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    - Loading SP 3 I have tried to set up the SP 3. The pack downloads, but when it starts to install, after a few minutes, shows a failure ... unable to install some of the program. Has anyone else had this problem ? If anyone can assist me it sure would help. Thanks Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813304
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    - Power Saver My comparatively new Packard Bell Laptop will not power off the scree no matter it is set on 1 minute or 1 hour....I can adjust the time i takes for the screen-saver to activate. I'm certain it used to work an although I can't be certain I think installing SP3 may have been th start of my problem. I also notice that closing the lid does not see to do anything. I do not wish to manually close down as I prefer t have downloads and virus checks etc done during the night. Any hel will be much appreciated. Thanks. Te -- telboy1938 Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813290
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    - XP Not Accepting Product Key Hi All I have just done a reinstall on a friends laptop. He couldn find his version of Windows XP so i thought i would just use mine.Th problem i have is that when it comes time to type in the Product Key i wont accept the Key that is stuck to the bottom of the laptop. Th laptops XP sticker say Windows XP Professional 1 - 2 CPU and my versio of XP is Professional so why wont it work. Any help would be great Thank -- synthedi ----------------------------------------------------------------------- synthedic's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=4949 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=99109 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813288
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    - Task Icons missing, erratic behavior I have a Dell Inspiron6400 laptop wit Win XP Home, IE 7, - over the weekend I removed programs not used for ast year, cleaned up the hard drive, and defragmented. Now after reboot, it takes FOREVER to restart,and when it does the task icons in the lowr right corner, some show normaly and some show as the "Left" arrow that expands the list, when I open the list I only see "(" andhe ones that show normally do not open programs when you double click. hen the windows auto update icon shows - I gt message that it is turned off and am unable to turn back on from he- says must go to the system panel, and when I go there it wi not go to Auto mode - always stays dsabled. Oter problems alsot to system restore to reset the system - but ALL restore points were deleted!!!! I could not even go to a previous month to find one --Lastly when I go to IE 7 I cannot sign on like I used to it takes forever to go to my homepage or other sites - sometime I must try 2 or 3 time to get where I want - also I have been getting popups galore telling me my system is infected and to try their cleaner -- I have scanned with my updated McAfee and found no problems -- I have 2 other browsers - Netscape and Moz Firefox - these give me minimal problems and are very speedy I am going nuts with this - what do I do????? Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813279
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    - EX 7 Cookies not writing For some reason, all of a sudden I have to start logging in on the sites I go to that usually, I do not have to log in, when I hit my favorites, it would auto be logged in. I have looked at the Tools and made sure the cookies are on and even added some sites to the Allow Always, I even took the secuity to Low, but, no go. There are one or two sites that I can go to, where I do not have this problem, but most, I do. This started around June7. The only thing I can think of, is an auto updated downloaded and installed, but I have no idea what it was. Any HELP would be appreciated. Syd Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813277
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    - IRQL blue screen problem, need help! Hello, Have a problem width DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL debug screen. I have play MMORPG and always when i leave my character online to sel some stuff, my computer turn off all alone because electrical problem in my street. When I start XP again, and run the game again, I have a DUMP blu screen width IRQL message: *** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0xBF849B03, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xA2048C0F) win32k.sys - Adress BF849B03 base at BF800000, DateStamp 41107f7a dump_wmimmc.sys - Adress A2048C0F base at A2041000, DateStamp 48463890 I try to check my HDD width chkdsk, do some Diskcleanup, also I try t disable BIOS caching and shadowing, reinstaling display drivers, etc. When I do those things, the game starts normaly, but always when P crash (self restart) I have a Blue IRQL dump message, and I must d those things again and again. I try to by some good UPS device to prevent electrical problems, bu haven't cash yet. So, What shall I do to prevent comming up a blue screen again? regards -- Corsai ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CorsaiR's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=5196 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=99091 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813272
