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    - Auto Send Hello, I have a file that I should be able to access every some days on another computer, how can I access it (like getting it sent to me or something) without using those remote adminsrating programs?? The whole process should be done automatically without any windows or pop ups... How could that be achieved? Thanks Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860590
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    - Booting Vista on Different PC Computers I install Vista Ultimate on one PC. It is an HP Pavilion a1700n. I remove the 40 GB IDE HD from the HP PC and put it into a Compaq EVO 510 PC. Result: Vista does not boot. I have researched the subject but still have not found a solution. The microsoft vista deployment step by step seems awfully complex. Has anyone found a simple way to solve this problem? I have also tried the reverse (from compaq to HP PC): Same result! With XP I could boot into safe mode or just boot normally and XP would detect and install the new hardware it finds. Somtimes I would need to install XP from CD on the target PC to copy the boot.ini and hall.dll files to a usb flash drive. Then I would restore the image of XP on the target PC. I would boot into recovery console and copy the files form the flash drive to the target PC (boot.ini to C:\ and hal.dll to C:\windows\system32). Most times I could then boot the target PC normally or in safe mode. However, with Vista I am stymied! Any practical solution? Chris http://drpcdr.ca Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860587
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    - RAID1 question XP-Pro OS -- am upgrading my Motherboard to one that has hardware RAID Asus P5LD2 -- so was thinking about setting up a RAID1 mirror disk situation -- to be protected in case of disk crash. From posts on this board gather XP will see as one disk and can partition as I want. Question is -- do I still need to have a regular backup system -- with a third disk -- and what are the advantages/disadvantages of doing what I am planning. Note system is used in a lab/office environment. Thanks. Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860577
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    - Missing butons in toolbar My toolbar dont display butons for the runing (open) programs. like that when I minimize a program just loose it and to maximaze it I have to go to task manager (CTR+ALT+DEL) . Can someone help me to get the runing windows on toolbar? Thanks in advance. Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860572
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    - Slow Computer Response: I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP, SP2 with AVG, A-Squared, Spybot and Comodo with DSL connection. I haven't done anything or added anything but today when I logged on the computer it was unusually slow even with only (1) program running. I thought perhaps I might have picked up a virus or malware so I ran Spybot and it came out clean. I then checked Microsoft Updates to see if any new updates were there but it just seemed to hang up and did nothing although the Task Manager said it was running. I then started to run AVG and checked to see if were any updates but it failed each time I tried to update it. I thought maybe they have a newer version so I deleted it from my Add/Remove program but then I couldn't download it from the site! The pages took forever and I kept getting errors on each page which took forever to load. I realized I was making things worst so I did a System Restore but when it came back up it gave me a message that the AVG Kernal could not run although it shows AVG in the Add/Remove programs as well as the desktop shortcut. Great, so now what am I suppose to do? The computer still runs as slow as a snail and I can't update AVG or even re-install it it seems. I'm now running A-Squared which I should have done in the first place. I would appreciate any help or suggstions to return my computer back to normal. I just don't get it though, when I turned it off yesterday all was fine and now this. ughhhhh Robert Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860570
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    - Welcome Screen Pictures Won't Change The Welcome Screen Pictures (Icons) are all set to Chess for every user. When I go into User Accounts in the Control Panel. I can change them there to whatever I want and they change within the control panel and also change at the top of the start menu. However, they do NOT change on the Welcome Screen and all stay as "chess". I have tried creating new users and they same issue occurs with them. They become "chess" on the Welcome Screen but are whatever else I chose within the user. So, it appears as though a registry setting or file(s) have been deleted, modified or changed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860569
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    - Computer switches off without warning. Hi. Recently my computer has been switching off ( re booting ) whilst in use. It can happen seemingly anytime and for no apparent reason or prompting. Any help in solving this would be greatly appreciated. Babylon Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860568
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    - Windows XP upgrade I have a laptop with Windows Vista Home Edition - is it possible to do an "upgrade" to Windows XP Pro over the Vista install? I want to know before I purchase the OS and MS will not allow questions prior to purchase. Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860565
