System restore is bugged and will not restore to any point vreated after Sept 8, 2001. Microsoft has supposedly released a patch to correct the issue but I have heard mixed results about it. You can type scanreg /restore in the run box and restore the registry back about 5 days. Other than that...
Had a customer call me and want to know why there Spider Solitaire game that is native to WinME runs very slowly. Did a little research on the net and found an issue where this game would run like molasses unless Outlook Express was running in the background? Tried this out and to my amazement...
I used to do this to people all the time as a prank. I believe you said the name of the folder contained an underscore? If you create a folder in dos and use an ascii character instead of a space windows will see the folder but will be unable to do anything with it. You cannot delete it unless...
Well I know for a fact the system restore will not restore to any point created after Sept 8, 2001. The algorithm that Microsoft used to create restore points is faulty. The patch they released "should" correct the issue. The file name is 290700usam.exe
Unless you are using Win95 osr2 or higher you cannot have a partition over 2gb. Whenever this system was initially setup the drive was probably fdisked incorrectly. Boot into DOS and view the partition info by using the fdisk command. I would bet that you have unpartitioned space. Let us know.
Did you used to have integrated sound? You may need to go into your BIOS and disable the onboard sound. Does it say PCI Multimedia Device or PCI Multimedia Audio Device? It makes a big difference!
Use SFC from within windows by tuping SFC in the run box. If you are using Millenium, run the msconfig utility and click the extract file button on the bottom of the window. The dos based extract command is a pain in the ........ but here are the instructions anyways :)
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You cannot downgrade ME or 98. You may try booting to DOS and typing deltree c:\windows. Then you may be able to install 98 over ME. You will not lose any data that is not in the windows directory, but some applications will probably not work. But best solution is formatting the HDD.
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