dll has not been registered

[Guest confusedbydll]

A friend's dell laptop with xp home wasn't booting up. There was a corrupted

hive file and config file, which were "fixed" using recovery console.

 

Now xp will boot up, but he first error message is:

 

"Wireless Configuration: Notification dll has not been registered, program

will not work correctly."

 

If you click ok, you can enter xp, but any program you try to start returns

error message:

 

"Problem with Shortcut: This action is only valid for products that are

currently installed."

 

So, it appears that after fixing Hive and config, the computer doesn't

recognize any of the programs.

 

Suggestions??

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: dll has not been registered

 

Wipe & reload.

 

confusedbydll wrote:

> A friend's dell laptop with xp home wasn't booting up. There was a

> corrupted

> hive file and config file, which were "fixed" using recovery console.

>

> Now xp will boot up, but he first error message is:

>

> "Wireless Configuration: Notification dll has not been registered, program

> will not work correctly."

>

> If you click ok, you can enter xp, but any program you try to start

> returns

> error message:

>

> "Problem with Shortcut: This action is only valid for products that are

> currently installed."

>

> So, it appears that after fixing Hive and config, the computer doesn't

> recognize any of the programs.

>

> Suggestions??

[Guest confusedbydll]

Re: dll has not been registered

 

Found the solution: turns out I had only completed half of the recovery.

Still had to manually move the restore point config files back into the

active config folder. That did the trick. (windows doc explains process:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us)

 

But, I've spent several hours doing this and could have reformatted and

reinstalled xp twice by now.....the only consolation is that I can recover a

few files that would have been lost (my friend wisely backs up her files

regularly, so most are safely stored away).

 

Thanks

 

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Wipe & reload.

>

> confusedbydll wrote:

> > A friend's dell laptop with xp home wasn't booting up. There was a

> > corrupted

> > hive file and config file, which were "fixed" using recovery console.

> >

> > Now xp will boot up, but he first error message is:

> >

> > "Wireless Configuration: Notification dll has not been registered, program

> > will not work correctly."

> >

> > If you click ok, you can enter xp, but any program you try to start

> > returns

> > error message:

> >

> > "Problem with Shortcut: This action is only valid for products that are

> > currently installed."

> >

> > So, it appears that after fixing Hive and config, the computer doesn't

> > recognize any of the programs.

> >

> > Suggestions??

>

>