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    - How to beat activation OK first of I do own a legal version of XP Pro SP2 (Retail). The reason I'm trying to get round activation is in the past I have activated allot online, when I didn't know you could only do it a set number of times before you have to keep going through the hassle of ringing tech support and giving them my code number then they read me one back etc etc. Now I have read that if you back up 2 files called "wpa.bak" and "wpa.dbl" then once xp is reinstalled go into windows as normal and when asked for activation just reboot in safe mode and copy these 2 files back into the windows/system32 folder overwriting what might be there, as described here http://tinyurl.com/5zmqqy I have also read that if you format the hard drive (which I want to do) then this will not work, but (please bear with me) when I partitioned and formatted my drive I took an image of just that, so the image has nothing on it just the 2 bare partitions then I went about installing my copy of xp about 7 months ago, now I have gone back on that old image (of just bare partitions) and installed a fresh copy of XP and tried the trick as mentioned above with the 2 files but it failed to work, it said something like "I need to activate before logging in" so it didn't work for me. The only thing I can think of that is causing the problem is when setting up windows it asks/gives the computer a name I "think" the fresh install was a different name so I'm guessing this could be the problem but welcome any feedback from anyone. I have to stress I'm not trying to screw the activation process up or do anything illegal I just want to save the hassle as mentioned above, I have posted to a few groups that I think may be relevant so sorry if you see this elsewhere. Jim Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917938
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    - View->explorer Bar-> very sluggish Hello, WinXP sp2. In Explorer, the View->Explorer Bar... sub-menu takes over a minute to appear. What is causing the delay? How can I correct it? TIA for any suggestions... CB Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917935
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    - Windows performance monitor with multiple processors I configured Windows Performance Monitor (a.k.a. perfmon) to record data on the CPU utilization by software processes. The system has four processors. The "Process(_Total)\% Processor Time" performance counter includes all 4 processors. However, this appears to include the "time taken" by the "Idle" process. However, the "Processor(_Total)\% Idle Time" appears only to include one processor. Does this make any sense? Or is there some other data I should be collecting? Does the "Idle" process only show one processor (less than 100%) because only one processor is actually being utilized? Thanks, Alan Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917924
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    - Partial downloads I've been having problems downloading from commercial websites. When I click run, the download gets from anywhere between 0% and, say, 58%, or anything in between and then just stalls. I repeat, and the same thing happens. On rare occasions the download goes quickly and completely, sometimes after many, many attempts, and sometimes it just never downloads. I always allow full firewall access to the site from which I'm downloading. Any thoughts? -- Thanks, Alex Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917923
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    - Restore accidentially deleted data. Help!!! How can you restore accidentially deleted data? I deleted all My documents data and since it was large amount most of them did not reach the Recycle bin but were deleted permanently. Can I restore them? Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917922
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    - Restore point failure I'm afraid I may have hosed my system. Two days ago I removed sp3. This morning I went to a month old restore point called "pre sp3 and hit "restore" button. Now, it won't undo this operation. I'm tryin to get back to where I was this morning. Am I screwed?! TIA Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917916
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    - Help Needed - Cannot Update, Administrator Privileges Broken This all started when I noticed I was short a few windows updates on XP SP2. I decided I should run WU manually, and ran into a roadblock. It tries to install Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool, which fails every time. OK, simple enough. I went on the here and tried all the fixes: manually reinstalling WGA, running the tool the MS guy recommends, nothing works. My office's IT guy happened to be in, so I asked him. He says just download SP3 standalone, should be a workaround. Downloaded, tried to install. "You do not have permission to update Windows XP. Please contact your system administrator." ...What? I'm on an account in the administrators group for my system. I log off and into my computer's Admin account. "You do not have permission to update Windows XP. Please contact your system administrator." At this point, I'm stumped, IT guy is confused. Googled around, got a series of DLLs to re-initialize. They are: REGSVR32 wuapi.dll REGSVR32 wuaueng.dll REGSVR32 atl.dll REGSVR32 wucltui.dll REGSVR32 wups.dll Regsvr32 msxml3.dll Regsvr32 msxml2.dll Regsvr32 msxml.dll wuaueng.dll fails on a 0x80070514. As far as I can tell, there is nothing anywhere about that dll and that error code. System restore gives a permission error. I have checked , User Rights Assignment -> Take ownership of files or other objects and my Administrators group is a member. I've also tried adding the local Administrator account and my user account on the domain to the list, both of which had no effect on the problem. We have a small office, and our IT guy tells me he hasn't put any such restrictions in effect on any of the office computers. I would generally prefer not to use my holiday weekend to re-install Windows XP. I'm hoping someone has some idea of what the problem is. Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917910