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    - MS Whistler Personal My neighbor gave me his HP Pavilion 751N computer. It consists of a Pentium 4 cpu, 1.80 ghz, 224 mb ram, SIS 650, and a 72Gb HD. It also has a CD Writer, DVD player, 3.5 diskette drive and a couple of low speed USB ports. He could not locate the restore disk for the computer and thinks it was discarded. When I start it in the safe mode and then switch to regular mode it states it's running Microsoft Whistler Personal. This is some type of XP OS. There seems to be many more programs and folders on the C: hard drive than show up in add/remove programs. This is true even in the safe mode. They are also present on the start/all programs menu and even though I've not checked all of them many can be clicked on and run. I am asking for some input and help on: 1. Is there a way to see the programs in the add/remove programs screen or somewhere so I can remove what I don't want? 2. I have an unopened copy of MS XP Professional and would like to know if I can overwrite the Whistler Personal XP and how? 3. If #2 is true do I then need to find drivers for the CD, DVD and USB devices? TIA.... Gene Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813269
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    - Windows Defender Does Windows Defender need to be left running minimized to provide real time protection. When I close it I don't see an icon anywhere. Help file does not explain. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813264
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    - Sierra Home 4.0 This was posted awhile back to fix an issue with Sierra Home Archetec 4.0 When i tried this the issue was fixed for Xp Pro. But how bou XP(64)bit. it will install but it wont run. anyone have any ideas? even did what the guy sugested and a new error came up. please help m :D also does anyone know of any issues that will happen with vista whe i upgrade to it in the future? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave, Try copying the file msvcrt.dll found in c:\windows\system32\ folde into the Sierra Home Architect 4.0 folder. This should be in C:\Program Files\Sierra Home Architect 4.0 <- or whatever they call it.... (if XP guidelines have been followed by the developer.) FIRST any msvcrt.dll file actually already in the Home Architec folder(s) should be renamed to msvcrt.dll.old just in case.... Good Luck, CreateWindow http://mymessagetaker.com "BigFoot Dave" <bfdave28@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:462ea3c5$0$5795$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... > New to group..forgive me if this has been covered before. > > I use Sierra Home Architect 4.0. All of a sudden cannot open. I get > error "The procedure entry point _resetstkoflw could not be locate in the > dynamic link library MSVCRT.DLL. Attempted MS fix 324762 (restore > original MSVCRT.DLL file)...this did nothing. Any help would b greatly > appreciated. Thank You!! -- seankem ----------------------------------------------------------------------- seankemp's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=5195 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=99085 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813256
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    - 0x0000008e error message I have a Sony Vaio Laptop ( I don't know anything more than that othe than it is less than 2 years old) and I booted it up today and then i went to the blue error shutdown screen with this stop code: 0x0000008e (0x00000005, 0x84cf0731, 0xAA350c3c, 0x00000000) What can I do to fix this problem? Safe mode works for me but I don' know where to go from there...or even if that is where I start -- lost_in_computer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- lost_in_computers's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=5195 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=99079 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813252
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    - Memorized/Reoccurring Transactions How do you setup a Memorized/Reoccurring charge Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813251
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    - Windows XP won't restart from shutdown Windows XP SP3 will not restart from shutdown. I have to reboot to bring Windows back up Any advice? Dave Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813241
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    - xp repair If unable to start computer how do you uninstall Internet explorer 7 before repairing xp. It says that Internet explorer will not run if you try to repair over it. I cannot even start the computer in safe mode. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813236
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    - Computer keeps rebooting When I turn on my computer a screen comes up asking if I want to start in safe mode or normally and then just shuts down and reboots again. Please help - I know I have a virus, just not sure how to remove. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813230
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    - Setting Opening default size for Folders I would like to set my system to have all files open in full size, and I can't seem to find the tool to do that. I need some directions that I, a somewhat competent, but technically unsavy user, can understand. Thanks Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813229
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    - interface Will someone please reply to this as I am testing my interface with this newsgroup. My isp has been no help but I think i finally have it right. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813226
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    - prevented me from accessing hotmail I have Windows XP SP2, with firefall enabled. I was previously infected with a virus that prevented me from accessing hotmail, yahoo mail, gmail, or even windows live mail. Also could not use MSN Live Messenger (however was able to use Trillian). AVG detected the trojan horse and quarantined it. But I still can't access my hotmail. I even tried installing SP3 but that didn't help. Anyone know of this issue and how to solve? Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813224
