Hey Christine .... I have Windows Millenium Edition and Internet Explorer 6.0. I can't seem to find what version Outlook Express I have. If you need that you'll have to clue me in on how to find out what it is. I right clicked on the desktop Outlook Express icon and clicked properties, but it didn't give me the version. Thanks for your help Christine and Taxi. :blowkiss:
Click HELP then ABOUT to get version.
ME, you should be able to do system restore....let me explain what that is..(copy and paste really, LOL!)
How to 'undo' a big mistake in Windows
It used to be, back in that last century, that people wished for a reverse time machine. This would allow them to go back in time after they messed up their computer.
Well, Windows XP (and guess what Stan? ME too
) has that time machine. And when some awful thing gives your computer the staggers, it's easy to go back to the day before. Or the day before that. Or last week or last month.
It's an all-too-often unused feature that may save your bacon someday, called System Restore. Here are four things to know about it.
1. It allows you to go back in time.
System Restore creates points in time called "restore points" in which it takes a snapshot of Windows. It stores them on your hard drive. At any given time, you might have restore points going back a few weeks, or a few months.
System Restore also is included in Windows Me. Windows 98 has a similar, but less advanced, utility called Registry Checker. It can undo problems in the Windows Registry. More about that in a minute.
So how do you get into System Restore?
Click Start > All Programs (in Windows Me, it's Programs) > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore. This path opens the System Restore wizard. Immediately, you are given the choice of stepping back in time, or creating a restore point.
Click "Restore my computer to an earlier time" and select Next. This opens a window with a calendar. The boldfaced dates on the calendar have restore points. Some may have more than one. Since you are trying to save your computer, you click a boldfaced date, then select a restore point in the right-hand box.
Click Next, and you get an explanation of what is about to happen. Click Next again, and you have reversed your machine. System Restore only takes Windows and some programs backwards. This is important to know: It does not reverse any changes made in your documents. So if you recently wrote a letter to Aunt Tillie, asking to be included in her will, it will not be affected. In fact, nothing in your My Documents folder is changed.
Furthermore, no file anywhere on the hard drive with a common personal extension, such as DOC (for Microsoft Word) or XLS (for Excel), is changed. Your e-mail will not be changed, nor will anything in your Internet browser.
System Restore monitors files that are crucial to the system's performance. These have such extensions as EXE, DLL and INI. When you select a date in the System Restore wizard, it restores these files to whatever they contained on that date. If you installed a program after that restore date, you might have to reinstall it. Otherwise, you should not see changes in your computer, other than a return to stability.
2. You can make your own restore points.
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