Whenever I load Windows Media Player (WMP), my desktop shows these VERTICAL
green LINES across the top of my screen.
Its quite annoying, initially, but will disappear if I rotate the Task Bar
back and forth 90 degrees.  Unfortunately, whenever these lines appear, the

In my Win98se, when I on the pc, I always get this message 'Window protection
error' in which I will have to press 'alt/ctl/del' to restart the pc. It will
then go to desktop. What can I do to get rid of this message, thanks

Microsoft has finished testing the newsgroups and says there is no
longer any problem with the Microsoft newsgroups.  I just wanted to pass
on the good news on this to everyone.

My win98se will be the remote pc (wireless) and I wish I to print from a
printer that is connected to another pc (xp home, workgroup name "abc").
Where can I set the workgroup to 'abc' in win98se pc? Thanks for your help

I use and like 98SE and was wondering what Windows ME gives a user that
98SE does not have.  The system restore feature in ME is nice but can be
overcome through a third party solution like GoBack.  Windows 98(SE) has
its own resource kit and I think that Windows ME does not have ...

See http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=595539 
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Microsoft's PR agency is criticizing third-party entities for making patches for
Windows 98:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/008147.html
Not that I am planning to install the third party fix, or install any VLM fix

I'd like to set the properties of certain programs (such as MS Word) to
always open in a maximized Windows. I believe I'm supposed to right-click on
the desktop shortcut icon, select properties, and then select "Maximized" in
the Run window. But this window is grayed out (as are all ...

I tried to print from internet and email and receive these messages:
MSIMN caused error in MMSYSTEM.DLL   and
MSIMN caused error in COMDLG32.DLL
Any ideals for fixing this?  I'm thinking up upgrading from ME to XP from

Hi, I`ve just noticed this new entry in msconfig startup tab "New value #1"
which was checked, I`ve unchecked it and it appears to make no difference to
the running of the machine. Just wondering where it came from and what it
is, i`ve not installed anything new that i`m aware of. ...

The mouse pointer stops responding for about 30 seconds whenever a
dialog box pops up on the Desktop. After the 30-seconds pause it
continues working normally.
An example of this problem follows.

Hi Gary,
      After clean boot and installing the stuff to take the place of
McAfee, I cannot even get into my PeoplePC mail box. Alsowhen I get off
line, I get the message that I am perfprming an illegal Operation. This is

At our school we had a real control freak -- 2 years ago according to
the computer lady that has been there for a while.  She made the XP
Professional computers extremely hard to work on.  The issue is this:
Even in Administration mode --- we cannot add new accounts for the

When I turn the mouse wheel, the response is erratic. Help!

Where is the mouse driver installation application located? Is there a copy
on the hard drive?