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My Internet Explorer kept clinging, so I have Dr. Watson running in the background. Now Dr. Watson gives me various messages associated with OLEAUT32.DLL. The last message read "OLEAUT32.DLL attempted to use a null data pointer variable." I'm not sure what that means, but I do know that my computer has an older and newer version of this DLL ( older is April 1999 and the newer is August 2008). Could my computer be experiencing some sort of conflict by having both versions of the same DLL installed?

thanks for your comments. The Video Formats are MPEG and AVI- They were ok but now there is nothing but thew actual folder. I have tried to change to THUMBNAILS but it make no difference. Thanks for your help Peter

HI I have recently had a virus/malware problem. I have found a lot of stuff that I have removed but I couldn't boot in safe mode to run any of the anti spy/malware programs due to a constant bluescreen error after pressing F8. I read that using msconfig to boot in safe mode may work so I tried it! I ticked the Safeboot option and rebooted but now (of course) I still get the blue screen and now can't even get into windows. The bluescreen message is along the line of... A problem has been detected... ***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78BE524, 0x0000034, 0x000000000, 0x000000000) Does anyone have any suggestions? Pleeeeeese :confused: Can I bypass msconfig some…

In Control Panel / Windows Firewall / Exceptions ; I am suspicious of the some of the programs that are Enabled. Some have names like Remote Assistant, Network Diagnostics for W XP, and Windows Live Messneger. There are 9 at the top of the list that DO NOT have names which worry me? There is a box with a check mark in and just the word 'ENABLE',,, no name of a Program. When I click on Edit they have names which I will now Copy. I don't know about enabling these places to have access to my PC, whether they are important for operation or some type of intrusion. (Remember the only name they have is 'ENABLE" and they are checked, I don't ever remember allowi…

Hi the computer running XP Home has crashed stating "The video driver failed to initialise" and no amount of attempting safe mode or any other access works. The computer was store bought and didn't come with a recovery disk and none was made since. There is no trace of the XP home disk that came with it but I do have a brand new XP Pro disk and license that I was going to use in a new PC I was hoping to try and build just for the experience. My question is, if I install Windows XP using the "boot from CD option" will I lose the data such as photographs etc. already on the computer or will it just upgrade the operating system?

Hello The situation: I maintain an office, where they now got a computer with Vista. There are 4 computers, all connected via lan and the idea is that all documents are shared to everyone. There are 2 computers with XP Professional, one with XP Home and now one with Vista Home Premium. Sharing works in all cases, all computers can access "my documents" on all other computer (though on Vista I renamed the Documents folder for the sake of the standard. There are 3 minor issues with the system. The XP Pro are the best working computers. 1) XP Home cannot remember passwords for logging in to other computers. Is this specific for "home"? Professional has it…

After installing a security update for Office XP I'm getting a pop up message asking to accept end user license before I can use Word or Excel. All would be fine if it wasn't the terminal server where users connect to access Office applications. They can't accept the license as you need administrative privileges to do that so basically they get stuck till they contact me so I can log in as admin and accept the license for them. How do I set them up so they can accept that license themselves when it pops up again? yaro

When I download Video Clips I get then sent to the appropriate folder, however, I do Not get a visual picture of what is inside. I therefore have to open every folder individually to know what it contains. I do NOT get this problem with fotos. Can anybody help to to re-set my computer? I have changed from tiles to lists etc and back again without any success. I am at a loss. Thanks

Hi All! I've run into a bit of a conundrum: we recently purchased 3 2003 Server Licences, with OEM Media Kits, however when it was delivered we discovered that the supplier had sent us 2008 OEM Media kits (and licences). From what I understand there is a way in which you can obtain 2003 Product Keys, based on the purchase of the 2008 edition - I've actually done this through the Eopen website, but for non-oem kits, please see Q2. All are standard editions, we wanted 2003 R2 64bit. Q1: Is this true? Q2: If so, how do we go about it? I've logged into the eopen website, where we normally register our non-oem server software, however this time round the …

Hello, The basic setup:-I have a WRT54GS Linksys wireless router, one PC, which is always on, is networked directly to the router via ethernet cable, and two PC's using linksys wireless adapters. One of these PC's is new and I have just set it up. My Problem:- When my new PC (wireless) is turned on, the network on it alone, is very slow UNLESS i turn on the laptop as well (also wireless). When that happens, the network traffic on the new PC works absolutely fine. So basically at the minute, in order to stream movies and copy files over on to the new wireless PC i *have* to have the laptop on as well! I figure this is something to do with the routing table…

Can anyone shed any light on my problem please. When I go into My Computer the icon for the hard drives and DVDs are all generic so that I am unable to see at a glance which is the DVD drives. I have been into Device Manager and the DVD drives (2) are correctly identified. I have checked as suggested by some in the registry for Drive Icons but this does not exist. I am running XP Pro with all the updates. My video card is Nvidia but I do not thinkl that has any bearing on the problem -- greggsy

There is a .NET 3.0 windows service project. It works well on a developer's comp (OS is WinXP SP2), but after deploying on production server (Win 2003) it crashes almost every 2-3 days. Event Viewer entries about crashes: Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting Description: Faulting application integrationmodule.exe, version 1.0.0.0, stamp 48a43452, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.2.3790.1830, stamp 424377d2, debug? 0, fault address 0x00015dea. Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting Description: EventType clr20r3, P1 mjkah4picgxrjdnj31lbhxzntbxbslmm, P2 1.0.0.0, P3 48a43452, P4 mscorlib, P5 2.0.0.0, P6 4333ab80, P7 1e8, P8 0, P9 system.o…

We get about 22 users on Terminal Server 2003 SP2 and the "Processor Queue Length" goes wacky. We have an errant application somewhere, but don't know how to determine what application is causing this to happen. Any suggestions on where to look?

