As always, many thanks to Charles for his assistance and solid advice. Now -would nwterry please list those four patches by number from Microsoft...
All Seems Well Hi Charles, Sorry I've been unable to post back until now, but I think I've finally got this thing running right with your...
Hi Charles, I just now got through running that installer cleanup utility. It appears to have done the trick, and you don't know how much I...
Thanks, Charles. I'll try that this afternoon and will post back soon. I have to go out of town for Easter and will be back Monday afternoon,...
New Problems have appeared! I tinkered around a bit more and managed to get the Microsoft autoplay repair tool to finally work. The drives seem...
You and me both. I'm pooped. Thanks for all the help and patience. ....Pam
I followed your instructions, and it simply won't put the box up to prompt me after the disc spins up. Every time, no matter what kind of disc I...
I think we might be getting somewhere. The Realtek sound reinstall didn't work. It still shows no device, but the CD and DVD drives are...
I'll give that a try, but I keep getting a message telling me that I must restart the computer for the configuration changes to take place. I've...
Right! I meant uninstall. After I clicked "normal" on the system config. utility, and rebooted. Apparently I needed to click "selective ",...
Hi Charles, I uninstalled every program that had anything to do with CD/DVD. I also did the msconfig thing. Now when I reboot, it's putting up...
OK, before I start uninstalling - here is the list of things shown in the device manager under "sound, video, and game controllers ": Audio...
Please send instructions Hi Charles, Thanks a million for sending the additional suggestions. I've got a problem with one of my CD burning...
Well, I'm about ready to take a baseball bat to this thing. I've done all the troubleshooting, uninstalled and reinstalled, and then it still...
Hi - I've now spent about 8 hours playing around with System Restore to try to find a point at which my computer will behave normally. I went...
Thanks again. I'll do the system restore tomorrow morning when hopefully I'm not so tired and frustrated. I've already reset the automatic...
Hi Charles, Thanks so very much for the valuable information as well as your prompt reply to my dilemma. I'm going to try the system restore for...
Hi - I'm having terrible problems that I feel sure are caused by the Windows Automatic Update and the Software Distribution 2.0 program that...
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