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    - Windows open up minimized Suddenly all my windows open minimized, not full screened. I have tried pulling the window to full screen using the lower right hand corner, have clicked on the maximize button and then closed the windew so the size would be remembered, with no results. Is there a place I can go to check mark this option to open all windows maximized? Somehow I must have changed this setting. Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860564
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    - Booting problems Hi there can anyone please help? I am currently building my own desktop pc. The problem is when my pc boots up nothing seems to appear on my moniter.I have tried it on my vga port on my motherboard and my graphics card.The fans are spinning and power is going into it but no display on my moniter.I have even trid it on seperate moniters can anyone please help? Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860556
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    - Do you understand .exe file format? I have down loaded two versions of tidy.exe (they are from different sites) One is about 300K and the other is about 100K long. The program has the option of asking for the version. They each reply the same version! I looked with notebook and each start out with about 10 lines of gibberish. Then the smaller one has about 10 blank lines followed by many gibberish lines. The larger one has about 30 blank lines followed by many gibberish lines. They appear to run the same. Can you explain what might cause the difference in the files? Thanks in advance Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860555
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    - files safe to delete..help please Hello Group Sorry if this is a repeat, but unable to prove it. On "cleaning out" my laptop of unwanted programs/files etc. I discovered over 100 very similar folders in "C:\windows" folder which name begins and ends with the dollar sign. An example is "$uninstallKBxxxxxx$" The folders contents mostly contain 3 or 4 files as follows: a) spuninst... program b) spuninst... info file. c) spuninst.....text file d) updspapi.dll TIA Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860553
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    - Windows (XP) explorer not showing picture thumbnails Hope someone can help please? When I open windows explorer and go to a folder with my pictures in it the thumbnail just shows placeholder icons, how do I get the thumbnails to show them as pictures again? Thanks Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860551
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    - StacSysTray Hello, For the past three or four days I have the following window appear at bootup. Component "actskn.ocx" or one of it'd dependencies not correctly Registered. A file is missing or invalid. I get rid of the window by pressing the X but at every bootup it appears again. Win XP Home SE Mem 1Gig HD 200 Gig. Thank you in advance for any help. Robert Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860538
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    - Activex Control Won't Run Hello I am trying to update a laptop which has windows xp pro sp1 installed. I cannot run windows update because i get the error message "Due to the security settings on this machine activex will not run" i have gone into internet explorer 6.1 and set all the security settings to low and enabled all of the settings regarding activex controls. I still get the error. what do i do now? also, i tried downloading service pack 2 and installing it manually, and i keep getting the error "Cannot find the specified file" unfortunately, it does not tell you what the specified file is. HELP! I am stuck. Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860537
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    - System Information (Msinfo32.exe) Tool Hi all, in the Startup Programs, I have around 600 files, .inf .cpx .dll .cpl .tmp .ocx .nls .exe .odb .oca .msc .com .txt that are not present in regedit.... RUN. How can I do for removing them? thanks Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860525
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    - File Type Association Problem I was testing a trial version of Nero and answered the question about opening certain filetypes with a yes. This associated quite a few file types to Nero. Is there a way to reset all filetype to the XP defaults? Norm -- nwc Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860521
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    - pages are not opening hi I am using HP updated lately. I think the SP2 is what I on now. After the recent updation, I am having trouble opening orkut. The log in page is opening. When I provide username and password, then the page status shows waiting for img3.orkut.com..... the page never loads.. I am using Windows Live OneCare as well. pls advice. rgds, Justin Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860519
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    - sharing two network card Hi, I have ADSL connection and wireless as well(from different internet provider), It looks like only one connection is utilized.For example, when I disabled wireless, msn messenger goes offline and later reconnected through ADSL. How to share both connections? Thanks wu Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860516
