I just installed Windows ME; when I open My Documents (or
anything else) I can see the folders and files in the
window on the right, but when I click on the folders
button in the taskbar, I get a grayed window on the left

Everytime I load windows the regedit window opens. I've
checked the startup folder and it's not in there. I've
looked in the autoexec.bat file and it's not there
either. I've looked in the registry and it shows nothing

Whenever starting my computer a error message comes up
labled DW is says DW has caused an error in DW.EXE I then
press close and thats about it. I have noticed since it
started doing that I can not open the internet using the

If the Taskbar is behaving strangely, try exiting
Multimedia background task support module.
this is what dr watson says
Module Name: mmtask.tsk

The icons on my "quick launch" toolbar for MSN, YAHOO,
ROGERS websites keep changing to a "generic, light blue E"
when I restart or when I come out of 'standby'.
Can anyone tell me how to stop this from happening ?

I know that Snapshot Viewer is part of the Access/Office
Software, and available for download, but is it come
bundled as part of any Windows operating systems?.
Thanks,

fitted new modem sound has stopped working. have updated
drivers but when i reboot sound dissapears again, sound
shows no conflict sound worked ok before i put modem
inwhat can i do.

cannot open any programs on my PC. Window states security
settings do not allow activeX access.

As of about 2 months ago, my computer has had several
problems. When it goes into hibernation mode, it freezes.
Outlook Express (I have a cable modem) takes 3-5 minutes
to respond and one of my secondary accounts is

Included are newly added signatures for Aflooder, Visticom Media, "DialerCon"
Dialer, Hyena, AllHyperlinks.

I just want to know the difference between the read-only,
hidden, and archive attribute setting under properties. I
am trying to backup my files onto a CD and I don't know
which one of those to select.

A friend has a Compaq PC running Windows ME. I always warned him off using
defrag because it could leave things in a bad state during a crash and I've
never seen much improvement after using it anyway back when I did use it.
But he didn't tell his roommate about it. The guy heard ...

When checking the system summary in windows me, I noticed
that I have ~256 mb total physical memory, by only ~114 mb
available physical memory...  this is from a fresh boot
with no applications running, and seems extremely low.  

A friend has a PC with ME as the operating system and it has many
problems and has become almost  unusable. He thinks it may be caused
by a virus and wants to format drive C and reinstall the ME operating
system from the restore disk or install WIn98se - he hasn't decided.

Hi.  I got a question from an end user yesterday that I
couldn't answer by looking through the Knowledge Base or
by searching the archives of the Windows ME newsgroups.  
I would appreciate some help.