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    - Error 1402 when trying to uninstall a program Running XP Home SP3. I downloaded a trial version of Migo Software PC Backup Pro. Had problems running the program, and wanted to uninstall. Uninstalling in Contol Panel/A/R Programs yeilds an "Error 1402. Could not open key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\.nbk\Shell New. Verify you have sufficient access." Searched MS KB articles and found kb236592. Went into Registry, found key, right clicked, selected permissions, changed to give me full control, checked "Replac e permission entries on all child objects..." Tried to uninstall again, got same error message. I am unable to send a support inquiry to Migo Tech Support since I didn't buy, and don't have a serial number. Located their phone numbers. One doesn't connect, the other doesn't answer. I recall thet Microsoft had a uninstall utility that I used to get rid of some Symantec "leftovers". Is it still available would it work? Please help. -- Phil Runyon 57 Tag: xp repair Tag: 815471
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    - Trouble with Microsoft Word When I finish composing a document and go to "Save As" in the FILE pull down menu I get a small window titled MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC. In the window it says, "compile error in hidden module:Main". There are 2 buttons, 1 says ON and the other says HELP.If I click on OK, the window goes away, (no SAVE AS action) If I click on HELP a new window appears titled "Microsoft Office XP Professional with Front Page". In the box it says, "Please wait while windows configures Microsoft XP Professional with Front Page" Then it wants me to insert "microsoft Office XP Professional with Front Page"disk and click OK. I do not have Windows XP Professional, I have Windows XP Home Edition. This whole thing started when I loaded the language recognition software, IBM's ViaVoice. In an attempt to fix the problem I went to the Control Panel and removed theViaVoice software but that did not fix the problem. I assume the ViaVoice had a file conflict somewhere with my MS Word. Any help would be appreciated. Loring Hutchinson Loringh@yahoo.com Tag: xp repair Tag: 815459
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    - New XP Pro in dual-boot is mute Hi Folks, The computer (Medion Multimedia PC MD8833) has Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I have installed a newly-bought XP Pro in a separate partition as a dual boot setup. All in XP is now working after several trials and tribulations EXCEPT the sound. Realtek High Definition Audio is on the motherboard. Attempts to install drivers for it, from various sources including the CD supplied with the computer as 'XP Drivers', a file recommended by DriverDetective and one from Realtek site, fail towards the end of the installation process with a cryptic 'failed' message. One error code announced is 0xE0000227 Does anyone know what this means and what has generated it? I wonder if anyone else has encountered this sort of problem with sound in a dual boot? The Vista installation partition is Hidden and Vista has not been booted at all when I try these installations. The Installshield runs for quite a long time, extracting many files and it is almost at the end of a progress bar when it fails. This seems to imply that it thinks it is installing to the correct hardware?? It may be relevant that, if I go into Device Manager (where a yellow ! is shown against this item) and ask Windows to reinstall the driver, nothing at all happens when that button is clicked. Also 'uninstall' does not work - something says 'device may be needed to boot up' which is surely ridiculous!? Any ideas on how I proceed to get sound working? TIA Derek Tag: xp repair Tag: 815458
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    - explorer.exe proccess keeps stoping Greetings, I am working on a Dell dimension 4600 that was riddeld with spyware. I've done several scans and install AV protection. However, at startup the explorer.exe process keeps crashing caussing the desktop to flash about every 5-10 seconds. This happens in safe mode also. I can get to a command prompt and launch task from there. I've done: 1) Scanned with counterspy and spy-bot S&D 2) Scanned with McAfee 2008 3) sfc /scannow 4) installed SP3 5) Reinstalled video driver 6) Uninstalled any unnecessary programs Any ideas out there? -- Glen Spidal Cybercorp Computers Tag: xp repair Tag: 815455
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    - slow boot up I have winXP Home/WSP3, when I boot up it take about 15-20 minutes to boot. once I boot the computer works normally as it should. I have tried to disable several start up items, but the computer still takes aover 15 minutes to boot up. How can I lower boot up speed? Tag: xp repair Tag: 815454
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    - Need help disabling a function key/shortcut key I turned the ?/ key on to act as an F10 key, how do I turn that off? Tag: xp repair Tag: 815450
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    - sfc.exe command -- only show problems, not replace. Hi. Is there a way to have sfc.exe only show problems and not repair/fix/replace? Thank you in advance. :) -- "I killed an ant, now all my relatives are afraid of me." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: philpi@earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant@zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815444