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    - virprotect Can anyone please advise me of an idiot proof method of removing virprotect from my pc. It is driving me insane!! Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860515
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    - System 'Freeze' Problem I have Windows XP Pro installed. For no apparent reason my system keeps on 'freezing' (?). I consequently have to re-boot manually in order to unblock it. Lately, this has been happening rather often and it's getting rather uncomfortable to work with. I've checked program and system events and there aren't any apparent errors. I've also run my anti-virus (Norton) and all sorts of 'spybot' detecting programs, but have not found any problems. My 2 separate hard disks seem to be operating correctly and have run on both a checkdisk and defrag without getting important feedbacks. Is there anything else I can do ? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- bd Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860513
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    - PORTABLE HARD DRIVE - READ ONLY Help please I have a newly reformatted 120gb Hard Drive which will allow READ ONLY access to files. Does anyone know how I can solve this please? Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860511
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    - What is CD2 when winXP call this cd ??? HPyesterday for the first time , appare on my portable nootebook HP witn winXP professional with winXP this notice: there are file bad and please insert the original cd of windows XP the CD2 . but when i buy my portble pc i havenâ??t NO cd of windows XP !!! i try to insert the 2 cd that i have create when i buy mi pc ...but it say that is not the correct cd ! what is the solution?? help me .... Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860510
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    - ERROR visual C++ runime ?? I have an HP notebbok with SONIC digital media home ( plus v7 ) today when i close the programm say this errore on screen: MEDIAHUB.EXE ERROR Istruction 0x0036ade0 at memory 0x0025f5d0 , memory not â??writtenâ?? and an other windows that say: istruction at 0x00000001 at memory 0x000000001 , memory not â??readâ?? and a other windows that say: MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ RUNTIME LIBRARY ...\Sonic shared\Sonic central\Main\mediahub.exe R6025 - pure virtual funcion call what is this error ?and what i try to eliminate this error ? help me... Thanks in advance... OEM version... this error when i open the programm and select an option on MENU ! Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860509
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    - Opening My Computer Slow I have one computer/user at an account that has an issue with MyComputer opening VERY slow. It is as though it is looking for something on the network and having no luck finding it. However, there are no apparent mapped drives that can not be resolved or other such things. The system is otherwise clean and has been checked for all manner of malware. Where in the registry or in the user profile would I look to make sure there are no "network places" it is trying to resolve and can't? Thanks for any suggestions. Bob Showalter, Packer International Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860504
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    - Printing issue. Hi All, When I give print to a shared printer (HP LJ 1022) which is installed on a windows 2000 server from my win xp sp2 system I get a dialog box which reads 'Windows explorer has encountered an error". In the event viewer the details shown are as follows: 'Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module sr32.dll, version 6.0.909.0, fault address 0x000287de.' Please note that this issue is occuring in two machines. Other machines on the network with win xp sp2 are able to print with no issues. Can anyone guide me on this please? Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860489
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    - Machine slows to crawl, no other program running Hello, I ran sypbot and ad aware and have Sophos antivirus running all the time. Something has been boggin my system down later, so I have to wait for every little task. I have a Dell D800 laptop with 2 gigs of ram. When no progrms are running, in the performance dialoge, the pages/sec is completely maxed out TEh cpu is running about 70% and the average cue length is about 60 percent. I have 14 items in my system tray, sophos anti virus, spybot, smart sync for backups, hotsync for palm, hot folders, which gives recent folders, ad aware service, the rest are sound, disconnect device, windows stuff. 49 processes are running. SavService a sophos part is using significant parts of cpu, 40, 50, .... But I need it. If I restart the computer runs great. Is my computer hijacked? Is something running I can't find? How do I stop this? Thanks Jimk Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860466
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    - Desktop icons have disappeared Hello After a hitch trying to install and configure a software, nearly all my non system desktop icons have disappeared. They are still present in C:\Documents and Settings\Dave Neve\Bureau What could be stopping them from displaying please? I've tried all the normal display things but nothing has helped so far. Regards Dave Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860462