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    - Partial Downloads Quite often, when I try to download a program from a commercial website, the dowload "runs" to anywhere between 0% and, say, 58%, or anything in between, and then just stalls. When I try again, the same thing happens, just stalling at some different %. I always allow full firewall access to the site to the site from which I'm trying to download. Sometimes the download goes quickly and smoothly, sometimes after many attempts, and sometimes never. Any thoughts? -- Thanks, Alex Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917907
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    - Storing enviornment variables Hi, I am running Windows XP. I was curious where I can store environment variables so that they can be stored the next time I boot my computer. Currentlyi, if I go to the Start Menu, click "Run" I can type set MYVAR=abcde echo %MYVAR% at the command line. However, when I close the command window and re- open it, the value of MYVAR is not stored. Where can I put this such that it is stored permanently? Thanks, - Dave Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917898
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    - TASKBAR & DESKTOP ICONS Hey all, all of a sudden every few hours, my Taskbar and the Desktop Icons disappear. The only thing I can see is my Background Color from HP. Is there some kind of setting or fix for this. The only way out is to control delete and restart. There are all the programs still running in the background but I do not see them. Thanks. Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917892
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    - Help with setting up a cd Dear All I appreciate this may not be the right newsgroup, but if anyone can either help or point me in the right direction, thank you. I have produced a CD with two items on it. The CD is set to autorun an html file. On the page that loads, there is a link to a website on the disk and another link to a program on the disk. but it wont work. I need to sort out the coding. The Website link works fine, but I cannot work out the code, to get the other link to work, it is an .exe file which will run a programme. I want this to work directly from the link. If anyone can assist in anayway or point me in the right direction, , I would be most grateful Barry Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917887
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    - How to use word as a message format along with a signature default When I use Outlook (2000), I'm not able to use an automated signature option when I have word as my outgoing mail to edit messages. Signature picker will not allow me to access it once I check the â??use MS Word to edit e-mail messagesâ?? box. I'm aware my default has a spell checker but that doesnâ??t allow me to use my autocorrect and short keys. Any ideas? Thanks, Eric Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917883
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    - mutiple windows activations from same location. I recently purchased several (35) pc's at a government surplus wharehouse. The machines all have valid win XP pro stickers. Since they are ex government pc's the harddrives have been stripped out of them. I was using the "new" pc to replace older ones here at work, and everything was fine till a week ago. I had reinstalled and activated about 16 machines with no problems, but now I am forced to call microsoft every time I activate one. They are valid codes, but I think microsoft has become suspicious of so many activations from the same IP. If the code is valid why should they care? Is there any way to prove to them that these are legit reinstalls without calling after every activation? Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917876
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    - Help !! XP Home administrator priviledge problem Hi. I wanted to read a region 1 dvd and had 2 changes left on my dvd region changing option dialog. One to change, one to change back I thought. Unfortunately when I went to change back, possibly because it was the last one, it said I needed administrator priviledges. Checking the user accounts I already had that. Nevertheless I booted into safe mode and selected an administrator account that wasn't there on normal boot up. But it still gave me the same error and wouldn't let me change it. I'm now stuck with a region 1 dvd drive ! Please help !! Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917864
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    - Firefox 3 and XP crashes this site Here is a problem that was posted over in Mozilla.Support.Firefox on June 24 entitled "FF3 Crashes on this Webpage." It has been thoroughly thrashed out there but with no solution. I bring it here seeking a solution because there seems to be a conflict between FF3 and Win XP. I am not the OP and I hope by bringing it here I have not offended this NG or Mozilla.Support.Firefox in any way. Briefly, the problem is that this site http://www.ramonadisposal.com causes a crash in Firefox and produces an error message saying,"Firefox has encountered a problem an needs to close...." The error signature is: AppName: firefox.exe Appversion 1.9.0.3071 ModName ntdll.dll ModVer 5.1.2600.5512 and seems to occur when Flash Player tries to show the large image in the upper right corner of the site. The small image on the left displays correctly. Now for the specifics. I have Firefox 3 installed on my Laptop and my desktop. Both are running XP Home SP3 and Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0. The laptop renders the site just fine but the desktop produces the error above. I installed Firefox on both machines from my administrative account (MAIN). If I go to this site while running as MAIN the error occurs. HOWEVER, if I switch to the guest account or any other account including the Administrator, the site renders with no problems. That seems very strange to me. What I have done: I have compared the Firefox prefs.js and user.js files on both machines and they are identical. I have used the FF Profile manager to run FF on the desktop with the laptop's profile but the problem still exits. I have deleted FF on the Desktop and installed it again. No luck Running FF in the safe mode (firefox.exe -safemode) doesn't solve the problem. Likewise, booting XP into safe mode doesn't either. Will someone please give me some help on getting FF to display this site correctly from my MAIN account on the desktop. Thank you very much. Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917860