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    - XP now takes over 4 minutes to boot to desktop I am running WindowsXP pro and upto sp2 my system used to boot/load to the desktop in under 1 minute 30 secs with 2Gb of ram and a 2.8gHz dual core cpu. Now since I installed sp3, although the system is a bit quicker, ie programs load a bit quicker, explorer is a bit quicker etc, after a reboot, it takes over 4 minutes to load the desktop, and sometimes it does not load my network connections. This window is a blank, so I have to reboot yet again and waith another 4 minutes plus to see if it will load network connections 2nd time around. Any suggestions as to what I can do to get back to a quick boot up time etc. Should I uninstall sp3? Thanks Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813219
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    - Outlook 2003 very slow I have XP Pro SP2 with OL 2003. I recently ran Spybot and Spyblaster which loaded my restricted zone with URLs. (I probably didn't need to do that since I have a commercial version of AVG 8.0) Subsequently, it took 40 to 50 seconds to open or send an email. I removed all URLs from both Restricted and Trusted zones and rebooted. Emails now open or send in 30 seconds. The same day I also removed IM from Startup. Does anyone have any other ideas about what I can do to get my email speed back into an acceptable range? Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813204
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    - Windows X sp3 to Windows XP sp2 How can I install the Windows XP SP2 back? Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813203
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    - Corrupted Files I have two MS Word files, one in a doc file and the other in a wbk, that I can neither open nor delete. When I try to delete, open, or copy over these files, I get a message that the procedure is prohibited because the file name and path are too long or because the path does not exist and that I should remap that Network drive; the file reside on HDD C and is in a two folders down in the My Documents folder. I have a copy of this file on a USD HDD and would like to erase both of these files, but wonder if anyone knows how I could do this. I have tried and cannot copy over either of these files. The condition of these files prevents copying and backing-up the My Documents folder. Any help would be appreciated. I am using Microsoft Office v2003, Windows XP - SP-1, and Dell Pentium IV running at about 3 GHz with a 150 GB HDD. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813202
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    - XP Fax - How to Extend Time Needed to Connect I have one of those calling cards that takes awhile to get through the prompts, but when it finally does, the Windows fax program hangs up because it took too long to sense a connection and says the line is busy. What Can I do to extend the time that the fax utility expects to sense another fax machine? Thanks much. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813201
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    - Aborted XP upgrade Hope someone can help, cos I am stuck Have a laptop running XP Home. Went to upgrade to XP Pro but there is a corrupted file on the disk and setup only went so far (first restart) before stopping. I am left with2 startup options - 'Windows XP Home' (now set to default) and 'Windows XP Professional Setup'. There is also a folder - C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT - with, presumably, the unused setup files for XP Pro. My real question is - how do return the computer to the state before I started the interrupted installation of XP Pro ? I know it isn't just as simple as deleting the above folder and some other files in the root directory, but what can I safely delete and what other measures do I have to take ? Really appreciate someone's help Thanks Rick Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813195
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    - USB 2 problem I recently had trouble with USB external drives - suddenly becoming 'unknown devices'. I have now narrowed the problem and wonder if anyone can help me solve it. In Devices, when I disable 'SiS PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller', the drives are recognised again - but only running at USB 1.1 speeds. Some USB 2 only devices just do not work. Enabling the 'SiS.... etc' immediately makes these devices become 'unknown' and will not show up in Windows Explorer or anywhere alse. I have tried the Microsoft hotfix for recognising USB 2 devices but this has had no effect. Can someone please shed some light in the darkness ? Thanks Rick Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813193
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    - cannot install east asian languages the error message is "Windows setup could not copy the appropriate files", happens with and without XP CD. I'm using XP SP3 Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813192
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    - What is the 1394 connection? An XP Pro loaded as part of a multi-boot with pre-loaded Vista has a 1394 connection, said to be 'connected' and using '1394 Net adapter' but does NOT have 'Local Area Connection' although Vista does (as well as 1394). What IS the 1394 connection and what is it connecting to what? Presumably I need a driver for the Ethernet. Vista tells me it's Intel 82562V-2 10/100. The support CD that came with the (Medion) system has something called Intel LAN software but that doesn't seem to do the job. Presumably I can get the drivers from Intel but does anyone know how to copy the drivers from the Vista installation? Thanks Derek Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813191