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    - Rearranging Programs list Executed Start / Programs and got a list that showed all programs. I was attempting to rearrange these programs alphabetically and accidently moved it over to my desktop. Now the program folder is showing on my desktop and I don't know how to get it to show back up when i click Start / Programs. I have had this happen once before and I can't remember how I solved it. Thanks Tom -- HP 7975 Intel Pentuim 4 CPU 2.00 GHz CPU speed 1992 MHz RAM 1GB Microsoft Windows XP Home SP 2 I.E 6 All Microsoft updates applied. Outlook 2003 Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860449
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    - WinXP Sp3 Hello Group I would like to check that indeed Microsoft created the SP3 version of the WinXP but was cancelled or possibly shelved to give way to Vista. Some Warez site showed some specimens for it but . Supposing the upgrade is really available does it improve the WinXP performance dramatically? Does it have any peculiarity which might make Vista redundant confirming the reason that it was never distributed? TIA Roy Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860448
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    - folder wont delete....how delete? I have a folder on my desktop. Whenever I try to delete it I get the error message: "Cannot Delete...Cannot find the specified file" Im not sure how the folder got on my desktop and I can change the name of the folder but not delete it. Any hints on how to delete the folder? thanks! Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860442
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    - I have huge number of .txt (text) files 7/Jan/2008 0:31 I have huge number of .txt (text) files . They are bogging down both my computer and me, so I want to get rid of them. Since I am a 'pack rat' I want to save them: 1. Go to My Documents; 2. select about 15 text files; 3. right click on one of them; 4. choose 'send to'; 5. choose CD-RW Drive (E) 6. insert disc into Drive E; and 6. delete the files if necessary. Do I have this correct? Thank you, Barry Karas PS I have Windows XP with SP2. Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860441
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    - "Cannot find script file c:\MS32DLL.dll.vbs" Hi All, "Cannot find script file c:\MS32DLL.dll.vbs" Getting this error while opening the C:drive of my local machine having OS -windows XP. Any suggestions... Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860433
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    - Boot as 2nd drive = boots OK: as only drive it fails. Neighbor had pc not booting. I have same model so put his drive in my PC to save his pictures/music etc in case needed to reinstall XP. When I put the drive in my Pc, ( cable select - his was second connection on primary IDE cable) I booted my drive and it announced - "need to scan secondary drive - was shutdown improperly" , so I let it scan/fix his drive and I could see his files in XP - copied to CD - all set. Rebooted and ON MY PC I have had 2 boot options on MY primary drive, ( I often have several drives in there) so I elected to now boot his ( as secondary drive). His drive booted up - looked good. I bought back to his house ( thinking I was done) and it hangs (his only disk drive). It STARTS to boot and looks good .... just before it would be at the user profile screen ( 2 users) it hangs at a "XP Home Edition" screen. I removed what I could from his box in case something hanging it, but same thing, so I brought it back to my house. Put back in as secondary drive - booted it -- OK. HOWEVER, if I make it the ONLY drive in my PC ( as with his) using primary IDE cable - master connector , it hangs on my PC too - same spot. I then had it as ONLY drive on my pc - using primary IDE cable - slave connector - same thing. so , ( FINALLY !) to my question: What is different OS-wise when it is hooked up as the secondary drive ? What is happening JUST before the user names appear on-screen. Also .. more info ... in no case on either Pc using either connector can I get Safe Mode ( or any other F8 option) to work when I boot that drive.IT will let me SELECT any of the F8 options ( Command Prompt, Safe Mode , debugging etc), but it does the same things onscreen, hangs at same spot. I expected it to get me to a C:\ prompt - WHY is it getting me to the XP user profile screen ??? AND when after hanging I do a hard power-off, it never notices that I powered it off. I EXPECTED it to announce- shutdown improperly - need to scan disk - it doesn't. Back in as second drive ( with another XP drive as primary) and still works fine. It's late so I'll sleep on this one for now. Any thoughts ? Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860426
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    - Please Wait...XP Blue Screen on Boot! Hello All, When ever I switch on or reboot my DELL D620 laptop, I see a windows XP Prof blue screen with message "Please Wait" and white dots progressing for few minutes and then it automatically proceed to login screen. I'm not sure what caused this issue. Can any help me resolve this issue? Thanks, Channa Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860424
