My mouse (logitech optical mouse) and keyboard randomly freeze. I check the
device manager and the mouse has disappeared from the hardware list. Next to
usb human interface in the list there is a red x, usually it has a green
question mark.

when i right click on my desktop all my icons dissapear for a second but no
drop menue also if i click on file in my documents everything dissapears then
it closes and my desktop re-appears system goes blank for a second
any ideals ?

What does "double layer" DVD RW mean? I have recently seen the words "double
layer" (or dual layer) referring to DVD read write capabilities.
Marilyn

When I insert USB device or pcmcia device, the system detects the hardware
and installs relevant drivers.  However, it always prompts to me for the
location of driver. In fact, the driver is located in
c:\windows\systems32\drivers or c:\windows\system.  Everytime, I need to

I used, for four years, the Linksys (vers.1.42.00) and as
a Firewall only in tandem with a rented Terayon Modem with
no problem whatsoever. I upgraded the router firmware in
Jan'04 to 1.46.00 - no problem.

If I select shutdown | reboot, ME shuts down and comes back to a black
screen with the cursor blinking in the upper left corner.
If I shut down fully and then restart, it starts up Ok.
Any ideas?

I am trying to squeeze the last megahertz out of my old, slow Compaq
Presario 5000. It is running a 750 MHz AMD Duron chip under Windows
ME.
I would like to add a DVD drive to burn a DVD of the production my son

When a cd is inserted an exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C004C685 in VxD
VFat (01)+ 0000CC25.  This was called from 0028:C1828A10 in VXD voltrack
(04)+ 00000430 message comes up.

My mouse and keyboard randomly freeze. I do ctrl-alt-delete and the task list
shows msgsrv32 not responding. I check the device manager and the mouse has
disappeared on the hardware list. Next to usb human interface in the list
there is a red x, usually it has a green question ...

I recently purchased a new hard drive, 250GB. I already have a 30GB
installed which is formatted with Fat32, when installing the new drive
I was wondering if I should format this with NTFS or Fat32, or even
convert both to NTFS if its better.

Hi all, I see that installing a hard drive with ME can
case a ton of problems, but I'm trying to do just that.
I tried to install the hard drive (160GB) and it told me
that no driver could be found.  The manufacturer did not

I'm trying to install a new Simpletech 160GB external hard
drive.  Simpletech says that the driver should be in ME,
but ME can't find the driver.  Where should I look for the
driver--would it be on the ME CD?  Thanks in advance!  I'm

Okay here we go again!
Mike I hope you're out there.
Thanks for all your help you don't know how much I
appreciate it!

Okay I just installed an 80GB Hard drive (Maxtor) Loaded
ME and everything seems to be working great. However, when
I click on my C drive it says that it only has a 1.99 GB
capacity. What's up with that? How do I get it to

Hi Noel... :-)
As you know, I'm trying to do a dual boot setup on my machine with W2K and
ME.  I installed a new hard drive, which I set up as the new C:\ drive with
Win 2K, and the old hard drive with Win ME is not the F:\ drive.  For some