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    - Windows XP reinstall Yesterday I got a trojan and virus. I installed XP again and choosed the full version. But that version went to Partition D: instead of C:. I should have choosed to complete. But I did not see that before it was too late. Now I have Windows XP at two places.I have installed Panda virus program at C afterwards. I have also been able to clean my system from the trojan. My question is how I get the computer to start Windows XP with the version at C. Perhaps I must install some Office programs again. But how can I do get rid of one version. I want to have Windows away from partition D: Before I used MSDOS to make the C: partition empty with format C: in earlier version of Windows. How can I do? I am a little tired of install again. LG Tag: xp repair Tag: 815442
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    - Install Yesterday I got a trojan and virus. I installed XP again and choosed the full version. But that version went to Partition D: instead of C:. I should have choosed to complete. But I did not see that before it was too late. Now I have Windows XP at two places.I have installed Panda virus program at C afterwards. I have also been able to clean my system from the trojan. My question is how I get the computer to start Windows XP with the version at C. Perhaps I must install some Office programs again. But how can I do get rid of one version. I want to have Windows away from partition D: Before I used MSDOS to make the C: partition empty with format C: in earlier version of Windows. How can I do? I am a little tired of install again. LG Tag: xp repair Tag: 815441
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    - Netmeeting causes remote keyboard to fail I was conducting a Netmeeting session with a remote Windows XP laptop user last Friday. After our session was over their keyboard would only type gibberish. Rebooting did not help. I set up another Netmeeting this morning and without doing anything other than setting up the meeting the problem went away. I had the user power cycle the laptop and the problem returned. Once again we set up the Netmeeting and the problem was resolved. Does anyone know what causes this and how it can be resolved? -- Thanks, Bendar Tag: xp repair Tag: 815440
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    - Does XP Pro. SP3 have newer ntdll.dll and explorer.exe? Hello. I am having problems with my XP SP2's explorer.exe v6.0.2900.3156 crashing with ntdll.dll v5.1.2600.2180. I am wondering if SP3 have newer versions of explorer.exe and ntdll.dll. Thank you in advance. :) -- "I killed an ant, now all my relatives are afraid of me." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: philpi@earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant@zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815427
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    - Updates will not install I picked up my computer from the shop a few days ago after a re-build of the OS system (XP Home). While in the shop I let them install Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Webroot SpySweeper, but nothing else. Now that I am at home, I keep getting the message that updates are ready for my computer. I instruct it to download and install (Express Install) the updates. A few seconds later, I get the message that: Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 (KB936181) Security Update for Windows XP (KB951748) Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2008 (KB890830) Update for Windows XP (KB951978) Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB950759) CANNOT BE INSTALLED. I thought that either NAV or Spy Sweeper might be blocking it. I turned off SpySweeper (but can't figure out HOW to turn off NAV) and tried again (actually tried six times) with the same results. Don't I need these updates? And if so, what are some suggestion for resolving the problem? Thanks in advance. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815426
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    - How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? When I start a search for files using Windows XP it always open the Windows Desktop Search. Since this almost never finds what I am looking for, and doesn't allow date ranges, I always end up using the 'Click here to use Search Companion" link at the bottom. Is there a way to make all searches default to the Search Companion? Tag: xp repair Tag: 815424
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    - Where do I stick my license key? It's a VERY long story... I have a dell Dimension 2300 with xp home that's gone corrupt. I don't have the Administrator password, so I've limited access to clean things up. I decided to just reload it. It won't install from the i386 partition on the hard drive. Complains that it needs drivers.cab and mstask.ini. When I borrow those from another similar Dell machine, it gets a lot further but has problems: sxs.dll finds syntax errors in default.man... Ok, I give up. I cloned the drive from a Dimension 4550 and after a lot of messing around with drivers, it appears to work and msoobe claims it's activated. Now, I have two machines with the same license key. I have two keys for the 2300. One from the sticker on the case and a different one extracted from the registry. I "understand" that's normal for an OEM preinstall??? I also saved the wpa.dbl file from the original disk. So, to make it all legal, which key do I use and how do I get it into the right place...without screwing up the activation? What's the risk of doing nothing? Am I likely to encounter downloading or activation-related problems later? Tag: xp repair Tag: 815421
