On a Windows Me system, My Documents has disappeared from my son's Desktop
and I have no idea how long this has been.  One "Tip" I read suggested that
it should be the 1st icon on the Desktop.
I can navigate to c:/My Documents no problem.  His files are all there.

This is a strage problem.  I've got a computer with windows ME.
Suddenly one day every icon on my desktop has a purple book with a
yellow questionmark on them. It's like a small help icon on every
icon.  It has no effect, everything workes, but I still would like to

Hello, I know this is my third post on this question, but I still can't solve
it.
Any application that I install on my pc will not show up on the Add/remove
programs list of the control panel. It is not because of the programs

If it isn't one thing it's another. I have a friend's digital camera I'm
trying to download pictures from, however, I've never done this so I'm
flying a little blind. I found a program trial version of (Photomeister) to
download the pics, well, I can't find the camera which is ...

This is causing havoc to my computer.  Can someone help me?  My anti-virus
says nothing is wrong.  I'd appreciate some  insight as to what I can do.
Thanks.

On right clicking the mouse I don't see the "New" option
and hence can't create a new folder or documents. It's a
hopeless deadlock ! Also, my existing folders are not
opening on double click. When I am right-clicking, I am

I have lots of documents on pc which used to open microsoft word . now when i
open them they open in wordpad....if i attempt to "open with" microsoft word
it works ok...if i also tick the box that says "always use this program to
open these files" it opens ok...but when i go back ...

I've had a small freeware utility from this site:
  http://www.beta10.com/oppcomme.htm
installed and in use for some time now. From the site, the following:
"Oppcom for Windows ME Gives You The Power To Remove,

Just a simple public Thank You  :-)
Dave

Hi gang - intermittent fault, disk files corrupting at intervals
apparently during read/write operations. System can be restored, but
even if hard disk reformatted and restored to as new, corruption occurs
again after a time. Laptop (Packard Bell EasyOne DC new May 2001) used

The multimedia and sounds applets are missing from control panel. I ve tried
to extract the mmsys.cpl file from cabs etc. Unfortunately I don t have an
istall disk. Where else can I find the file I need. Is there somewhere I can
download the file.

Last couple of days I've been getting "Windows protection error. You
need to restart your computer. System halted." This is usually only on
a cold boot, but occasionally on a restart. When powered off then
restarted it boots to windows fine. If "Enable startup menu" is

My Niece's hp emachine went south. She shut down as usual one evening and
the next day started it up, it began making beeping noises and the screen
went blue. Initially thinking it was the monitor, she played with that and
now it's a gray screen. I got the machine, tried rebooting ...

My computer keeps freezing and when I press Ctrl>Alt>Delete is says Monitor
(Not responding). Then I get a series of 'Blue screens' with error messages.
These blue screens will not go away so I have to press the reset button on my
PC. I am not sure what Monitor is and would be ...

I would like to update a computer running ME but not
connected to the Internet.  Does anyonw know where I can
get the updates?  Every time I try to get them from
Microsoft, it tries to automatically update the connected