Recent content by EggiHead

A friend of mine has been sold a computer with ME pre-installed. The system date on it was wrong. When he corrected the system date it wiped out the installation. He called the guy who sold him the computer whose attitude was tough, and told him to re-install using the disk supplied. However...

What kind of file, in Word for example? Start with a right click and check properties, often if you make a file read only, you also get the option to password protect it also. In Access it's down through tools and administrator setting. You need to elaborate.

Go to the Windows site. There is a download for hanging with AOL, try this. It cured mine. Also, just windows update is a good start. Spread the word about the AOL hang, everyone is getting it.

Hanging with AOL is well documented. Go to Windows site there is a patch for this. If you can't find it come back and I'll send it to you. I have AOL too. When it hangs at other times, do control, alt, delete and shut down the non-responding program. I find ME is good at recovering. Better than...

Have you tried control panel, install new hardware wizard or even control panel, modem, and see what your modem settings if ME doesn't recognise it. Do you have the installation disk for the modem still. The ME driver aren't too compatible at the moment. I actually lost my modem totally for 36...