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    - Permissions problem after upgrade Hi all I just upgraded my 2000 server with an additional 1gb RAM. Now I have a problem.. Users (which are not admins) are complaining that they cannot save a file which they open from their folder on the server. They have full rights on their respective folder but still they cannot save, change filename or delete file.. it says a sharing violation or something like that. Also the office files are leaving like TMP files when opened and I cant delete these files also! Can someone suggest a solution to this problem please?? Thanks a lot! Tag: xp repair Tag: 815414
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    - help: drwtsn32.exe error with 0xc0000142 Dear all, My computer couldnt start. Every time it failed with the message: application error application failed to initialize properly (0Xc0000142) click ok to terminate the application. I could not terminate it even though i clicked OK. I tried with save mode,...., all failed. Please help me out! Charles Tag: xp repair Tag: 815411
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    - Don't get Login Screen Hello, I know that I may have to chase this up with the Nortons Ghost help, but I wanted to know what it may have done to cause the following. I have XP2 with what I believe is all the latest updates. I have not put SP3 on unless it just did that automatically. I have had a few crashes and lost too much stuff in the past and wanted to clone my primary C drive so if it happens again I don't have to spend days getting things up to speed again. I used Ghost to clone the C (with XP) partition to a good drive of the same make, size etc.. I have done this umpteem times so know what I am doing. It did it's job well and when I rebooted I was able to continue my work. When I had time, I wanted to check the clone drive so swapped it. It booted up fine but when I was expecting to get the Login screen, I got another same colour and style screen, but with a smaller XP Windows logo etc. I was unable to interact with it as there was nothing to interact with although the mouse was moving fine. Any ideas on this? Thanks rock Tag: xp repair Tag: 815401
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    - IE displays BIG letters Suddenly when I manually ran Windows Update, the display was like one for someone who is legally blind. (Very BIG letters and images) It's like someone turned a giant magnifying glass on the content of IE 7.x IE does this on every page for every web site, even with encoding set to Auto. It still happens. -- ________ Brian M. Kochera mailto:brian1951@earthlink.net Tag: xp repair Tag: 815397
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    - System Restore points have disappeared Whilst trying to resolve a problem I performed a System Restore to a point on 1st June. I subsequently chose to undo that restore and now I have no restore points beyond 1st July. Is this normal? Gallopinhairpin Tag: xp repair Tag: 815396
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    - explorer.exe problems I have recently encountered a problem with my Dell laptop running XP. The first thing I noticed was that my desktop background disappeared, replaced by a plain blue screen. Then after a while explorer.exe would shut down right after I logged in. Now when I use Task Manager to boot explorer.exe it boots up and shuts down over and over. Anyone know the problem here? I suspect some kind of virus but I have no idea where to begin. Thanks. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815388
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    - Blotchy XP Open Screen, Dots Around Cursor & Sys Tray Icons I just installed XP Home SP3, but that may be just a coincidence. Since then, the XP Open Screen has blue dashes or sometimes blue squares or rectangles scattered throughout the black background. Cursor arrow lower half is dots or other times has a rectangle of black dots horizontally on either side of its lower half. In systems tray, PC-cillin icon bottom half has dots in it, the Quicktime icon has a rectangle of dots through the bottom half and the Creative Diagnostics Agent icon is just a rectangle of dots. Otherwise, all screens are clear and no operating problems with Word, IE or anything else. I tried a system restore, so then I had to reload SP3. I did a Safe Mode start and the cursor looked fine. I did a scandisk and disk cleanup. Still the same problems. I didn't want to get into msconfig.exe for fears of screwing something up, so I thought I'd ask for help. Is it something I can fix without reloading Windows (I hope)? -- Thanks, Mike Tag: xp repair Tag: 815387
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    - disc clean what is "Setup Log Files" and can I safely remove them. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815379