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    - How up upgrade a motherboard on a windows XP system So, you want to swap out that old slow motherboard with something fast and cheap? How hard could it be - my advice, be afraid, be very afraid .... Here are my adventures in upgrading my motherboard, may your installation go better than mine. I had a 5 year old k7VM2 ASRock 1.67 Ghz AMD XP 2000. I found a Elitegroup GEForce6100PM-M2 with a 2.7 GHZ dual proc Athlon 64 with 2GB for $180. The speed really hasn't gone up that much over the years, it still takes several minutes to boot XP. I thought, I'd just unscrew the motherboard, put in the new one and put back all the cables and I'd be back in business. Well, I got the motherboard back in OK. One tip I had was to take a picture of the USB and front panel connectors so I could then put them back the same way on the new motherboard after I had confirmed they had the same pinout. These connectors are all separate, but they were labeled in my old case. I booted up and up came the POST screen OK, so I knew the motherboard was ok, but as soon as it tried to boot to XP, it would just restart. I guessed that I have to reinstall the operating system. I found this helpful link on how to upgrade a motherboard with XP http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html If you're going to upgrade your motherboard with your existing drive, you pretty much have to assume you're going to lose everything on it. Since there is no practical way to backup multi-gigibyte drives, I would seriously consider getting a new harddisk and then reattach your old one for the files. This means hours of reinstallation, but you might avoid the headache I'm about to describe. When I tried doing the upgrade, I had problems with the system flaking out on me with the screen suddently display repeating parts of the screen and dying. It would often start the part of the install where it is verifying the disk and then just die. Several times. There may still be a problem with the motherboard, but I found that it started to stop recognizing the CD ROM drive and wouldn't respond to the correct master/slave/cable select settings. Ultimately, I found the problem when the IDE connector broke off in my hand as I pulled the cable. A bad cable can really make your day hard. I tried another older cable I had and I was still getting flaky operation. Finally, I used the new IDE cable that came with my motherboard, and that seemed to make it work a lot better, although I still saw some flakyness. Moral of the story - if they give you a cable, use it - do not use old IDE cables, they don't work. When it did get through the installer start, it would put up a The file 'Asms' on Windows XP Professional CD-ROM is needed" message, see support.microsoft.com 311755 This happens because when the setup restarts, it can't load the CD-ROM driver and can't read the cd-rom at all. The only way around this is to copy the i386 directory from the setup disk to the harddisk before you start installation. I was able to use xcopy because I had an old windows98 boot disk that I had around along with a 98 setup CD. You might want to have these handy. If you're paranoid, I'd copy the i386 directory to your harddisk before you start. All of this crashing means I have to sit through a lot of 'your disk needs to be checked for consistency' and rebooting xp from the setup disk which takes forever. I think I must have done this about 100 times. At one point I had damaged my boot.ini file and setup said that the disk was corrupted and could not be repaired and it aborted installation. At this point, I thought all my data and program setup was lost. Also at another point, it said that it could not find an existing version of windows. It somehow erased the file \winxp\system32\controls \system. Fortunately, the system keeps a copy at system.sav, so I copied that and got going. I used the recovery console to do that, but you have to know the administrator password to do that. I forgot mine. I ended up re-attaching my old motherboard and resetting the administrator password. Moral of the story, know your administrator password before you begin. But you can repair the boot.ini file. See: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/repairbootini.htm After that, it was able to complete the repair install of XP. None of the drivers appeared to install by themselves, so I had to run the setup Cd that came with motherboard. It would install each component and then force a reboot - about 5 reboots in all - did I tell you that XP doesn't boot very fast? Well, now, I'm back to my old system pretty much, but now I need to install service pack 2 and possibly 3 along with a zillion other secuity updates. When I do the upgrade, the flakyness comes back and I have several attempts where the screen goes wacky and I have to try again. When it does start, it says that "Access denied" during the install and it quits and then takes several minutes uninstalling itself. How annoying. I find support article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873148 I attempt the 2nd method to reset security back to defaults, but after another lengthy download/install, it still says access denied. Ultimately, I set all keys under HKCR to the same as the security at the root. I still had problems. I found the following message: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/browse_frm/thread/8de000caa89ac286/c2e82a3cae2d84a7?lnk=st&q=imsiserver#c2e82a3cae2d84a7 I removed my anti-virus and anything else I could delete in my startup, deleted the adcctl.adcctl.1 key. I looked at all the other keys mentioned in the message. After restarting the install and letting it copy files, I then reset all keys in HKCR to allow admin access while it was copying files. It finally got past the registry key part. During several attempts, the computer crashes, so I try removing the cd-rom to see if that improves the situation. It hasn't crashed so far. I started this project on saturday afternoon and now it is 11:00 PM sunday night. Waiting for sp2 to finish ... Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813187
