how to start in Safe Mode for Windows ME and XP? [how to boot into safe mode] [laptop]

Q: How do you Win ME (and WinXP) on the menu that allows you to boot into safe mode? I just press F8 was the trick, but it does not seem to work .

Im trying to help (by phone), a friend who has WinME on her laptop. I told her to press and hold F8 during boot, but it went right into Windows. I only have WinXP on my system, and F8 do not get me the menu either, so I do not know if MS changed how to do this, or if Im wrong remember from my Win98 days.

XP Blue Screen of Death on Start-up [blue mode] [blue screen of death]

Q: 98 SE on the first partition on the HDD. Booted with XP Pro and went to install . some files are missed during NTFS install.
I selected when offered the choice during install.
Last message was . Need “Asms?
Now double boots for the 98 and XP fine. . but . Blue Screen of etc is all I see . says run “CHKDSK / F “. how?
Also says check format ends and virus stuff.
It just hangs in the blue mode.
Tried to delete the partition using fdisk “. would not let me do a th

How much RAM can handle Win ME? [microsoft knowledge base] [512 mb ram]

Q: I want a 500 MB RAM disc. I also want 500 MB or so left over for use. My machine will not boot with more than 512 MB of RAM, however. Ive already MaxFileCache = 65536. According to Microsoft Knowledge Base I would have no problem to 1GB of RAM. Has anyone successfully installed much on Win ME? If so I would like to hear from you. Thanks!

guy out.

upgrade from Win98 SE to XP . input needed [compatability test] [personal data files]

Q: going to do this today and wondering if there tips or tricks I should know.
do I need to back up my personal / data files (ie I have nothing to lose in this upgrade?)
i have already done the compatibility testing and I know I will have to download drivers for several of my devices.

just looking for a general opinion on this process.

thanks in advance for any info.

Windows Explorer crashes each time video is 'looked' [windows media player] [video file]

Q: Everytime I go to the folder where all the movies that I entered on my PC contains Windows Explorer crashes. To open the files without a crash WE to open it using Windows Media Player (file open). I know the specific files, because I managed to drag the videos to another folder (with my awesome ability to click fast) before the error appears.
Any ideas are appreciated!
natewildes

I am infected with Bill? Win 2000 SP2 will install virus . [java classes] [false alarm]

Q: I just installed win2000 SP2 (downloaded from Microsoft) and got the following warning from Norton AV (updated 7/18/01). The virus u0026quot; u0026quot, had no name – this is a false alarm?

The file
C: WINNT Java Classes xmldso.cab
was infected with virus.
The file is deleted.

MBM5 locks pc hard under load [motherboard monitor 5] [cpu z]

Q: Update: It seems that this happens when my CPU is under load. If not, it does not lock up my system. I do not get it .

So, I upgraded the motherboard monitor 5.3.7. One day I noticed it was not loading at startup, so I started it up, and hard locked my computer. Then I rebooted and tried again. Same. Then I tried CPU-Z after a restart. That worked fine, but when I closed it and ran it again, my machine still locks up.

After all this, I have a clean reinstall winxp and

Where is the network config files in linux? [network configuration files] [network config]

Q: Hey guys, where are the network configuration files (ie ip / subnet mask / default gateway, etc.) stores files in linux? In particular, the Mandrake and Debain distributions? Thank you.

A PC at work will open Word documents read-only random. [doc documents] [domain server]

Q: This PC will open. Doc documents (Word) as read-only purely arbitrary. I mean, this document will normally be opened on another PC and after closing the file on the PC, the other may or may not open as read only.

This is completely random (or so it seems). A document can be opened normally and the next is read only.
This has nothing to do with user permissions (we have a Windows 2003 domain server) .
This PC has this problem with users having this problem on other PCs ha

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