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    - rebuild search index How do I rebuild the search index in Windows XP? I downloaded Windows Desktop Search, but searches are incomplete. I read that rebuilding the search index would eliminate this issue. I was unable to use the following instructions: --> Control Panel --> System and Maintenance --> Indexing Options --> Advanced --> Rebuild because I don't have a "System and Maintenance" category when I click on Control Panel -- and yes, I am looking at it in Category view, not Classic view. Where can I go to rebuild the search index? Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917859
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    - Decryption of files and folders Hi, My HDD partition is C: and D:. I have my data files in D:\. in order to protect my data i had applied encrytion to all the folders and files in this drive. recently my C: was formatted and Win XP was reinstalled...my D:\ was not formatted... Now i'm not able to open, view or worse even copy these files in D:\ i tried removing the encryption by it displays a error message that "error in applying attributes" Can any one please let me know on how to decrypt the files and folders in D:\ please help as i have valuable data in my D:| Also is there any way i can add new users certificate who can share and access the files and folders Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917853
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    - "smooth" scrolling Service pack 3-second problem. My "smooth" scrolling has gone. Scrolling now and deleting items in my mailbox produces a wave like movement down the screen. Previously the screen moved as one. I have checked everything I know with no results. Any suggestions?:mad: -- serenejim Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917838
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    - WinXP more expensive than Vista? I wanted to buy new OS - I found that WinXP is more expensive then Vista. I wish the same rules apply to my car... Zalek Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917831
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    - Decryption of files and folders my HDD partition is C: and D:. I have my data files in D:\. in order to protect my data i had applied encrytion to all the folders and files in this drive. recently my C: was formatted and Win XP was reinstalled...my D:\ was not formatted... Now i'm not able to open, view or worse even copy these files in D:\ i tried removing the encryption by it displays a error message that "error in applying attributes" Can any one please let me know on how to decrypt the files and folders in D:\ please help as i have valuable data in my D:| Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917829
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    - Internet Explorer Homepage problem Internet explorer does not load the homepage I have set it to. Instead when I double click the internet explorer icon, it loads a microsoft website. Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917824
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    - Improve XP font rendering? Hi, Fonts look much better in Vista than xp. Is there any way to change XP font rendering to make it look like Vista? (I'm thinking about some patch for cleartype). Thanks for any info. Keywords: cleartype, antialiasing, font, rendering, vista, xp. Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917823
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    - cmd.exe and unicode characters I opened a command window with cmd.exe /u but when I used dir to display the directory contents of a folder which has filenames with Russian characters each of these characters displayed as a question mark. Should it be possible to display Russian characters in a cmd window? If so, is there something wrong with my setup? I am using Win XP Pro, SP3. Grateful for assistance. Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917818
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    - Standby and service pack 3 I just installed service pack 3 on XP pro. It has disabled the standb option on the menu screen and the keyboard shortcuts. Does anyone kno how to reinstate this.:frown -- serenejim Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917815
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    - Disk defragmenter problem When i run disk defragmenter on my computer with windows xp sp2 home edition i get this message:Some files on this volume could not be defragmented.Please check the defragmentation report for the list of these files.There's no list of files in the report window. It has never came up before how do i resolve this issue? Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917812
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    - Missing Desktop, Icons, Start Menu Hi...I am in need of someone's help before my husband tosses th computer otta the window. This past week we decided enough is enoug and got high speed internet. My husband's computer is pretty old an has not had very many if any updates ran so he decided it was time. After doing updates and restarting the computer he was left staring a his wallpaper. Everything on the desktop was gone. He is working wit it now through task manager and has ran explorer.exe and found syste restore and backed it up to a few weeks ago. Still nothing. Th computer will not even let him get online so we cannot go to the site to download what I have found so far on the web. Any suggestions Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917807