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    - my computer properties system information missing I am running Windows XP Pro, SP2, on a Dell Workstation computer. The problem started with a "restore my active desktop" and a message that there were scripts running on the page. I then had My Computer problems. First, when I opened it, nothing showed up. Then, I had to control-alt-del to close it, and then the desktop blanked out for a time, and then I got the restore desktop message again. When I right-clicked My computer and left-clicked properties, the system information window did not appear. I tried system restore, but the computer hung up on shutting down. I could not get it to work, even in safe mode.. I removed any programs I had installed prior to that. I moved some drivers out of the system 32 drivers folder as a way to correct some of this, and it did (instructions from Microsoft support website.)-- I used CCLeaner to delete all temporary files and cookies. I searched this forum for a resolution to this, but I couldn't find anything. There was one post that was similar, and the suggestion was to look for the file windir%\system32\oeminfo.ini, but it does not exist on my system. I did a virus scan with AVG, and there was no virus. I ran Spybot and Spysweeper and got rid of some tracking cookies. The lack of the system information window when I click on My Computer properties is the main problem now. I have no problem opening my documents and programs. I originally could not connect to the internet with IE, but that has resolved. Is there anything else I should check to see if it is working? Thank you for your help. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813181
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    - fonts can i download fonts for wordpad?? if i can.. where can i go?? Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813176
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    - Did My Computer Crash? I own a Dell Inspiron 8600. 2 weeks ago my wife was using it and she says in froze and then turned off. Now when I turn it on It starts booting and then it beeps and gives me this message; "Primary hard disk drive 0 not found No bootable devices -- strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility" Any ideas of what happened or what I should do guys or gals? Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813170
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    - DirectX I am trying to resolve an issue - when running the DirectX Diagnostic Tool > Display > Test Direct3D the first to tests are succesfull and I see the "directX" spinning cube in the middle of the screen. But the final test of the 3D 9.0 interfaces shows me a spinning cube split in two in the left part of the screen. I have installed the latest 9.0c version of directx. Have updated the drivers for my Nvidia GEforce 6200 SE TurboCashe TM vga. I encountered the problem when trying to play an old game, so I started the diagnostic tool. I have tried changing resolution and switching to a lower colour quality, but those things didnt help. Any ideas? Thanx in advance Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813169
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    - Help with user groups (I think) My PC had a problem and I had to take it for service. Apparently the repair tech put on another user and it's totally different from my desktop and files. I can't access my Outlook for one thing. I saw on here how to "take ownership" of my old user group, but I don't know how to change the one being used for the correct one. When I go to user groups, I can only see one, and not the one the tech put on. I'm not sure I'm even right about this or if that's the problem or how to describe exactly what's wrong. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or how to help me? Thank you in advance! Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813166
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    - Computer is really mest up My computer started to randomly crash so I wiped it then it did it again and I wiped it again Realizing this doesn't help I started to try other things I downloaded a new driver for my NVidia Display Driver or something like that The error said something about a MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION and I have a stop error Stop: 0x0000009C (0x00000004,0x8054DA70,0xB200010,0c00010C0F) ocassionally it works but not always .... anyways any help is greatly aprreciated Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813163
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    - SP3 caused AMD to reboot... but no Intelppm to revalue Hi there I'm writing this on behalf of my dad, who's in Spain. I'm in the UK so I'm trying to help him over the phone, and it's not easy. I won't go in to too many details as you all know the problem: an AMD processor, SP3 installed back in May, no problems initially but for the past two weeks it's been rebooting (unless you go into Safe Mode and then restart, and occasionally it will go in normally, but this can take many attempts). I know the fix, go to Safe Mode, then Regedit, then HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \System\CurrentControlSet\Services and then go to Intelppm and change the Start value from 1 to 4. However, there is no Intelppm, it goes straight from IntelIde to Ip6Fw. He's checked the other ControlSets. He doesn't have a ControlSet001 for some reason, he has an 002, 003 and 004 and the Current one. However, changing just the Current one should be enough. Intelppm is not in any of them. Anyone have any further ideas of fixes? Tried rolling back but it was a while ago, back in mid May. He could try reinstalling XP but I'd be worried about this, as this is not something I'd like to risk over the phone. Would also mean having to reinstall all the patches since his initial XP CD (from ages ago), and he has a sloooow connection. Thanks.... Any thoughts appreciated. I have had a look on the Net, but have not yet found anyone else who has had this reboot problem and who also has not got an Intelppm section within their current Services. We've also tried typing "sc config intelppm start= disabled" into Run Many thanks Tristán Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813158
