system or are they used still please respond Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215286
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    - auto protect error I can not run auto protect(norton antivirus),it reads- error.Also, I get a pop that reads "unable to initialize the virus scanning enging database files". Can some one give me advice. Thank You Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215282
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    - Always booting to safe mode My sister was given a computer athlon(?) with 96mb ram 6G hd, soundblaster etc. It came with windows98 loaded and WindowsME cd. The computer continued to boot to "safe mode"so I reformatted HD and loaded the ME CD. The problem still persists. I have taken the back off to make sure nothing has come loose and everything seems ok. I can get it to boot normaly if i F8 and load step by step. Can anybody suggest anything extra I can do or suggest what is wrong. Thanks Peter Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215281
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    - windows Me restart every time if i hit start shut down and choose restart or if after laoding or uninstalling programs. every time I restart it closes the desktop but just hangs without restarting,somtimes there`s a blinking cursur in the top left corner.whats up with that Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215280
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    - cannot access my second hard drive ATTN: Long Message :-) I was trying to be as detailed as possible. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hello: A few days ago my desktop was running Windows ME. I started having trouble with the OS and felt it was time to upgrade to XP (my laptop has had XP for about a year and I have grown to like it more than ME). I have a 80GIG Hard Drive on my desktop along with a 20GIG Hard Drive which I use to back up files. Before installing XP (Full Home version, not an upgrade) I moved all of the files I wanted to back up to the second 20 GIG Drive. The install went smooth, and before I knew it XP was up and running. After setting up a few basic settings I went to My Computer to bring some of the files over from the second drive, but to my suprise the second drive was not being listed at all. After looking around for a few minutes I found that the drive is listed under the device manager and Disk Management, but not listed in My computer, so I had no way of accessing it. Under the disk management I noticed that there was no letter assigned to the drive and I was not able to assign one either. By right-clicking on the drive the only option I had was to delete the partition. It listed the drive as Healthy and Active, but would not let me assign a letter to it. I did a rescan and a refresh but nothing came of it. I even went as far as uninstalling xp, formatting again, and re-installing ME to see if that would show it...and nothing was there. When in DOS I would try every possible drive letter and nothing showed up. What was odd though was in both XP and ME, the drive was listed under the device manager. Also, when I used FDISK, it listed the drive with all of the info. I then formatted again, put in the WIN XP CD, and click "R" for repair. To my shock (and happiness) I noticed that the drive was listed under F: (though there was no sign of that in DOS or when in the OS, I had tried F: a few times). It also listed all of my files, but gave me no way of accessing them. So I re-installed XP thinking that maybe now the files would be listed under F: But no such luck. Once again though it is listed under disk management. So where do I go from here???? I APOLOGIZE FOR SUCH A LONG MESSAGE, BUT WANTED TO BE AS DETAILED AS POSSIBLE. I had seen this question asked many times during my never ending Google search to find an answer, but did not see any answers....hopefully someone out there has had this problem and can let me (and others) no how to fix it. It is very important that I get these files on my drive. Thanks Adam adamh05@yahoo.com Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215277
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    - system restore is missing Somehow the system restore is gone. I went to Start, Programs, Accessories, then System Tools and after that the System Restore is not there. Any ideas how to get it back on the system? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215275
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    - Removing Programs When I open the Install/Uninstall window in control panel, the installed program list is blank. There are some apps that I need to remove but can't. Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215272
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    - Windows ME restarting Why on every reboot, do I have to hit the del key to resume the boot process? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215262
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    - %1 %2 I get message Windows could not upgrade the file %1 from % 2 %1:%2, I get to the Windows ME screen and thats it Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215260
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    - upgrade to xp do i need to uninstall windows me to upgrade to mindows xp professional. i tried and it tells me to choose a different partition. thanks Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215256
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    - product key number for WMe the product key number sticker on my HP computer case is different than the product key number in the registry, wonder why ? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215255