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    - after changed motherboard xp won't boot This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030007080108020604080106 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have installed XP on my harddrive and all my files are on that hard drive, but Xp won't boot with newer motherboard. It asks me to go to safe mode...or ...normal windows entry...but on both functions the blue screen appears and in sec. it restarts... Is it necessary to reinstall XP, and what are the things i will have to do again after reinstallation to be as it was prior when it worked ? Is there some easier way to boot XP with another Motherboard ? Aha...and when to use jellybean ? --------------030007080108020604080106 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="comitter.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="comitter.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Majki Majk n:;Majki Majk adr;dom:;;;Zagreb email;internet:comitter@europe.com tel;cell:091/504-5311 note;quoted-printable:Cijenjena ponuda na e-mail kontakt!=0D=0A= Ozbiljne ponude molim!=0D=0A= Mo=C5=BEe i sms-om! x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------030007080108020604080106-- Tag: xp repair Tag: 815374
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    - Delete programs in startup Hi,I have too many programs in my startup menu box,so it takes a while to download. I go to msconfig.exe then startup but I cant decipher the programs to delete,is it possible to delete them all and reload startup with windows essentials if so how.cheers Tag: xp repair Tag: 815368
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    - Icon jumps to other side of screen at every start up? I have 4 icons on left side of screen. when I restart computer the recycle bin icon is always on the right side of screen. I rearrange it, right click and select save desktop icon layout to no avail. this started about one week ago and do not know what else to try. thanks for any help Tag: xp repair Tag: 815367
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    - MMC and other system utilities not starting without any error mess I have a fully patched XP Pro SP3 laptop where no MMC snap-in (or mmc.exe itself) is starting and also things like ntbackup.exe and msinfo32.exe are not starting. They give _no error messages_, nothing just happens when clicking things under for example Control Panel/Administrative Tools (actually the Finnish equivalents, this is a Finnish language Windows) or trying to start things from the console. There are probably others in addition to mmc, ntbackup and msinfo32 that are not launching, but basically this problem seems to be limited to Windows components and not applications. Some things that do work are IE7 and Windows Explorer. Things ruled out thus far are simple drive errors and installed AV. I wish I knew what happened to the machine just before it started acting up like this, but reports from the user indicate that the latest patches are probably the only things installed on it recently. Can't look at any logs since Event Viewer is part of the problem. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815364
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    - My xp keeps restarting i turn on my pc and it load to the desktop on the desktop it has somrthing about a virus and needed to update virus scan but then before i can do anything like in matter of 5 to 15 seconds it restarts and it wont let me do anything? please someone help me i think there might be a virus or something on my other computer? Tag: xp repair Tag: 815356
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    - Now that SP3 is installed, what can I delete? I'm running XP Home Edition, upgraded to that from an OEM copy of ME. I've heard that if I create a slipstreamed SP3 XP installation CD, I won't have such folders as: C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$ and: C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ so can they be deleted now? Also, the C:\WINDOWS\ie7 seems kind of pointless to keep around at this juncture. Can any of these be deleted? Are there any others I don't need? They take up a lot of space AND they slow down defrags and AV scans. TIA -- John Corliss Tag: xp repair Tag: 815354
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    - Blank screen I have a computer with WindowsXP SP2 on it and the splash screen will come up but then after that it goes to a blank screen. The only thing that will show up is the mouse cursor. I've tried safe mode, safe mode with command prompt and also VGA mode, and they all produce the same reslult, a blank screen. Like I said the Windows XP splash screen works fine so I don't believe it is a video card or monitor problem. I went to Microsofts web site and found this hotfix for the problem "WindowsXP-KB948277-X86-ENU.EXE". So I downloaded it with another PC since I can't see anything on the screen with the bad PC. They give you no instructions on Microsofts web site on how to apply the fix. So my question is how do I execute the EXE. since all I have is a blank screen? Tag: xp repair Tag: 815352
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    - IE7 not connecting Hi, I installed IE8 Beta, played around with it for few days then uninstalled it. Now it seems something in the TCPIP level seems broken. I can ping and tracert out to any site, but IE7 will not work (nor will Firefox). I've tried: netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt , unchecking TCPIP at the network config window, uninstalled IE7, same problem with IE6 - reinstalled IE7 still not - I'm getting the page can not display error. any thought, leads? thanks for your help -- ---------------------------------- The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815347