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    - XP Pro peer to peer limitation ? I am trying to help a friend currently running a XP Pro peer to peer networking, the system were setup by someone else many years ago but now they cant find the guy anymore, so I step in to help with some of the problems they are having. They store their PST on the XP pro machine, 6 users, each PST between 300MB to 1.2GB, sometime one user (same user) cant access her PST, but after a few hours (with no other users logging off the system) her email magically works again, but this can be random, I am wondering of XP Pro has the same user count limit as 2000 (10 concurrent) ? I am in middle of planning to upgrade the whole network to SBS2003, but need time to work out how their files are store first and what apps they use, its a mess, some files are stored on the XP Pro, some on workstations, and using Vice Versa to sync the data to the XP Pro PC, why ? I dont have a clue :) But in the meantime, I suspect XP Pro should support the number of users, except for the PST, most files are pretty small (DOC/XLS), the LAN are on 100Mbps with 1 station using ethernet-over-power adapters on 85Mbps (this user dont have connection issues) Thanks for any help Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813157
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    - USB external hard disk problem Had several 2.5 and 3.5 external hard disks plus a memory stick that plugged into the USB ports on my laptop. They have all now come up as unknown devices. I think XP does not need drivers for these but I cant get it to recognise them. Fairly sure it is not a hardware problem (happens on all ports). Re-installed Service Pack 2 - no change. Went to re-install manufactureres recovery disk for XP Home which said that my existing version is newer than that on the recovery disk - I assume because of subsequent iinstallation of SP 2. Do I have to re-install XP Home regardless ? Does anyone know how I can get XP to recognise these drives please, as I am slowly going mad with frustration ? Thanks Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813144
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    - Monitor not going into sleep mode I appreciate the fast response to my initial question, but I don't know how to check to see if something is running in the background. Can you supply that information? Jt Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813140
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    - shell32dll,control_Rundll.hotplug dll I have acronis 11 installed on My xp home pc running service pack 3 all patches and updates, On removing any usb device after clicking on safely remove an error appears big red x staing an exception ocurred shell 32dll control rundll hotplug dll offset 000048be also error report faulting application rundl32 exe version 5.12600,5512 faulty module unknown version 0000 fault address 0x0000110el pc works fine just cannot get rid of this error message can anyone help please theres plenty on the net acronis are aware of the problem but absolutely no help as to when there is a solution I have rebuilt my pc 6 times from scratch and feel tottally dispondant thats why i did an image to save me another rebuild! Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813139
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    - help please with XPpro recovery console suddenly i can't boot into Windows. BIOS is not detecting either of my SATA HDDs. It does see my floppy my DVDRW and the external USB hardrive, and it put the external hdd in the boot sequence. i cannot put the c drive into the boot sequence cause it isn't being detected. want to try to use the recovery console, although i think the problem is in the PSU or the Mobo. when i boot off the XP system disk, it gets to the menu where i select to run the recovery console, get to a DOS screen that invites me tp type EXIT. but no options to run the recovery console. in a support book it says that to enter the number of the XP installation, but there is no opportunity to enter anything other than to reinstall XP, quit or run the recovery console. i do not want to reinstall XP and loose my data. i am stuck. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813133
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    - auto log off had a virus, bought virus removal software, removed it. Now at log on screen, put in password for either acct and comp automatically logs back off immediatley. cant get on comp to check anything please help! brad Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813129
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    - Windows XP RC1 Is it still possible to use the original Windows XP RC1 download candidate? It seems to install just fine...can it be activated just like other versions of XP (SP1. SP2, etc)? I was one of the original beta testers and found the CD laying around in some of my software collection and was wondering if I could use it? Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813120