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    - windows will not start normal or safe mode error loading explorer.exe must reinstall windows used startup disk tried system restore, scanreg, edit system.ini extracting explorer from cab files nothing works also virus scan and scandisk i still receive error when attemting to start windows Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215251
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    - help me find something please i have aol 9.0 ,windows me, and on startup a message comes up and says iphlpapi.dll cannot load, i have went to a lot of aol chats and they are having the same problem, i went to my system cabinet and the file is listed there, but how can i get it to work? it came with my windows disk but i do not have enough room to reinstall ,i have to much other stuff it would mess up and i would have to go in and type evrything my computer does not reconize, and my color will mess up and its to much of a hassel, is there a site i can go to besides microsoft, that i can download this one file? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215247
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    - Need Help!! Kernel32.dll I use windown ME, and Yahoo Internet Expl. Everytime I am in Yahoo Expl. I get the Explorer has caused and error in Kernel32.dll. Try restarting the computer. - I have read the troubleshooting tips on how to extract file and have had no luck. I am really confused on how to go about fixing this error. I understand I need to extract the old file and replace it but exactly "how to" Any help is appreciated. I've been troubleshooting all day!! Jenn Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215246
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    - ME Problems In the last week, I have been experiencing multiple problems with my Me machine. I keep getting frozen screens, and usually can't even use CONT_ALT_DEL to bring up task manager--all I get is an infamous BLUE SCREEN error! I'll reboot, and still get errors, once or twice before I can use the thing for 10 minutes till the next thing I do pisses it off for another blue screen. I was starting to think that it was related to a new memory chip I added last week, but a co-worker called me to tell me he has been experiencing the same symptoms, especially since installing the most recent security Update! Anyone else notice a sudden increase in crashes with the last 1 or 2 Updates? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215242
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    - pictures Hi, i have recently rebooted my computer. Have loaded on all the old software. I used to be able to save pics from the internet to my PC and then be able to open them in my pics. My computer will now only open a few select pics. It wont and never would open ART. pics. But it now won't open some bitmaps or gifs. anyone have any ideas on how i can get thi sorted? thanks - Graham Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215239
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    - WINDOWS/SYSTEM/AdCache Today (18 OCT 2003) I discovered unwanted advertisements located in my Winodws Millenium directory: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\AdCache - a directory I do not recall seeing before. When I attempt to delete the files in this directory, they reappear a few moments later, even though they are also dumped into the Recycle Basket. In other words I seem to be unable to remove these unwanted promotional files. Can anyone suggest a method of removing these files? Peter Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215237
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    - State Manager problem My laptop hard disk was running constantly, even when no application was in use (system monitor showed thousands of files/sec being read and written). Unchecking statemgr in the msconfig/startup solves that problem, and operation appears normal, but I wonder if I am creating another problem down the road. What does the state manager do, can I leave it unchecked, or is there a better approach to solving my original hyperactivity problem? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215229
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    - no msconfig, no regedit Hello, I'm sending this now for the third time, as my message / request for help showed nowhere up. My friend's computer (PC) had no AV programs. After some problems he installed an AV program and it found 6 viruses (worms, BackdoorHacker, etc.) in total. Before the AV program was loaded, one could not enter the 'msconfig' utility, neither 'regedit', because the sub window containing 'msconfig' or 'regedit' respectively, remained open for 1 second only. After the removal of all (hopefully) viruses, the behaviour of the two utilities (system tools) remains the same. Any idea/suggestions? Thanks. Egon Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215222
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    - 996 MByte Non Dos Partition - Why? I was taking a look a the twitchy harddrive on my IBM machine using FDISK.EXE which revealed two partitions on C, one of which is a "996 Mbyte non dos partition". Any idea what the purpose of this is? Mike P. Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215218
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    - Codebase error I am getting an error message that reads: Error #: -200 Error #: 83805 File is not a Data file. database corruption detected c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\NCDLF.DBF Help!! What does this mean?? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215217