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    - troubles installing silverlight I have tried to install silverlight time and time again with no avail here is the specifics of my computer. processor: AMD Atholon 1.2 GHZ processor with 384 KB in chip memory memory: 512 MG ram. windows XP professional Version 2002 Service pack 3 the problem is that silverlight comes up with "this processor is no supported". Is there something that can be done to get silverlight t install Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917806
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    - Graphics card/monitor issues Hello everyone, My family owns a business, and my mom is having trouble with one of th computers she uses to keep information on file. I backed up the file she wanted to keep, and decided it was time to reformat the PC. I reformatted the computer, and now I'm having a big problem with th graphics card and/or monitor. The monitor kept flashing black each tim I would try to do anything (click on a web link, close a window, etc.) and I decided to try to update the graphics card drivers. I restarte the computer, and I got the following error upon restarting: STOP: 0x100000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER_M I had set up a restore point before attemping to update the drive (thank goodness), and just restored it. Is the problem the graphics card? The whole reason I decided t reformat the computer to begin with is because my mom kept it in Saf Mode; she was having similar problems with the monitor and graphic card. I was hoping a reformat would eliminate any problems it had, bu apparently the problem still exists. Any help would be greatly appreciated Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917805
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    - How can you create an account for internet browsing only I would like to create create an account for internet browsing only and eventually word usage. No other programs should be started and no personal or system folders should be accessed (read/write). Any suggestions? Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917790
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    - Lunch the application after login page and before desktop!!! Hi, Is there any way to lunch the application after login page and before desktop? I know one way to add the entry in Runoncekey. I want this application to run every time the user log in. Couple of problem with Runoncekey.... 1. This key is meant to use just for one time application 2. User can use cntr+alt+del and cancel the application. I want this application to stay there till user hits "OK" and then show the desktop. There shouldn't be another way for him to skip this application. Can anybody help? Thanks Trupti Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917789
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    - boot screen pet peeve When I boot my PC (XP SP2, ATI Radeon 9500 256mb AGP) and Windows begins to load, when it gets to the black screen scrolling loading bar, copyright and Microsoft name, the screen is off to the right and it reads "Microsof" , it is not centered. It used to be. After that screen it says loading personal preferences, the alignment of the screen is perfect. What could be happening to my screen alignment at boot time? How can I fix this annoyance? -- marx404 _________________ Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917785
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    - Address Book Contents Disappeared in MSN Mail All my contacts in my address book in MSN Mail have disappeared and I don't know why. No error message, no nothing. They've just gone. I know I updated Mozilla Firefox but I can't remember if I did that before or after I noticed the address book contents had disappeared. Can anyone help? Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917766
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    - OT: Good web cam for XP Pro SP3 Hello! I am buying a new system and want to get a web cam. Dell has the Creative Live Cam Voice webcam, but the reviews of it are really bad (fisheye view, bad audio). So, can anyone recommend a really good web cam? Thank you! Gregg Hill Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917762
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    - IE cannot display webpage I am very frustrated. I've been trying to get onto one website which I've always been able to do and for the last week or so I keep getting this message. I have IE 7 and windows xp and everything is up to date. I run McAfee security suite. I have tried everything on the solutions page except for setting the computer back to the way it was when I bought it. I would rather not do that. I have tried deleting sp 3 and that hasn't helped. I've also tried deleting a couple of the security updates for IE and that hasn't helped. Should I be deleting IE 7 and going back to IE 6? I'm really needing to get onto that site. It is just the one site. I can get onto others. Help would be greatly appreciated. -- Thanks In Advance Joy Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917759
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    - windows corrupted need to reinstall Ok here we go. This on a small insignia pc (my girlfriends) 6 years old running xp home SP2. This is what happened I was not there so not sure of exact vergage. Got notice from virus software that a virus had been stopped. Also got notice that windows system files had been corrupted. Since then pc not running good. Can not defrag except in safe mode, help and support center will not start. In both cases says files not found but they are there. There is a whole laundry list of issues. She lost all the discs that came with this machine so I have nothing to work with. It has excel and word and I would like to keep them if possible as I do not have the office disk to reinstall. I bought a new XP home edition SP2. Not sure how to go about this. Treat as an upgrade or new install. I am no pc genius but not completely ignorant either. Any suggestions very much apreciated. Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917746
