Gerry
Mon May 12 09:32:03 PDT 2008
James
Path too long error message when exceeding MAX_PATH
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177665
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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James wrote:
> Hi Gerry,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunatly i can`t get to the start menu or
> anything on the desktop. Although i can login it comes up with an
> error regarding my profile and then won`t show anything except a
> black screen. I`ve tried ctrl+alt+del to get the task manager up but
> this comes up with a task manager error.
>
> I have now put the drive on as a slave and i can see all the files
> but when i try and copy a file it says "Path is too long" any ideas
> on this one?
>
> Cheers for the help
>
> James
>
> "Gerry" wrote:
>
>> Can you please post a copy of the Error Report from Event Viewer?
>>
>> You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
>> Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.
>>
>> A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and
>> double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which
>> appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close
>> Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the
>> body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting
>> from Event Viewer.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> James wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a serious problem with my laptop. Recently it has become
>>> really slow and the other day it will not show my profile. It boots
>>> up and lets me logon but it then comes up with a svchost.exe errpr
>>> and an explorer.exe error. I have tried to repair windows with my
>>> installation disk but the windows installation does not appear in
>>> the list and it only allows me to install a new copy of xp.
>>>
>>> I have also tried to expand the svchost.ex off the installation disk
>>> to C:\windows\system32 folder but it says Access Is Denied. I have
>>> tried to also open the document and settings folder but it says
>>> Access is denied.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas on how i can solve this.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> James