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    - Shutdown? Nope, reboot! Ok, now here's an interesting question for all you kind souls out there! After having all 4 versions of the Dyfica (sp?) virus get together and beat the hell out of my poor Win. ME, we needed a full reinstall of Windows to get it up and running again. System Recovery didn't want to know! Although the PC works now (or I wouldn't be typing this... :o) ) when I go to Shut Down the PC, instead of it coming up in the orange "It is now safe to turn off your computer", it reboots the PC as though you just turned the PC on! No system conflicts as I can see from the devices inside, so can anyone help me? Btw, I've also reformatted the HDD twice tonight and it's still having no effect...! Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215215
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    - Enormous Swap File Size, and slow browsing I have a Swap File of 500 megs, and it takes for ever to view the contents of a folder after I double click on it in explorer. Could th two be connected? Any suggestions? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215214
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    - Reformating C Drive I am trying to reformat the C drive on a machine that has ME on it, and it won't let me. How can I do this? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215203
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    - Lost restore points w/setting in AVG Hi all - AVG 6.0 I am having a problem with losing all restore points, and my system crashing after enabling a setting in AVG 6.0 In the E-mail section of the AVG there is a selection for OE 5 Plugin, and when I select this when Windows is loaded, I have a problem with opening the Delete Box. It just hangs, and I have to shut down using the power on/off button. Then, when I start up again, Windows will load but hangs at the desktop, and when I try to shut down with ctrl-alt-del the system goes to the blue screen and I have to shut down using the power on/off button. I started the system up in Safe Mode, and tried to do a System Restore, but, there were no restore points, not even the one I set yesterday afternoon, and even though the disable restore was not checked. I was able to open the AVG Control Center and uncheck the OE 5 Plugin and then reboot. The system came up find and all is working ok now, but, still no restore points, even though I have set a new one since the reboot, it is not there now. I would truly appreciate it if someone could provide me with a website or KB information that might address this problem so that I can perhaps have a better idea of where and how to troubleshoot this problem, or find a resolution. Best regards, Jan :) Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215202
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    - Effect of err msg During startup, I get an err msg with msnvc in the left corner. It says, (48) psapi.dll not found. I get the message twice. When I kill both (click OK) I am unaware of any problems. What software is looking for this dll? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215201
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    - Err Msg: Shell32.DLL Miscrosoft Internet Explorer seemed to not recognize an internet connection when there was one. So, I tried many things, but I finally decided to try uninstalling it and reinstalling it. Well, after I did that and tried restarting my computer again, it tells me that "a required .DLL file, C:\Windows\System\Shell32.DLL, was not found." It will not load all of the way. I have Windows ME but have found a code to try typing in in the Command Prompt Only. I had to put in my QuickRestore cd to get the Command Prompt to come up, but the code I have is for Windows 95 and my QuickRestore cd is for 98. WHAT DO I DO?!?!? I can't even get loaded enough to reinstall Windows. Plus, won't I lose all my saved info if I do that?!??!! Help please!!!! Emily Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215198
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    - <>Spyware Alert! <> *New* Spyware Hijacker [Superlogy.com] If anyone sees a post requesting help for a home page hijack or general hijack related to [ Superlogy.com ] please read on, Immediate fix until developers can devise and release a repair tool is "Hijack This", info and download: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm Please feel free to post this information elsewhere as you see fit. Regards, -- siljaline MS MVP IE/OE (Please reply to group, as reply address is invalid, so that we can all benefit) "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." - Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_ Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215197
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    - .bkf files Many K of .bkf files in Windows Update. Can these be safely deleted? Saw them after using EasyClean 1.7 registry cleaner and "useless file" delete. This is a recent thing as I never had them before. Help Please! Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215188
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    - Startup Disk Is there anywhere I can download the files necessary to create a FAT32ebd startup disk for ME? Had a power failure while running setup and now I can't use the Win 98 startup disk to start again - message says invalid startup disk. Thanks. Vee Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215187
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    - bkf files Many K of .bkf files in Windows Update. Can these be safely deleted? Saw them after using EasyClean 1.7 registry cleaner and "useless file" deleter. This is a recent thing as I never had them before. Help Please! Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215185