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    - Problem uninstalling program A few days ago, a relative installed this program from the Weather Channel that was described as "Get storm alerts and The Weather Channel local forecasts free on your desktop." http://www.weather.com/services/downloads/index.html?from=hp_tools If that doesn't work for some reason, go to http://www.weather.com and click the link on the right side of the screen described as "Get storm alerts and The Weather Channel local forecasts free on your desktop." He didn't like it, so he uninstalled it. Now the program folder is still in C:\Program Files though it's empty and he gets this error message at startup. Anyone know how to get rid of it? http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj216/Moonbarker/weather.jpg Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917743
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    - Need some USB help, please Maybe someone can provide advice about this problem. I am running windows xp sp3 Here is the situation. SanDisk flash drives cause my computer to lock up. The other flash drives that I have work fine. All other USB devices seem to work fine. Device manager shows no problems I have 2 other windows xp computers and the SanDisk flash drives work fine on those machines Any suggestions, thanks in advance Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917736
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    - XP, SP3 and IIS. I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but I've noticed that the IIS Public forum users don't seem to get answers. Anyway, I have XP Pro (had SP2 on it), with IIS 6. My web site used to work fine, but since upgrading to SP3 last evening, users cannot even connect to me. They get all kinds of "Server not responding", "Timeouts" and several other messages. I've always used this site: http://www.websitepulse.com/help/tools.php?location=9&host=http://www.mynflpicks.ca&p=&seltest=website-test&tab=http&port=&error=%3Cbr%3EThe+following+problems+were+found+while+processing+your+input%3A%3Cbr%3E-+The+verification+code+you+entered+is+incorrect.+Please+enter+the+verification+code+displayed+below.%3Cbr%3E, to test my website externally. Even this tool is not connecting. Is there something in SP3 that crapped my server? It's the only thing that has changed on my system for eons. My web address is: www.mynflpicks.ca and it has been running for some time. I can connect to it internally using localhost, the internal and external ip addresses as well as the Internet Friendly Address. This makes sense since the resolution is occurring at my router's level (I would guess). Additional info: router is a 2700HG-E Gateway with firmware version 4.25.43 installed. According to my router's update configuration link, it is the latest version. I've tried to get hold of my ISP (Telus), but as it is Canada Day, there response is (as always) terribly slow. I would appreciate any ideas. Thanks, MJ Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917712
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    - mouse freeze I am having a problem with my mouse locking up.I downloaded sp3 and that was a disaster. Couldn't get past the blue screen so I called a guy who got me back to windows. Prior to d/l sp3, I d/l .Net framework 2.0 because the manufactuer of the game I was playing said that could be the problem. That just caused a loop to start that I had to keep canceling until it stopped. I removed that and the loop stopped but my mouse still freezes. I tried putting in the driver resource cd to see if I could get a diagnogstic. That came back with Batch File F:/ MSDOS batch missing. (not sure of exact message). Any suggestions on how to remedy this problem? If I decide to try reinstalling windows (Windows XP Media Edition SP2) is there a web site to tell me step by step? Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917707
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    - Cannot remove Viavoice At boot time, or if I bring up the Control Panel, I get the following error : Viavoice Options Module : Failed to load language module. I have tried to Add / Remove Viavoice and it does not help. How can I remove this program and this error? Tag: shutdown must be requested twice Tag: 1917706
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I have to select shutdown twice for the machine. The first time I request it
I get a hiccup the second time it shuts down normally. This problem started
when I installed shutdown.exe. I cant find out how to uninstall it.
Thanks bill

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Re: shutdown must be requested twice by Unknown

Unknown
Wed Jul 02 11:33:15 PDT 2008

Not listed in add/remove? Did you search for it? What is location?
"Bill Bartlett" <no spam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:FA4B86F2-F8A0-453F-B59B-24AF48861827@microsoft.com...
>I have to select shutdown twice for the machine. The first time I request
>it I get a hiccup the second time it shuts down normally. This problem
>started when I installed shutdown.exe. I cant find out how to uninstall it.
> Thanks bill
>
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Re: shutdown must be requested twice by databaseben

databaseben
Wed Jul 02 15:06:04 PDT 2008

go into safemode
and just delete it.

likely it can't be
deleted in normal
mode because it is
actively running
in memory.

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"Bill Bartlett" <no spam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:FA4B86F2-F8A0-453F-B59B-24AF48861827@microsoft.com...
>I have to select shutdown twice for the machine. The first time I request it I
>get a hiccup the second time it shuts down normally. This problem started when
>I installed shutdown.exe. I cant find out how to uninstall it.
> Thanks bill
>
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