You may want to download Adaware or HiJackThis and see what else is going on.

If your system is limited on its resources, you won't have anything wrong and it still may act like that. (Like a...

Don't worry about the mistake, I just found Daniweb particularly humourous that day.

So the "Splash Screen" at boot (Says something like starting Windows /version/. It's the first color graphic...

You know... you may not have to get that extreme. There are linux floppy boot disks out there that will allow you to get to your boot manager and reinstall it. Then, you don't lose your data.
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Gee... go to DaniWeb and find some humorous posts... (Not just this one made me laugh. Kimberley, don't take offense...we all make humourous mistakes.)

Anyway, I have a question. Does the...

Personally, I use Mozilla. (I do so because I want the mail and news program too.) Firefox is basically Mozilla without the mail and news programs.

Some sites don't work well without IE, Yahoo!...

It could be. Often, when ink jet cartridges just sit the ink dries out. It's much easier to replace the cartridge than to try to clean it/mess with it. (Especially if you know the printer works.)...

go to housecall.trendmicro.com for a free virus scan.

Unfortunately, it found one last night. Fortunately, it does work. (It only found it because I was bragging about my safe searching habits. ...

If you installed Windows on top of Windows, guess what... You need to install Windows again. It sometimes badly screws up DUN. (Dial Up Networking.)

Can you do it on paper? If not, you probably cannot do it on computer. I know someone that draws her image in pencil, goes over it in ink, then scans and colors it. She does an excellent job.
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Try pressing and releasing alt, ctrl, and shift. Sometimes, a key gets stuck or toggled on, and doing this releases it.

Describe the process in more detail. What are you doing? (Are you trying to copy files to the CD-RW without like you'd copy files drive-to-drive?)

If you have computer above a 286, don't worry about MFM and RLL drives. They've been replaced by IDE for almost 10 years or better.

When you put the new drive in the computer, watch the start up...

Only 56MB of RAM? If that's right, then you need more RAM.

If you want to be sure everything's gone, learn how to use FDISK and delete the partitions and recreate them. That will leave the drive about as clean as you would ever need to get it.

Unplug...

Why do you want to do that?

Sure, use one you already own. /unhelpful suggestion

Move the card to another computer and see if the problems move with it.

From the boot-up menu (press F8 when Windows begins to load...Same way to get in to safe mode.) select "Command Prompt Only" probably option 6.

From there:
--Put a disk in the drive
--type "A:"...

I wonder if that's the monitor's way of protecting it from bad resolutions. If you try to run a monitor at a resolution it doesn't support, you can damage it.

Can you get in to safe mode ok?

or a different monitor if you have one.

Sounds like it could be a resource conflict, so at the very least try moving the graphics card to another slot.

It is, but you need a special program to do so. You can try looking for it on google.

I found one a long time ago, but it does nothing more than show the files that were deleted.

If you delete...

Look under the "General" tab and see if "Read-only" is enabled. If you have show hidden files set to on, check for that too.

Before you start, export your registry to a file. I like using the current date as the file name when doing so. (How many "good.reg, good1.reg" files are useful? 082003.reg is August 20th, 2003......

Maybe... Maybe not. You're better off checking heat by putting your hand in the air current behind the power supply.

I'm not sure it's overheating, but if you only have a processor fan and power...

Have you tried turning the monitor off and back on? We've got a TV (same design idea) that loses all its color at random times, and I turn it off and back on and it fixes it.

Well, fastest... Sometimes you can't open the case, or you don't want to risk potentially messing it up. I remember how nervous I was opening the cases of my computer the first time. (Now, I don't...

There's many ways you can transfer data. The easiest (and maybe the cheapest) is to use a network card. You simply connect a cross-over cable between two network cards, and you've got a simple...

You probably should try uninstalling and reinstalling. It doesn't appear that your program is completely there.

Maybe... You'll need to know keyboard short cuts to get windows to shut back down properly, so it doesn't have a hypochondriac reaction...

Sometimes your BIOS allows booting without a video card,...

Sometimes you have to safely take it out, let the computer boot in to Windows once, then put it back in. (Do shut off power when taking it out/putting it in.)

Windows likes to be the "hero."

I've used (with good success) the google technique. Drop the name of the program in google, and look for a sight that tells what it does. You may come across a few sites built for that.

What monitor is installed? You may have to change that. (Windows keeps "profiles" for monitor types, running at incorrect resolutions is bad for them.)

Whoa, caperjack... Just a second there... He's running ME, not 98. There'll undoubtedly be problems from that.

Try letting it boot to the "blinking underscore" and type "win" (without the quotes.)

Don't get discouraged yet Vasago. Pay attention to what we say, and read everything about computers you can get your hands on. If you take the time to remember the information you read, you will...

You mean you had the monitor on, just showing a screen saver the whole time?

Make sure you shut the monitor off manually if you're usinhg the "Always on" or "Never turn off" setting. If you don't, you will eventually kill it. (Trust me, I left my IBM 5151 on all the time and...

Go to display properties, Under the "Screen Saver" tab, you'll see "Energy saving features of monitor." Click on "Settings" and make the adjustments there... (You may have to adjust the "Turn off...

Btw, APM means "Advanced Power Management."

Check your APM settings. There will be controls in most modern BIOSes for them.

If you're formatting, you obviously plan on reinstalling the operating system. If your computer boots off CD-ROM, then all you have to do is issue the format command. If not, you'll need to make a...