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1st class tip fella! Was up in and running with windows updates 10 minutes after reading this post! Found a good little tip for re-registering DLL's quickly as well for all us 1st timers out there! http://www.devx.com/tips/tip/14749 "NewScience" wrote: > Had same problem. What I did was: > > 1. Stopped SERVICES.MSC Automatic Updates and BITS > 2. Removed C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log > 3. Removed C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder > 4. Re-Register C:\Windows\system32\muweb.dll, as well as all associated > C:\Windows\System32\wu*.dll > > regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\wuapi.dll > regsvr32 /s c:\windows\sys…

I'm having a similar issue & had to turn off my updates as well. Suddenly was unable to connect to the internet... kept getting a message saying no connection was available. Dell had me do a system restore, but I kept having to restore to 8/6/08 every day in order to get online. The diagnostics I ran all recognized that I had a strong and active broadband connection. The correction that 'stagefright' wrote on 3/27 is too advanced... I don't understand it! Can anyone help? -- Alex "stagefright" wrote: > I've just gotten a new machine with Vista Home on it. All seems to be fine, > but after any windows updates, the next time i restar…

(cross-post added to 64bit.general) "marvinmycat" <marvinmycat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5E23E337-E9BD-4781-B32C-7E41CA7E1595@microsoft.com... > Windows XP Pro 64-bit > > Windows Automatic Updates website reports "Administrators Only" and starting > wuauaserv generates error 126: spcified module not found. What module is not found? Is there any supplementary information in the Event Viewer Application log? WindowsUpdate.log with verbose logging? (Ref. KB902093). If necessary you could Run... ProcMon to capture the file access failure which probably generated this message. The same diagnostic approach cou…

Greetings all, My system includes: ECS P4M800PRO-M motherboard Intel Dual core P4 3GHz processor 4GB Kingston DDR2 533MHz memory BFG 7800GS video card Windows XP Professional with SP3 installed Originally a SBLive! 5.1 sound card Also tried a CompUSA "CMedia CMI8738/C3DX based" 5.1 sound card (which is currently still installed) After downloading and installing a couple of "optional" software updates from the windows update site, my system started crashing to a HALT and Memory Dump screen. I did a "Repair" re-installation of my Windows XP Professional. Installed SP3 and all "necessary" updates from the Windows update web site. Also I download…

Hello Mr. Murphy, We are in receipt of your complaint. Being that there are some cases of REAL (as opposed to IMAGINED) identity theft pending investigation in our files, your problem will have to wait until we get around to having the time to investigate anyone who uses another person's name - which is not illegal, BTW - in a Usenet newsgroup post. That time will probably never come. In the meantime, continue to make your implausible threats to whomever you please. Maybe they will be stupid enough to believe you. Respectfully (har-har), The High-Tech Crime Squad Mick Murphy wrote: >They are in the High-Tech Crime Squad. >Laugh when…

OK, this one has taken on a life of its own, but I'm finally ready to kick off SuperSite Switcher Guide: From Mac OS X to Windows with a look at what I hope to accomplish with this new series! More...

"Pat Walters [MSFT]" wrote: > "kaki", > > This particular error is 0x80070020 - "The process cannot access the file > because it is being used by another process" This suggests that you have > two processes attempting to download the same update. The quick suggestion > is to try rebooting your machine and go to the Windows Update site directly > to download. If this does not work, go to your WindowsUpdate log and reply > back with the latest error. Here is the procedure for that: > I am sorry that you have encountered this issue. There is a log that is > created for all of your windows update downloads. Would you mind open…

"Pat Walters [MSFT]" wrote: > "kaki", > > This particular error is 0x80070020 - "The process cannot access the file > because it is being used by another process" This suggests that you have > two processes attempting to download the same update. The quick suggestion > is to try rebooting your machine and go to the Windows Update site directly > to download. If this does not work, go to your WindowsUpdate log and reply > back with the latest error. Here is the procedure for that: > I am sorry that you have encountered this issue. There is a log that is > created for all of your windows update downloads. Would you mind open…

Shop online at Dell for a variety of notebook options ZDNet Asia, Asia - 8 minutes ago Windows Vista and Microsoft Office: Other brands of notebooks come preinstalled with a specific edition of Vista (like Vista Home Basic) and upgrading to a ... More...

DreamScene is running very fine on my computer but when i started windows is shows an error everytime that "Windows DreamScene has detected that Explorer was not closed properly. As a precaution, DreamScene has been temporarily disabled". can anyone help me to get rid off from this, so my system can start DreamScene every time i logon. -- kunalneetu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kunalneetu's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/kunalneetu.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-help/1030060.htm http://forums.techarena.in

"Dave" wrote: > I keep getting this message. Everything was fine but then I started getting it. > "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with > your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your > computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be > functioning properly." > > Can anyone help?