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    - Software installation troubleshooting issue Attempting to install Microsoft Accounting Express 2008. Download proceeded without incident. Installation proceed for a few minutes only to generate the message: Setup failed to install MOA2008. See C:\ Documents & Settings\Maurice\ Local Settings\ Temp\ Mbsetuptmp137.log Regrettably, I can only navigate to the 'Maurice' Folder as Local settings folder is not seen and I am logged on as Administrator. Four install attempts have been made only leading to the same outcome. This is a Windows XP Pro machine with all of the service packs and updates Pentium IV 1.8 Ghz processor with 1Gb memory. I have tried the search function which did not locate the log file. Guidance sought Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860410
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    - Standby Fails Recently, whenever I put my WinXP Home machine into standby, it always awakens a few moments after entering standby. Something must have changed. Any suggestions? -- PT Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860407
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    - svchost problems I have been having problem with my system where it would run fine for a while than seem to freeze. I was able to find out that in the task manager sorted by CPU that svchost.exe would be at the top of list using about 6 megs of memory. I found that if I ended that process the system would work fine. I finally felt that Norton Virus program might be the problem (no way to tell what was using the svchost.exe process) and uninstalled both the Virus and Live Update programs. Now the system works fine and svchost.exe is not there. So I assume that this was the problem. I have had problems with Norton causing problems with other machines at work so I will not be using this program again. I think I will probably be using either Trendview or McAfee - not sure which yet. My question is whether there is a better way to find out what program an svchost.exe is connected to? At the moment I have 10 of them running and no way to know if these are legitimate or not. Thanks, Tom Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860406
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    - Vista or XP on Eee? Hi, I'm just raising my voice here. I'm not a Vista fan, and plan to buy an Eee soon, so I'm wondering whether the new Eee will have XP on it (I actually read abt it recently on this site... i think its techqi.blogspot.com) but people have already hacked Vista on to Eee (just Google for it, I forgot... sry). Any thoughts? Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860391
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    - Logical Disk Manager (LDM) is not registered I cannot access the Disk Manager and get the following error message: "Logical Disk Manager (LDM) is not registered. LDM supports Windows 2000 or later. Check the operating system version on the computer named ..." As I am using Windows XP professional with all the service packs and critical updates that are current, this error message is a mystery, particularly since I have previously been able to use the Disk Manager. Can you assist me in tracing and correcting this problem please. ---Antonin Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860387
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    - MMC disabled: how do I get the registry right? I noticed early last year ago that MMC (Microsoft Management Console v5.1, the version that shipped with Windows xp) had stopped functioning. If it's opened the interface window is just empty, and the MMC folder under C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Application Data \Microsoft\MMC is blank too, same with the corresponding folder on my personal account (which also has some admin powers). I'm sure some registry keys have been erased too, no doubt by a virus - as I said this change happened quite a while ago and there's no sign of raging infection on the pc now. Still, I'm planning to do an overall reboot of windows in a few weeks, but before that I'd like to get the MMC in order again. The MMC files under System32 are intact: Directory C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 774,144 b mmc.exe 66,560 b mmcbase.dll 1,136,128 b mmcndmgr.dll 46,592 b mmcshext.dll but they don't get through. I'd appreciate any informed help with getting the registry settings right, and also with protecting against this stuff for the future (the security systems have proven effective for a long time, but seems they didn't notice this). I'm not a whix z when it comes to registry repairs but I do know how to import changed keys, back up reg settings and so on. Windows XP SP1a Protection: Norton System Works 2007 and Personal Firewall 2006, and HijackThis thanks! Stevie Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860377
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    - Unattended Installs Does anyone use this tool for Unattended deployment for Windows XP or Windows 2003 in their corporate environment? Is this allowed? I am concerned with anything nLite may add into the unattended media. Security risk? This is the best tool I have found that has the ease of bundling drivers for RAID cards and Security patches/Service Packs. This is mainly what I would use it for. We already have our own security templates and custom settings being applied via the WINNT.sif and script during post build. Thanks. Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860370
