Every so often the following message appears on the screen ‘Windows - There are no spare stack pages. It may be necessary to increase the settings of MinSPs in SYSTEM.INI to prevent possible stack faults. There are currently 4 SPs allocated. Press any key to continue…’. I am using Windows 98 with the Office 2000 suite. I have always been able to continue the log on process after ‘pressing any key’. Can you tell me what this means and what I should do? (more…)

I wonder if you can help me rather urgently. A (questionable) website seems to have hijacked my internet explorer home page. The unwanted site was set as my homepage when I visited an internet site even though I did not accept any offer to have this as my default homepage. I run the latest version of Internet Explorer on a Pentium 933 with 128MB RAM and a 30GB hard drive. Previously I had Hotmail set as the IE homepage. I have tried a couple of things. Firstly, I went to ‘Tools’ > ‘Internet Options’ > and set the homepage as www.hotmail.com. Secondly, I clicked ‘Reset Web Settings’ in the ‘Programs’ tab in the Internet Options. If I stay in the same session, this fixes the problem but as soon as I log off then log on again, the questionable site appears again as the default homepage. There was no improvement when I tried deleting all the temporary internet files, then doing the two above procedures again before logging off. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. (more…)

I am considering upgrading from WindowsME to WindowsXP but the salesman who sold me my notebook said I am wasting my time and money as my current WindowsME drivers would not work on XP. My machine is a Satellite 2800, 700MHz, 128 MB RAM. Can you comment? (more…)

Recently, an error message appears every time I start up the computer. The message is that ‘Word Art may only be used to embed objects. It must be started from within another program’. I never use WordArt so far as I know. How can I get rid of the error message? I use Windows 95, Word, and Works (more…)

Every time I try to run games my video card locks up. At first I thought this might have been an IRQ conflict with the sound card because my sound card being a3d takes up 3 IRQ slots. I tried first disabling my sound card then uninstalling it altogether but my video card still locked up. I have also downloaded the latest a3d and nVidia drivers without any luck. I am running a Pentium II 350mhz with Windows ME 64mb of ram, an nVidia TNT2 M64 video card, a Xitel Storm VX sound card, and a Abit BH6 motherboard. (more…)