Submitted By: Shirley Weinstein

Question: Hi, I am seeing a problem where the MS USB Sidewinder Precision wheel constantly steers left, which means you are constantly correcting it. (this is a major burden if you are going fast - as you often loose control).

Solution 1: Gidday! A most intreiguing question...yep, the Sidewinder Precision Racing Wheel is calibrated digitally, and given the symptoms you have reported, the error you are encountering is probably located in hardware. Try and download the *latest* version of DirectX (7.0a), and see if that corrects the problem (there were a few tweaks to DirectInput in version 7.0a). If this does not work, then your problem is most certainly isolated to hardware, and you should exchange your Sidewinder Wheel. - Ekapshi

Submitted By: Nick

Question: Why doesn't my print screen key work? It hasn't in a long time. My system is Pent II, 233mghtz, 96mgs ram, Win98SE, 4gig ? Any ideas? Appreciate your input.
 
Solution 1: Gidday! You haven't provided enough information, so i'm going to have to explore a few possibilities. Okay, firstly, boot into a normal windows desktop, then press your "Print Screen" button. Now, open up Windows Paint (Start/Programs/Accessories/Paint), and click "Edit/Paste". Now, if an image of your desktop is pasted into Paint, your Print Screen key *does* work. If an image is not pasted into Paint, then there must be a physical problem with your keyboard, in which case, I recommend you get a new one (if you need the Print Screen key _that_ much). That's my 2 yen. - Ekapshi.

Submitted By: Wayne

Question: Hi, I would appreciate any help or direction you can give me.
 
I was running Windows 2000 and had a problem with adding my UMAX S-12 scanner.  It made my operating system in-operable and I had to reload Windows 2000. Prior to the re-load my Epson Stylus 600 was working fine.
However, I did not have the printer cable connected when I re-loaded Windows 2000.  When I went back to add the printer it would not find the printer as a new plug and play device.  I tried to install it manually and it went through the motions except it came up with a message to do with a "digital signal" and would not install the printer.  It seemed to be looking for a eprsca.dll driver.  I went to the Epson site and Windows sites to see if I could find any info regarding this error (Error 10) or the driver.  No luck in either case. I did try a new printer cable but same problem.
Any suggestions ? Thanks for any help you can give me.

Solution 1: This may seem like a very simplistic answer, but is your SCSI chain properly terminated?
Other than that, I'm baffled! -Adam Sowalsky

Submitted By: John Sidlowich

Question: Hi there, I am using Windows2000 Professional. My computer is a part of a big network in my office. I have got a small problem hope you can help me out. In windows98, there was an application called Net Monitor using which you could see who was accessing what shared files on your computer. But I am not able to locate the same thing in Win2K. Pl. help me out.

Solution 1: As with most things in w2k, alot of the services are now in the management console, and network monitoring is no exception.  Right-click on My Computer, and choose manage.  When the "Computer Management" console appeares, click the + next to "Shared Folders (under System Tools, which is under Computer Management (local)) and click on Open Files.  That should be what you are looking for. -Adam Sowalsky

Submitted By: Manu Khanna

Question: Ever since I installed the final version of IE5.5 over IE5.1 sp1 I cannot get proper printouts of web, email, help files. Print preview shows document perfectly, but the printer is printing a single column of what look like stunted and thick letter "l's" on the extreme left of the page after the headings. These characters in groups of 3-5 usually (but could be a full page long) are between paragraphs of what should be printed. I'm using an Epson compatible 9pin dot matrix printer with W98. Have had no problems printing with previous versions of IE/OE. The printouts for Word docs are fine, as are "paused" documents dating from before IE5.5 install. Had previously installed all recommended and critical updates. Can someone help??

Solution 1: The only thing I can think of is to reinstall your printer driver.  Good luck. -Adam Sowalsky

Submitted By: Gilda

Question: Aloha, No matter what we do, or where in Windows we are, right-clicking on an icon for properties, or launching an item from the MS Office 2000 shortcut bar, the system will attempt to read from the A: drive. The NAV is disabled, and the user created a bunch of desktop shortcuts to various programs but none of them are pointing to the A: drive from what I could see. I have searched the registry for A: and A:\ but haven't found anything out of the MRU list. I have run out of ideas. Reformat would work!

Solution 1: I had the same problem with a Win95 OSR2 machine, so I shut up the drive by sticking a disk in it.  After a while, it didn't access the drive anymore.  Go figure. -Adam Sowalsky

Solution 2: Maybe regclean might help. Or a similar programme from third party. -Mean

Submitted By: Brian D. Hughes

Question: Hi, What can you tell me about the hidden IE files "index.dat" found in the Temporary Internet files folder and the History folder. The seem to do several things: 1. Keep getting bigger and bigger. 2. Can't easily be deleted (I have thru DOS). and 3. Seem to track certain web pages. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!

Solution 1: Keeps track of the way pages are cached and the cookies. Separate files of this name exist in the respective folders. -Mean

Submitted By: James Gallagher

Question: I'm currently running IE4 SP2. When I try upgrading to IE5 from CD or even from the MS update page I get the message "A previous installation never completed. Restart your computer and run setup again." I've tried that, and the fixes from the MS Site -- renaming the wininit.ini file and restarting, emptying the temp directories -- and I still get the same message. I've even been in the registry looking for 'pending' actions that might be stuck there, but there are none. Cleaning the registry hasn't helped either. Any ideas what I should try next? Thanks

Solution 1: The only thing that crosses my mind is running wininit.exe at a command prompt (press F8 at startup, boot into Command-prompt only mode). Good luck. -Adam Sowalsky

Submitted By: Mary

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