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    - Utility for re-sizing photos Trying to load up a digital picture frame with same size photos. Anybody recommend a good utility to re-size photos (mostly jpeg) ? Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860366
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    - delete keyboard layout? How can I delete a custom keyboard layout, created with MSKLC? Where is it located? The custom keyboard layout is damaged, I think by using a registry cleaner. I tried to install a new one, changing the layout number, but this did not work. So I want to delete the damaged custom keyboard. But how? Thanks in advance, Gerhard Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860364
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    - Re-installation of old version error My younger brother did something stupid with our PC and now it is a complete mess... We have a service pack 2 CD and XP cd as well (older version)... Originally, the PC has winxp but my brother installed the service pack... Now the PC has 2 OS..when you try to restart, you must select which one you want to run.(.the original XP or the service pack.) Because the PC is becoming so slow, I want to delete all of it's contents and re-install my original win XP CD..but the thing is, I am getting an error that says. "Setup cannot continue because the version of windows in your computer is newer than the version on the CD".. I want the older version in the CD so please help me how do I continue the installation and delete all files/contents on my PC.. Thanks Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860359
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    - From Windows 95 to Windows Vista SP1 RC1 - the Evolution of the Start Button The evolution (?) of the start button.... read my comments below this link! http://news.softpedia.com/news/From-Windows-95-to-Windows-Vista-SP1-RC1-0-The-Evolution-of-the-Start-Menu-Button-75318.shtml The vista start button stole its concept from other OS's like linux...(KDE)... but now the stupid round ORB (perl) of vista creates problem for support techs all over the world... just imagine this conversation: user = Hello I have a problem with my text editor... tech= Ok.. lets see if we can fix it.. press start then go to all programs ...then... user= wait wait wait.. .I dont see any start button! tech= is your computer turned on Sir? user= Of course its on you moron! tech= its on and you do not see a start button? Are you sure you are using Windows? Hmm are you using vista by any chance? user= Oh yeah this stupid new version of windows that sales man gave me .. who made this crap? Nothing works here! tech= ok they changed the start with the ORB, do you see it? user= what the heck is an orb Sir??? Tech= they also call it perl.. its a round thing with a flag on it! User= I dont see no perl and I dont see no flag! Tech= Well it supposed to be a flag.. thats how it started out but now its more like a squarish thing with 4 colors!!! AARRRGHHHHH!!!! Just put your mouse in the left bottom corner of the screen and press the left mouse button!! User= WHat are you yelling at you overgrown baboon?? This vista program is stupid!!!the startbutton is an orb a perl with a flag thats not a flag..... Tech.. = ok let me take some pills and I will guide you on how to change vista to the classic theme! argggg Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860358
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    - error code 0x80040017 hi, If anyone have solution for this issue in windows xp sp2 "a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license fot this computer error code 0x80040017" thanks Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860354
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    - My Computer folder When clicking on My Computer from the start menu, I only see the icons. The whole left side of the screen is missing (system tasks, Other Places and Details). How can I restore these items? Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860349
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    - AutoPlay Not Working Hi friends, I posted a message a few days ago about my computers CD/DVD AutoPlay not working at all. I "never" could fix it. BUT I installed Windows Media Player 11 last night and lo and behold my computers CD/DVD Auto Play started working! When I put a CD in either of my computers DVD/CD players/burners windows now gives me a pop up box and gives me choices of what I want to do. Including Nero 8.xx functions, ACDsee Pro 2 functions, Windows Media Player, etc etc. I am really happy about that.... That was an easy but completely unknown way to me way to fix it. Pete Carr Tag: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar Tag: 1860344

Hi Folks - I have just recently noticed that Windows Explorer has begun
crashing out when I right-click in the Start Bar. I am getting the "Windows
Explorer has experienced an error and must shut down" message. In Event
Viewer, this is the message with regards to the occurence:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.3156, faulting module
mfc71u.dll, version 7.10.3077.0, fault address 0x0008dc0a.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Garry Wakely

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Re: Windows Explorer Crashing on Right-Click within Start Bar by GarryWakely

GarryWakely
Mon Jan 07 09:55:02 PST 2008

Hi Wolf -

Nope.

> Do you happen to have Visual Studio installed?
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf
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