Hi to all, Am just indeed very thankfull for the help to solve this error, which i have too trying to solve it for half a yr now, i cant access my msn and unable to update and well after i follow all those instruction : Go to Start>Run and key in each of these commands, one at a time, clicking> > on OK or hitting ENTER after each command and then clicking on OK in the > > RegSvr32 dialogue box: > > regsvr32 softpub.dll > > regsvr32 mssip32.dll > > regsvr32 initpki.dll > > regsvr32 wintrust.dll After the RESTART my comp able to operate normally again =) Thanks guys am very grateful to u all =) take care !! =) …

Another "feature" of Vista, unseen in W2000 and before: Formatting the partition on my CompactFlash card produces 6 reserved sectors, that means the boot sector (ok) and 5 additional sectors (bad). Microsoft Windows CE 2.0 hates every FAT system having more than the usual 1 reserved (boot) sector and only offers to format the card itself. This is my good old Casio A-20 handheld. So far ... the WinCE 2.0 writes only a minimally filled boot sector, no text like "FAT" in there. While Vista (and W2000) can access files on such a volume (partition), it is unable to check the file system because the check does not detect it as FAT. Excellent compatibility! Be…

In Vista, formatting a harddisk, CompactFlash card, USB memory stick or anything erases the whole partition by writing 0-bytes - unless you selected "Quick format". Older Windows, like 2000, read from the media (sent a verify command to driver) so you could still abort the operation as long as it was "checking" only. Same behavior for Explorer and "format" cmd. Did anybody notice this change? I found it after Vista zeroed not only the partition content but the whole CompactFlash card (that means Master Boot Record, too). But this total kill was not reproducable. Best Regards, Ralf -- A20_user Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Hello, Nuance (Scansoft) doesn't seem to support Omnipage 16 well. The initial install worked OK until six months ago. Since then I have failed to get one good OCR of a document. The program Omnipage 16 crashes in msvcr80 and msvcp80. I've tried putting the latest versions of those programs in the c:\windows\system32 directory, but that does not work

Thanks mate this is the first time i have made an internal fix on my 'puter' and it worked perfectly even though i used 'notepad' instead of wordpad. For your information my os. is windows XP SP3. "delizade" wrote: > thankyou very much. it was work. > BTW...right now in my system there is a Trojan which name is Trojan.Qhosts. > i couldnt get rid of it. i' m still trying . I wonder that, can that trojan > make this update problem? > > > > "Harish.G [MSFT]" wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > If you are getting error 0x80070424 while scanning for updates on windows > > update site. try the following step…

"Harish.G [MSFT]" wrote: > Hi, > > If you are getting error 0x80070424 while scanning for updates on windows > update site. try the following steps to resolve the issue. > > > 1. open "wordpad" > > 2. copy this text (below) into the "wordpad" > > 3. save the "wordpad" file as "IEreg.bat" > > 4. copy the below given contents to "IEreg.bat" > > ------------------------------------------------------ > regsvr32 comcat.dll /s > regsvr32 shdoc401.dll /s > regsvr32 shdoc401.dll /i /s > regsvr32 asctrls.ocx /s > regsvr32 oleaut32.dll /s > regsvr32 shdocvw.dll /I /s > regsvr32 shdoc…

When I have detail veiw selected, I go to View> Choose Details and select the details I want to be able to see, but no matter what I select (such as album title, artist, year, track number, etc) and click OK, it makes no difference. On the main folder at least the detail titles show up, but the details themselves don't, and for any subfolders, even the detail titles don't show up. All I'm able to see is Name, Type, Size and Date Modified. Thanks in advance for your help.

I had the same problem attempting to install from another drive. I transfered the file to my desktop and it worked from there. "shelleyanne" wrote: > I cannot get my files and settings transfered. It keeps telling me that the > file specified for transfer does not contain any information. I can clearly > see that it does but it's all .dat so I can't read it. Can anybody help? > Thanks

Evolution and Life Mobility Site, AL - 36 minutes ago My fellow writer here at MobilitySite, Steve Laser, recently posted an excellent and well thought out piece detailing his frustration with the Windows ... More...

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So let's pick up our "routine" again later this evening or tomorrow.

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Frank's Ass Licker wrote: Judge for yourself. By PowerUser: "Licentious. Obnoxious. Anti-democratic. In case you can't tell, I'm making a direct reference to Mr. Adam Albright. Before I launch into my main topic, I want to make a few matters crystal-clear: (1) Failure to recognize this salient point will result in Adam's getting free reign to enshrine irrational fears and fancies as truth, and (2) as a result of that, my observations are perhaps unique. Now that you know where I stand on those issues, I can safely say that wily cutthroats like Adam are not born -- they are excreted. However unsavory that metaphor may be, Adam acts as if he were King of the …

For those keeping score, the idiot Adam Albright is off his medication and is a loon today.