Hi I am getting an issue when trying to import some scopes into DHCP using NETSH import command , basically I have 5 scopes lets call them S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5 , there 3 SuperScopes , SS1, SS2, SS3 configures as follows SS1 S1 SS2 S2 S3 SS3 S4 S5 no matter which order I import these file , the moment you get to importing the 3rd Superscope you are presented with the error "The object already exists" I have check for MAC duplication and even though there are a few , If I delete them from the source server and do the import again there error still crops up. Running W2k3 SP2 Any Idea ? Thanks

I'm getting notification that the server recovered from a serious error. Sending information to Microsoft indicates a device driver problem. It's a production Terminal Server so following their process for troubleshooting is pretty much out of the question, as the crash can not reliably be reproduced. I downloaded and installed DebugDiag as well as symbol files. When i try and do a crash analysis of memory.dmp I get an error message that DebugDiag failed to locate the PEB (Process Environment Block) in memory.dmp, and as a result, debug analysis for this dump may be incomplete or inaccurate. Does anyone know what I need to do so that DebugDiag can succes…

Hello, I am new here. I generally leave my computer on and occassionaly I will come back to my pc after 5 minutes having been working on important documentation and find that an automatic update has occured and my pc has restarted. I then lose valuable data - end up cursing and generally it ruins the rest of my day. I am sure the Microsoft guys get a kick out of ruining people's days but HOW DO I DISABLE AN AUTOMATIC RESTART! McAfee requests that I restart - so how do I do the same for my Microsoft restart. I am fearing for the safety of my PC because this is driving me to madness.

I am working on a Windows ME system, that I cannot get to reboot. It is set to immediately scanreg, then has this UPS warning program that comes on. I try to get into msconfig immediately upon reboot but by the time that screen comes up it sends the system into immediate reboot again. I did a scanreg /restore back to a previous date but has not helped. Also went into system.ini from dos prompt and changed shell=explorer.exe to shell=progman.exe. It gets to the progman.exe and just starts to open, send it to an immediate reboot. Do not have system CD for Windows ME, but was able to create the start up disc. Any idea what file I could access from the…

I have an issue that has been driving me insane. I have 4 Windows XP Pro SP3 workstations. All the Accounting Dept PC’s. I also have an old Windows 2000 SP4 Server that I want to take offline and decommission. The problem is as soon as I disconnect this server or shut it down. The 4 workstations slow to a crawl. Not just on the network but performance as well. Here is the scenario: Workstation 1 connected to network and Server Old connected to network. Everything works great, PC’s screaming fast. Unplug network cable of ServerOld, workstation1 slows to a crawl. Open command prompt and type notepad to open notepad 60 seconds before notepad opens. (I…

We are having issues with our exchange 2003 server. For some reason, the Exchange System Attendant wont start. It comes up with Error 1068: The depedency or service group failed to start We need a fix asap as there are alot of people in our company which rely on the exchange server to run (for obvious reasons). All permissions are in place, we have restarted DNS, and rebooted our Active Directory servers. Please advise Regards

We are sometimes told "please reboot your computer" If I do this by closing down and then switching on again (a cold boot) all is fine, BUT if I do this by clicking restart (a hot boot), the computer shuts down tries to switch on again and after being given the option to go into bios the screen goes black and the message "error loading operating system" appears. If I now cut the power and switch on again it boots up fine. What is going on?

Again, I thank all of you for input. The problem turned out to be a need for a 'Firm-ware' update,, even though the modem was only purchased a few months ago. Moral of story,,, dont use 'virginbroadband' as an isp,, cos' Richard will be out Ballooning across the country rather than looking after his customers. Thanks to all again.

After installing a security update for Office XP I'm getting a pop up message asking to accept end user license before I can use Word or Excel. All would be fine if it wasn't the terminal server where users connect to access Office applications. They can't accept the license as you need administrative privileges to do that so basically they get stuck till they contact me so I can log in as admin and accept the license for them. How do I set them up so they can accept that license themselves when it pops up again? yaro

I want to create a bootable XP (sp3) cd and perform a clean installation. But I get an error when I ues the integrate command. The following lines are extraced from the log file ===================================================== 0.015: 2008/10/16 12:43:01.296 (local) 0.031: c:\d4f1fb4d20a63e044c654d9b44\i386\update\update.exe (version 6.3.13.0) 0.031: Slipstream mode 0.078: Service Pack started with following command line: /integrate:C:\driver\winxpsp2 3.344: 2409 OnlyUpdatesOfLowerSPIntegrated: media has no integrated hotfixes (C:\driver\winxpsp2\i386\svcpack.inf is not found). ===================================================== I' ve tried to use …

I made some temporary changes to various security settings for a particular purpose and know there is a danger I'll forget to reset them afterwards. Is there any way you can get a reminder/task to run whenever you try to log off/shut down which would prompt you to reset them? Grateful for ideas.

Re: SBS 2003 SP2 backup failed with error creating volume shadow c Try this one http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940239 rgds, Edwin. "Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" <EdwinvMierlo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:... > do you actually get the Event ID 21 in the event log ? > > please copy the event into a post > > any other errors at that time, or leading up to it ? > > thanks, > Edwin. > > > > "Rayson" <Rayson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:28285F58-40F8-438F-B0DF-BE9655631986@microsoft.com... > > Thanks, Edwin. > > However there is no /3GB switch as me…