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    - code 10 & nvidia video card I'm running XP Pro. In Device Manager, I'm getting a yellow exclamation point next to the display adapter. It's accompanied by a plain "code 10" error message and an error message stating that the device is not using resources because it has a problem. I've already updated the bios, chipset, and video driver. Also, I've reseated the video card. No apparent IRQ conflicts. Please help! Tag: xp repair Tag: 815340
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    - xp home always rebooting I have an e-machine that is always rebooting to the boot option screen, the one you get when you press F8. It time out and then reboots again and again. I would like to do a repair to not lose data, but this computer came with a restore CD. I tried to load it on to another Hard Drive, but ghost could not find the restore file on it, which would be correct. I do have a copy of XP Pro, but I don't know if this will repair my XP Home. Any Ideas? Thanks Tag: xp repair Tag: 815339
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    - Windows XP would not start This morning, I turned on my computer, the eMachine logo appeared and stays... Nothing will move it. I hit the F8 in an attempt to switch to a Safe mode or something. No luck. Turned computer off (pushing the button for 10 sec), then turned it on. Again, the same logo appeared and Windows would not load. Last night, everything appeared normal when I turned computer off. What happened? How can I fix this problem and restart my computer. Any suggestion is appreciated. -- Ilya Zeldes Fort Myers, Florida Tag: xp repair Tag: 815337
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    - XP Pro. SP2's explorer.exe crashing a lot and randomly. Ever since 7/9/2008 according Windows' event logs, I noticed my explorer.exe would crash randomly and I can't figure out what is causing it and why. I tried removing, disabling, downgrading, etc. programs/updates (e.g., SpyBot v1.6.0, KB951748 (DNS), Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2008 (KB890830) [don't think it removed anything], uninstalling Sun Java(TM) 6 Update 6 to install update #7, K-Lite Codec Full Pack v4.00, and TrueCrypt v6.0 portable. These were the products that I recall installing since then. I might have more and need to dig and think more. I already ran full scans with the latest definitions from Norton AntiVirus, SpyBot, SuperAntiSpyware, Ad-Aware SE Perosonal, and a-squared Free. I am not a programmer/developer so I am hoping my memory dumps and logs would help. I did notice it can take hours for the crashes to occur. When the firs tone strike, then explorer.exe will crash randomly like crazy. Even Start Menu will start going nuts. I have to reboot to keep it stable for a few hours. I doubt it is temperature related because my other software and hardware don't crash. Here are the first two event log crashes: Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 7/9/2008 Time: 8:11:36 AM User: N/A Description: Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.3156, faulting module comctl32.dll, version 6.0.2900.2982, fault address 0x0002918d. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 65 78 70 ure exp 0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex 0020: 65 20 36 2e 30 2e 32 39 e 6.0.29 0028: 30 30 2e 33 31 35 36 20 00.3156 0030: 69 6e 20 63 6f 6d 63 74 in comct 0038: 6c 33 32 2e 64 6c 6c 20 l32.dll 0040: 36 2e 30 2e 32 39 30 30 6.0.2900 0048: 2e 32 39 38 32 20 61 74 .2982 at 0050: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 offset 0058: 30 30 30 32 39 31 38 64 0002918d 0060: 0d 0a .. Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: (100) Event ID: 1000 Date: 7/9/2008 Time: 8:11:40 AM User: N/A Description: Faulting application drwtsn32.exe, version 5.1.2600.0, faulting module dbghelp.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x0001295d. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 64 72 77 ure drw 0018: 74 73 6e 33 32 2e 65 78 tsn32.ex 0020: 65 20 35 2e 31 2e 32 36 e 5.1.26 0028: 30 30 2e 30 20 69 6e 20 00.0 in 0030: 64 62 67 68 65 6c 70 2e dbghelp. 0038: 64 6c 6c 20 35 2e 31 2e dll 5.1. 0040: 32 36 30 30 2e 32 31 38 2600.218 0048: 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 0 at off 0050: 73 65 74 20 30 30 30 31 set 0001 0058: 32 39 35 64 295d I also noticed explorer.exe doesn't return and Dr. Watson gets stuck and crashes too. I have to kill their processes to restart Explorer manually via Task Manager. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. :) -- Allah's Apostle said, "Once while a prophet amongst the prophets was taking a rest underneath a tree, an ant bit him. He, therefore, ordered that his luggage be taken away from underneath that tree and then ordered that the dwelling place of the ants should be set on fire. Allah sent him a revelation: 'Wouldn't it have been sufficient to burn a single ant (that bit you)?'" --Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 54, Number 536 /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: philpi@earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant@zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815335
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    - Windows Start Up When I turn on my computer from it's off state I'm seeing a message about a hardware or software change. No hardware changes were made. Tried to start in safe mode and got this list, all the drivers, multi(0)disk(0)partition(1)Windows\system....... Windows will not start. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815330
