Recent content by scissorman

Thanks very much - help greatly appreciated.

Thanks - as I don't run XP, and my brothers machine is 40 miles away, I take it I can 'unselect' "Hide Protected System Files" in the same way, and from the same place as smah mentioned?

Just one thing - with XP - how do I ensure that 'all system files and hidden files' are displayed in Windows Explorer? I take it there is an option I can select? I found there was an option in the 'search' file but I have to say I don't like the XP desktop display. I was never sure if it was...

Great - thanks! I'll give this a try today. I'm a bit worried about losing programs installed under the old profile - does this mean all of them, or just stuff like outlook express and email/ISP settings? Surely Word and games won't be removed?! I'll try the SP1 first though, if it lets me...

We tried that - unfortunately, he had no restore points - his machine had been messed up with a load of spyware/scumware, you name it, which we have cleared out over the past week. Now we are at this stage, so close! If he uses word and saves it to the 'my documents' foldr, on reboot it is...

I am trying to sort out my brothers PC which runs XP. I started sfc and was prompted to insert the winXP disc. The only disc supplied with his machine is a 'Medion Product recovery CD-ROM' , which I inserted. Unfortunately, the files that are needed to replace his damaged and corrupted files...

See what you mean...all of them work except...mmsys.cpl. I have another entry in my msbackup folder but that doesn't work either. So somewhere there must be major corruption faults or a conflict? SiSoft Sandra see's everything working fine. I don't know what the .cpl file should be for the...

I think this is going to have to be the solution, I'm just a bit worried, that last time I reinstalled WinME (OEM version) I lost all my drivers and settings, and it took 5 days to put right, whereas when i used to have win95 it seemed to just update the parts of the installatio that had become...

Quite right - no SFC on my WinME - just tried the control.ini delete but no difference - it's back exactly the same as before. I am now going bald with anguish! If the problem is registry bound I'm going to have to start hunting down some pretty mean streets to find where the control panel...

Thanks - sorry for being thick but what is SFC? I've searched and found a sfc.dll file but I cannot open it. I see it may be attached to PC Health, but I don't seem to have an .exe file to open/launch PC health - am I missing something very obvious here (probably!) I found mmsys.cpl in my...

I've had similar problems in the past week, cdrw stopped being identified, then was detected bu I couldn't use burning software as it told me no device was connected. The strange thing is that it lets me use DirectCD for files still. Like yours, mine was already installed and working and then...

My installation of WinME seems to have lost 2 options in the control panel - 'sounds' and 'multimedia'. Last seen about a week ago, now missing! I wanted to adjust the sound hardware acceleration due to problems in a game and they are nowhere to be found.All that I have is 'Audio Control'...

Having problems with an LG CDRW GCE 8160B writer, Took it out to try on a friends machine and all fine. When i go to install back in my machine it is shown as 'other device'. It plays discs fine, but is not recognised as a writing device. It has worked for 12 months and installed easily before...

Tried it - no luck. The device now shows up under 'other device', recognised as the make and model, playing discs, but not writing cd's. Tried it on a friends system and it works. Has to be some software screwed up?

Running WinME with DirectX 8.1. I have a LGE CD RW GCE8160B cd writer and have been using Roxio ECDC 5.1 with great success for over a year now. I went to use the writer today and got the message "Creator API" 'Easy CD creation engine initialization has failed: (could not initialise...