Mike - Thank you for the quick response. I downloaded ADware and it found over 1,300 items. Then I downloaded the CWshredder and it said a ton of items which were infected. I ran it and it said...

Are you sure that you don't have a French keyboard layout selected? Control Panel | Keyboard | Language? In Win Me this is distinct from your regional settings unlike say XP where this setting is...

Thanks for the info. I ran the scan but could never find how to delete anything it found. I'll keep trying

Kath, The Deleted Items folder, or rather Deleted Items.dbx has little to do with the problem. As you know deleted folders and their contents don't get moved to Deleted Items.dbx, instead...

I had a problem with getting updates also (not exactly like yours) but what I had to do with Internet Explorer was Tools/Internet Options on the General tab click on Languages button and insure a...

Had the same problem. Alt-Ctl-Del and bring up the task dialog box End every task except Explorer and System tray do your scandisk and defrag then restart. or get to safe mode. (tap on F8 or I...

use system restore to a time when it worked..the restore point will have the registry in it's memory start/programmes/accessories/system tools/system restore...pick a restore point to before you had...

my dvd drive crashes now every time i use it to copy dvd's....used to be fine..any ideas?..thx

You need to uninstall (or at least switch off) GoBack - it's not strictly compatible with ME Look here for...

Have you been running with the Quack? Are you running Norton System Quack - - errr - Doctor? If so, then read on...... You may have up to 32,000 empty OEM*.INF files sitting in your c:\Windows\INF...

Julie BEck wrote: http://www.oehelp.com/oelnk.aspx -- Kath Adams MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)

One post is sufficient, you don't need to keep posting the same problem again and again. Instead check for any replies to your original post. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP mcmaltby@hotmail.com lici.d...

Thanks very much - that did the trick !!

It appears that you may have picked up a variation of the odious CoolWebSearch hijacker. See Variant 24. CWS.Control at http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html. Download and use CWShredder, the...

Unable to change settings in control panel. Receiving messages such as «Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permission to access the item....

Every time I try to "Copy To CD", I get a message box isntructing me to close all programs (none but WMP are open) and restart my computer". Any help on this will be greatly appreciated

Please in full the two error messages you are seeing. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP mcmaltby@hotmail.com joel47@excite.com <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Computer displays 2 error messages upon startup error-spool32 msvcrt40.dll error-stmgr msvcrt.dll Computer goes straight into disk defrag but then shuts down.

Try a new keyboard first. -- Richard G. Harper rgharper@email.com * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP...

How do I stop Windows Me from continuing when it boots to my desktop. In other words, I have all my icons up and the system should stop there, however, it continues booting into My Documents. I don't...