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    - windows xp x64 drivers My widows xp x64 can't recognize my USB card reader and my digital camera Also my monitor has built in SD card reader and it connects to PC via USB the card reader part of the monitor does not work either It looks like the windows xp x64 can't recognize any USB mass storage device Can someone help with this ? Thanks Tag: xp repair Tag: 815323
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    - WinXP very slow to start, and very very slow starting up programs I just installed WinXP on a P4 computer (1MB RAM) that runs Win2000 with no problems. WinXP was running normally until I installed some drivers from the motherboard (ASUS P4PE) CD. After rebooting I discovered that 1) the boot up takes 3+ minutes, and when WinXP finally starts up anytime I click on a program to start it, not only does it take about 3 minutes to start a simple program, but during that time I loose the use of the mouse. That is, the mouse cursor will show on a spot and if I move it, after 15-30 seconds the cursor will pop up in another location, and so on. I've looked at the task manager and when this slowdown is occuring (and it takes minutes to get the task manager to open up) there is no sign of anything hogging the cpu power...the system idle process is usually at 95-98% and whatever process I've tried to start is only using 2-5%, even though it will take 3 minutes to start up it's program. Given what I've noted, where would I look to find out what is causing this slowdown? I've turned off some services, such as Messenger, and some other non essential ones, and I've looked at msconfig but I don't see anything unusual there (although I'm not as familiar with XP processes as I am with Win2000 ones). But there's nothing hogging the processor, so how else could this slowdown be occuring. Any suggestions would be very helpful. John Tag: xp repair Tag: 815310
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    - Issues I've just recently performed a system recovery, using a recovery disk that came with this computer, reverting from XP Pro back to XP Media Edition 2005. Now everytime I try to encrypt a file on my system I get an "access denied" error, even though I'm on the main user account. I've been to Microsoft's help center and they mention this, but didn't provide a solution. Also, I currently have no Standby or Hibernate option when I go to shut it down. Curious to know what would be causing these issues, whether I have something disabled which inturn is keeping them from functioning properly, or if I have to d/l a component thats required for them to work. Any help would be apppreciated, thanks. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815306
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    - movie maker can I put movie maker on my external hard drive? Is movie maker on the windows XP CD? -- Jspeedo Tag: xp repair Tag: 815302
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    - AntiVirXP08 My machine is infected with AntiVirXP08. McAfee Antivirus was unable to remove it. I've read that this virus can make it impossible to install other virus removal tools. It appears that the virus also deleted all my system restore points. However, I have some system state backups made using the MS Backup Utility on an external hard drive. The MS Win XP guidebook describes it as making "copies of your registry hives". What are registry hives? Would it be reasonable to try to restore a recent system state backup using the backup utility under these circumstances? What other parts of the system might need to be restored separately? (MSCONFIG/Startup, etc.). How is the system state backup different from creating a restore point? I appreciate all guidance and references to explanatory material. Bobbi Tag: xp repair Tag: 815300
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    - KB951748 - ZA fix didn't work As suggested, I downloaded and installed the revised version of Zone Alarm and allowed MS to reinstall this KB. Result: Internet access blocked again! I have now stopped all automatic updates and will screen for this diabolical program and delete it if it shows up again. MS created this problem. MS should fix it. Jim. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815299
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    - Microsoft Fax Running at Startup Something called Microsoft Fax appears to be running at startup and continues searching for something. I don't have a phone line hooked up for fax and so I don't want this running as it seems to periodically interfer with startup. I can't seem to find any program called Microsoft Fax though to shut it down or disable it. I am running Windows XP with SP2. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815290
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    - total nightmare and need help Hi everyone, After my unlce told me he thought he had a virus I told him to bring the computer over, He has Windows XP on a Dell Computer and he had no password setup for his account, There are other accounts and all are administor priveleged account but I think only one had a password. I found it had that Vista Antivirus fake stupid program and I followed the manual removal instructions at http://www.enigmasoftware.com/support/vistaantivirus2008-removal/ and it went away fine but then after a couple reboots and never giving it a password, it is not showing me the Windows is Not Activated Window at the bottom of the login screen and all accounts are asking for a password. I have tried rebooting to safe mode and logging on using the administrator account but that is also asking for a password that was never set by anyone. :( Is there anything besides a re-install that will help me get back in to actually set a password now? I hope? -- James M Driscoll Jr Spaceman Tag: xp repair Tag: 815288
