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Sat down today and booted my Windows ME machine as always, except that it came up with an error message (no, I didn't write down what it was) and wouldn't boot. Rebooted into Safe Mode and everything seemed fine--except that the "Shut Down" item was missing from the Start Menu and when I...

I've been using the Power Management settings in my Micron Win 98 SE machine for many years with no problem, but last week they decided not to work. To be precise, I've always had the system set up to turn off the monitor after 45 minutes of inactivity and it's always done that--till now. Now...

Hohum, another day, another Win 98 SE problem. You'd think I'd be used to it by now. After years of faithful service, my system is now giving me grief when I try to shut down or restart. It goes to the "windows is shutting down" window and there it stays until I power down and then...

AOL drives me crazy, even though I don't use it. I do use the stand-alone version of Instant Messenger to talk to my kids who are scattered all over the globe though. In spite of having been burned by AOL in various ways for years I keep thinking "maybe this time I can upgrade and things...

Hi all. After a bout of hard drive deletions and uninstalls I find that I've gone too far. Whenever I go to certain sites I get the message that I can't see the page unless I download Microsoft Java Virtual Machine. I'm then asked to click on a page that will install said missing Java Virtual...

For no reason that I can think of IE 6 has been "compromised" so that no matter what Start Page I set, as soon as I reboot the Start Page becomes www.luckysearch.net, a site I've never knowingly been to. It seems to be connected somehow to the "about:blank" option. That is...

I'm running Windows 98 SE and have two copies of Eudora 6.0. All I want to do is uninstall one of them because it's no longer necessary. The problem, though, is that when I go to add/remove programs in Windows 98 Control Panel I see two Eurdoras ("Eudora" and "Eudora...

I'm running two copies of Eudora 6.0 and want to uninstall one of them because it's no longer necessary. The problem is that when I go to add/remove programs in Windows 98 Control Panel I see two Eurdoras ("Eudora" and "Eudora E-Mail") but have no way of knowing which...

I'm running a four year old Micron that has always performed perfectly. It's a machine that is almost always on. Last night I was away from the computer for about an hour, and when I returned the image on the screen was strangely muddy and streaky. Blacks had become grayed out. It looked...

I'm running a four year old Micron that has always performed perfectly. It's a machine that is almost always on. Last night I was away from the computer for about an hour, and when I returned the image on the screen was strangely muddy and streaky. Blacks had become grayed out. It looked...

My aging Windows 98 SE box is giving me fits. After years of service it stopped shutting down--always reboots. I've posted that as a query and am working on the fix. Now a new "surprise." Suddenly, whenever Scandisk runs, either through Task Scheduler or by hand, it hangs my whole...

Actually, this is a QuickTime install complaint and an uninstall problem. I let the newest version of QuickTime install itself while visiting a site and found afterward that it had become esconced on my taskbar along with too many other apps. I opened the program and went to the...

I just upgraded from the free ZoneAlarm to ZoneAlarm Pro and have encountered a new problem. Certain websites that I used to be able to access without a problem now won't load. I'm on a DSL connection, but these sites--both of them news sites--just hang. If I wait long enough--fifteen minutes...

I just connected three home computers with a Linksys Router. Two of the boxes are running Windows ME. One of those is a laptop with a wireless connection. Both of these boxes communicate perfectly, sharing the DSL connection, the printer, and various files. These two machines not only see...