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    - Replacing kernel32.dll file Running ME (upgrade) I have a fresh copy of above file on floppy. How do I replace existing file which is protected. Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215181
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    - Swap File - Again Hello: After moving the contents of my documents folder from drive C to drive E, my swap file really filled up and made things worse. What can I do to remedy this situation without crashing or reducing performance of my computer? Details, please. Harry. Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215180
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    - Update ME error!! OS lost afterwards! 2 weeks ago I updated the critical updates from microsoft site (including IE updates). upon restart I got errors and the IE kept hanging, so I went to Control Panel and deleted the new application downloads including the new IE. Upon reboot this time the system said there were errors and was going to reconfigure or something to a previous good configuration. Now when I start my computer, the Windows ME screen comes on and looks like everything loads properly, but I get to the windows interface and the blue background comes up on the screen but nothing else is shown. When I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL only one program is listed (unlike before when I remember lots listed). I can't do anything else, just a blue background on the screen and nothing else, and the only function available is the keyboard shortcut for CTRL+ALT+DEL. How can I recover from this disaster? Help please!! I also thought I could just upgrade to XP professional, but when I put the CD into the CD drive and turned on my computer it does the same thing and goes to the blue screen. Is it possible to do something during start-up and just have it boot from CD and upgrad to XP so I don't lose any of my data that's already in my computer? Any suggestions on how to recover my data and system would help, Thanks!!!! Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215179
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    - Configuration Warning What is causing the following warning: Configuration Warning An error occurred reading the startup configuration file. Please contact your administrator. Line 67. Syntax error. Illegal Character. Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215171
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    - stalling desktop My computer 'sort of' shuts down when inactive for a while. The tower says its on, but the monitor goes into standby mode. When I try to activate it, nothing happens. It seems to 'stall'. I end up having to hold the button down until the machine finally switches off, then restart. Any ideas pls? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215170
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    - Making a rescue disk! A lot of suppliers sell their PC's without the original Windows CD. They have a rescue or backup disc. How can I make such a disk? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.525 / Virus Database: 322 - Release Date: 09/10/2003 Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215169
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    - Refresh and Slow I am running Win Me. I ahve been having a prob in IE 6. I have to keep using the refresh button for pages to open and my system is so slow (I have high speed!!)...what can cause this? Also I keep getting returned email...I did 2 virus scans but come up clean...HELP Charmaine Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215167
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    - compressing files I have created a web project in microsoft greetings. When I try to email it Nortons Antivirus comes up with a message that it recommends that I compress the file. I went into windows help to find out how to compress a file and it suggested that I go into My Computer and select the drive I want to create a compression folder in. Then it says to choose new from the file menu and then click compression folder. When I get to this menu there is no option to choose compression folder, only Folder and Shortcut. Is there some other way that I can compress a file. Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215166
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    - upgrade can i upgrade me to xp? Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215165
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    - NTFS Question Can a system running ME be converted to NTFS? (I want to get over the 2gig file size limitation, but don't want to go back to XP.) Tag: Do I need to upgrade? Tag: 215161

I am going to be purchasing FrontPage 2003. I'm currently
running Windows ME with 191 mb of RAM.

Is this enough or do I need to upgrade my OS or RAM?

Jeff

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Re: Do I need to upgrade? by Mike

Mike
Sun Oct 19 10:39:06 CDT 2003

To use any component of Office 2003 requires users to be running either
Windows 2000 SP3 or higher or XP (Home or Pro).

You might want to consider sticking with FrontPage XP/2002 that runs fine on
Win Me. The following URL compares the two products
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/frontpage/compare.asp.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com

Jeff <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I am going to be purchasing FrontPage 2003. I'm currently
> running Windows ME with 191 mb of RAM.
>
> Is this enough or do I need to upgrade my OS or RAM?

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