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    - Desk top folder question There are a couple of desk top folders Windows XP created and they are now in the Unused desk top folder. Internet Explorer.{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} Microsoft Outlook.{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} These folders appear as a file folder icon. The Outlook folder seems to do nothing. I have MS Outlook installed but I do not use it. I use OE. The folder is empty and doesn't launch anything. There used to be an Outlook icon, but Windows mysteriously deleted it during a recent unsolicited desk top clean up. There is still a shortcut to Outlook via the start button. The IE folder appears empty, but it launches IE. I have a separate icon elsewhere to launch IE, although I use Firefox as a web browser. Question: why were these created and can I delete them without corrupting anything. I know icons are usually just pointers that can be deleted. But Windows created these two folders, so I want to know for sure if I can get rid of them for should I just leave them ignored. I am running Windows XP SP3. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815284
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    - Xp start menu lag I am running XP Pro SP2 on Intel C2D8400,Msi P35 mobo,2Gb ddr2,NVidia 9600GT and Seagate 500Gb Hdd. Often, but not always, when I try to open up the [All Programs] list in the start menu, it can take up to 10 to 20 sec before it will fill in the list of programs. Everything else seems to run just fine. I've already check the obvious (adware, etc). Adding more RAM did nothing to speed this up. It started only recently when I added 500 or more icons in my start menu with the installation of a lot of yahoo mini games for my kids. It goes back to normal if I deleted all the shortcut in the start menu. but how am my kids going to play the games just without the shortcut. It will turn worse once I exit the game and try to access the start menu again, it will pause or hang for 60 or more sec before I can see or access the icons in the start menu again. Need help please. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815280
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    - TAKING A LONG TIME TO START UP Hi having problem to boot up once it does no error message it works fine once booted up but it take a long time thank you if you can help Tag: xp repair Tag: 815279
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    - "Open", "Save" or "Save As" dialog box default settings I use WIN XP Pro and have a question about an annoyance in the â??open â??, â??Saveâ??, or â??Save Asâ?? dialog box that appears with just all programs and Internet explorer. It seems the â??open â??, â??Saveâ??, or â??Save Asâ?? dialog box defaults to the â??Listâ?? view to show files. I all ways have to change to the â??Detailsâ?? view each time I use the â??openâ?? selection. A real time waster when you open many files. Is there any way to set the default value to open to the â??Detailsâ?? view? I have searched and been unable to find any settings. I may not be asking the right question, Tweak UI or Power Toys did not seem to mention. I am sure there is probably a registry settings. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Tag: xp repair Tag: 815277
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    - Java In the Control Panel the Java applications 'about' info is: Standard Edition 6, Version 6 Update 5 (build 1.6.0_05-b13). I also have the following Java in my add/remove programs: J2SE Java runtime environment 5.0 update 9 Java(tm) 6 update 3 Java(tm) 6 update 3 Java(tm) 6 update 5 Are the Java 6 updates accumulative and can any of the above in the add/remove programs be deleted without affecting the Java application? TIA.... G Tag: xp repair Tag: 815268
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    - Making a change in account program access I am rebuilding my computer after a crash and an OS reinstall (Windows XP Home). I set up two accounts: one for me, and one for my wife, both with "Administrator Privileges". After installing a new program today ("MyAlert" - a "reminder" program), it shows up both on my "account" and on her "account". How can I eliminate it from operating on her account? Thanks in advance. Tag: xp repair Tag: 815267
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    - Aquarium Screensaver I used to have an Aquarium Screensaver on my pc but now it's no longer in my drop down menu. I've tried to find it on the MS WinXP download site, to no avail. Can anyone please tell me how I might download it again? Brian Tag: xp repair Tag: 815246

in win xp i have on my hp laptop i was installing a free lavasoft
product to remove spyware and computer froze and upon re starting only
to get hp start up screen and then a black
screen unable to get into safe mode but able to get into Xp
installation disc to do the repair routine to completion at reboot it
only returns to black screen no cursor and no windows logo i am a novice
at this but now what can I do none f the F8 functions are assesable with
most options to start loadin and stop 1/4 way
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