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    - Monitor not going into sleep mode I've been having this problem for a long time. My monitor will not go into sleep or idle mode. Sometimes it will, but it seems lately, that it won't. I have updated the video driver per Dell support as I have a Dell Dimension 9100. It worked the day I installed the updated driver but then the following day, it stopped working. Does anyone have a clue on how to fix this? I'm to the point that when I'm away from my computer I just turn off the monitor manually. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813119
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    - Latest XP Bluetooth V2 patch fried our XP-Pro Having auto-updates on was the death of our server (peer to peer really). Fri AM came in and XP was in a BSOD loop. Fine. Finally got it working by doing a system restore for a few days back from the update. Should have left it there. At the end of the day I decided (since it seemed like an important update) to re-try the install. Big mistake. Well now no amount of system restore points will bring it out of the BSOD state. safe mode is still useable ;). Tomorrow (Mon) I'll go access the damage. I see nothing short of a long annoying re-install here but figured I'd ask to see if anyone has any ideas. BTW: None of the other 6 computers choked on this upgrade. One possible issue is that the .net ver 1.1 installer had been damaged (?) prior to this upgrade. Couldn't re-install nor un-install 1.1 prior to this (Yes an issue I was planning on tackling at "sometime") though the one program (that I know of) that relied on it worked just fine. Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813107
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    - Can't empty recycle bin Hello, When I try to empty the recycle bin I get a message saying: Do you really want to delete (a certain file). I say yes and then get the message Can't delete Dc30. Access refused. I don't know what Dc30 is. When I open the recycle bin there isn't anything in it however its icon on the desktop indicates that something is in it. What's going on? Thanks, Norman Stein Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813104
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    - NOT an ntldr is missing question, but a problem Ever since I upgraded to an nvidia chipset based MB I've had this issue w ntldr. Long story short, at SP@ I couldn't boot into Windows XP Home. Tried MS support and a host of other places but no luck. No minidumps and the BSOD was not helpful. BUT I could boot to XP using the VGA switch in boot.ini. Anyways after a bit of trial and error I found that if I replace the ntldr progam from SP@ w/ the original ntldr program on my XP CD all was fine. well it's SP time again and apparently the ntldr file was changed again so the very same problem occurrs. As I type XP is fine after booting into vga mode and the recofiguring my display so it's viewable ;) I know I can just set boot.ini to always boot into vga mode but after years I really want to try to solve this annoying problem. I'm pretty sure someday my ntldr swap will not work and have yet to attempt it w/ SP3 installed. Anyone see such a crazy problem? MS support once inferred it was due to an incompatability w/ my AMD64 CPU. Crazy huh? Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813103
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    - Go Button / Refresh Button on IE7 My Go button seems to have turned into a Refresh Button on IE7 and I want my Go Button back. Help please! Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813101
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    - Virus? Help please. I keep getting a message saying: "System Error Attention Kit! Some dangerous trojan horses detected in your system. Microsoft windows XP files corrupted. This may lead to the destruction of important files in C:\Windows. Download protection software now. Click ok to download the antispyware (Recommended)". Needless to say I do not do this. But it still opens the browser and goes to http://free-virusscan.com How do I get rid of this please? I have AVG Anti-virus but even though it is updated it does not detect it. I just did a complete scan and AVG did not pick anything up. Thanks Kit Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813097
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    - How to use Hive Clean up I understand that sometimes a program does not close cleanly, because there is an interruption and the system stops abruptly - ( we have a lot of power cuts where I live) . I downloaded theclean up prog, but don't know how to use it. TIAfor help Kimig1 Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813096
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    - XP home SP3 requests restart at every boot up This problem reoccurs intermittently. I have previously solved it ( sort of) by using system restore, but after an interval of days or sometimes weeks, it comes back. If I allow system to restart, it still requests a furhter restart. help, please? TIA Kimig Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813095
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    - "Administrator loss." TIA I seem to have lost admin control. ie; cannot enter registry "regedit" as I get the message "Registry editing have been disabled by your administrator". Also, the method of "opening" hidden files has gone. Any help with this problem will be gratefully accepted. TIA Tag: Sp3 Tag: 813094

I am following advice in order to remove SP3 on my laptop. It has gon
through processes Inspection / Checking / Stopping Services / Restorin
Catalogue and has been £Running processes before Uninstallfor the pas
hour.
Anyone know if this is normal please? Te

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