Recent content by jerrysc1

Recently my system has started restarting when I am trying to shutdown. Also pressing the power button causes an immediate power down - I used to have to hold it in for 15 seconds before that would happen.

This is real simple - find someone that has a cd burner and have them make you a bootable image of the floppy windows startup disk - this works great and is much faster than the floppy. When you use this it is a little confusing because even though it is in your cd drive you will access it...

when I eject the CDRW it is closing the cd session so that when you put it back in it is read only and full - in order to use it again it has to be reformated. Nero 5.5 - I can not find any settings to control this - everyone tells me that this is better than Adaptec but their directCD beats...

Thank you all, replaced the hardware.

I am running ME - any disk - software install - you name it- whether there is a music file or not causes the windows media player to start and it tries to play the one file that it thinks is on the disk - opening the windows explorer also shows 1 music file on the CD - again it doesn't matter...

I am working on an old Pentium II system that the CD RW drive has just started showing the same contents no matter what CD is inserted. It always starts the Windows media player and tries to play an audio file - the window explorer says that it is an audio CD with 1 or 2 audio files that are...

that's not it I have all right to these files

I cannot start the windows installer service (yes I am the administrator). Every time I right click on a file the windows installer tries to run (it does this twice). I get an error 5 access denied when I try and start the service. The Microsoft web site has a program to clean up the windows...

I would check the settings in the internet explorer - go to tools > internet options > general > temporary internet files > settings - check what is checked for newer versions of stored pages

did that - still no luck

I can not get Roxio's version 5 to run on Win2K - I have done the registry hack so the patch would load but still no dice - has anyone had this problem and been able to get past it?