I am hoping Noel Paton, Koldbear or someone much more savvy that me can
provide some common sense and tech advice to prevant me from melting
down my old Compaq Presario 5000 desktop.
Backstory:  My WinME operating system, as currently configured, is

FWIW:
Would like to share this with the NG, despite the risk of exposing myself to
some *flak*:
Knowing from experience, it to be safe, I have been using an old "Norton

Hi Experts, hope you can help. I run Me with 512MB Ram Mcafee Virus and
Firewall. I also regularly run ad-aware, spybot and registry mechanic on
demand to try and keep my system in order.
However, I Keep getting blue screen memory (?) errors such as: Error: 0E:

I have win98SE (I know this is not the right group but I think somebody
can help me) and the CPU usage is always 100%. I see this with system
monitor and with Process Explorer. The process that use most CPU is the
System Idle Process (85 / 90%). What is this System Idle Process? Is

Im trying to connect my psp to my pc  when it searches for the driver it can
not find usbntmap.sys.  i have an hp  and  I have the hp recovery program
will that work??

I recently added an 80 Gb hard disk (Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM) as a slave to my
'C' drive. The entire disk is partitioned as a 'D' drive. My system will no
longer sucessfully go into 'Hibernate' mode, as it did before adding the
disk. After displaying the 'Preparing to go into ...

msimn has caused an error in comctl32.dll.
What do I do about this? Thanks.

      In the morning when the power is turned on the system, both power
lights on the monitor and tower come on.  Then when the tower is switched on,
the "activity" (or whateveritscalled") light doesnt come on, and  no cusor on
the monitor black screen.  After several minutes ...

First off my battery is fine. After installing some software, my clock/time
went into over drive, but win me will not let me change it-help

I notice that Microsoft offer a free upgrade from Me to XP.
I am in the UK, how do i get hold of this free upgrade?
Although i appear to be entitled to it, the website just sends me round in
circles!

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Regards,
Silj

I get a blue screen error on startup. I can only do a safe mode start.
File Name:IOS(05)+00001ED1 ERROR:OE:0028:CO02C29AD
I did a scanreg/restore with no luck.
I did a search on microsoft but did not find any information on

i'm trying to install etrust internet security suite's antispyware program.
i get a W9027 error when i run this in normal mode. in safe mode i get the
following blue screen:
VxD dyanmic link call: C18AD0CC to "0028", serive 800A.

How do I correct an error with XML using XSL style sheet?
Apparently XSL is being used by my system.
I am supposed to correct the error and then click on the "Refresh" button in
order to view the attachment.

Under Internet Explorer>Tools>Internet Options>Advanced Tab
Should the following items be checked or unchecked?
Automatically check for Internet Explorer updates.
Enable Install On Demand (Internet Explorer)