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cluberti - Yes. I have the folder. There is even a subdirectory in it, the remainings of installed Diskeeper, a "{A320805E-26CE-4332-9239-2F4837165C8B}" dir with ARPPRODUCTICON.exe and DkIcon.exe files. gosh - Yes, I tried that.

Guys, I decided to remove the part of desktop context menu in my Windows 2000 SP4. More specifically the first menu "Active Desktop" I looked in the net a bit and gathered some infos, however not enought. In the end it looks like the Resource Hacker is need to modify the shell32.dll, witch is not a problem. These menus are in the String Table, item 261. The stringtable looks like this: As you can see, line 4173 it is. Now the menu under the Active Desktop thing is there, Menu 218: This is the sub-menu of the Active Desktop menu. Usualy only first there lines + the separator are show, but I did not want the whole submenu. Anyone know what to change the values, to make the menu disappear? PS: some links with infos I gather there: http://firest-dead.blogspot.com/2007/11/tweak-xp-home.html http://www.virtualplastic.net/msgboard/thr...&thread=125

I got only 6 disabled services. I set them all back to manual yet no help. Prior to that, I tried unregistering and reregistering msiexec: msiexec /unreg msiexec /regserver Sadly no help either. So I tried installing the updated installer ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en ), sadly no help either. Then I tried the unreg/reg trick again, just to be sure and it's still not helping... So I fired up FileMon to watch what is going on when I try start the Installer service and the results are only 3 problems: 313 11:46:36 msiexec.exe:776 OPEN C:\WINNT\system32\msiexec.exe.Local NOT FOUND Options: Open Access: All 336 11:46:36 msiexec.exe:776 OPEN C:\WINNT\system32\Program\picture.exe PATH NOT FOUND Options: Open Access: All 363 11:46:36 msiexec.exe:776 QUERY SECURITY C:\WINNT\Installer INVALID DEVICE REQUEST INVALID DEVICE REQUEST?! I tried take a look at the Dial-a-fix utility and I must say it helped me with my other problem - my windows positions are NO remembered before. It found out that there was set some nasty limitations (probably by spyware), witch caused these settings are NOT remembered. Well, not anymore. Dial-a-fix helped me greatly! http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix#Standard_version Thanks a lot, cluberti ! Sadly it did not help me with the installer problem...

LiquidSage - thanks for pointing me into the right direction! DigeratiPrime - yea, they play fine... ...and the problem was - screwed up Windows! Problem fixed. Believe it or not, it was the device drivers busted by - well, gotta come clean - me. In desperate search for virus in my machine, I uninstalled quite a few hidden device drivers from windows. I just picked the ones with bad / weird names. Results - wmv files busted in certain players and computer not reacting on power off button. Oh, well, and DVDRW drive not working/detected at all. Problem fixed by restoring the backup of win (hooray for DriveImage) and removing just the known virus dll file and nothing else. Worked perfectly. Now where is my CD's for longer time backups that DVD's...?

Windows 2000 SP 4 here. After some tweakings and problems (including removal od some spyware and stuff) my Installer service can't be started. Hence, for example, installing anything is not possible. And, for example, FF can't use the M$ java, so... Anyone know, what to do, beside reinstall, to make it working again? The C:\WINNT\system32\msiexec.exe /V file is here. The service is not disabled, it is on manual. However when in services I choose to start it, then in fail to and report that "service did not return any error", so it might be a Windows itself fault ****. Anyone having some ideas, what to test? The path seems to be fine: C:\WINNT\system32\msiexec.exe /V

Sounds good, thanks a lot, cluberti Now the question then is - how to delete these files I cannot even see?

I would like to know, if anyone can recommend me a good WMV file clean-up program that strip the file from all crap that was get added into it. The problem? I tried to fix video play pauses with video from Panasonic TZ3 camera by updating the BSplayer to v 2.21 or so... It not fix the issue, but it added a troyan to my system. When I get rid of it, some WMV videos (rather perverted and rare, so to add) get busted - eg. it is not possible to play them anymore with old WinMedia player 7, or BSplayer Pro 1.41. Media Player Classic and WinMedia player 9 can play them, tough. I tried the ASF-AVI-RM-WMV Repair v1.82 ( http://www.repairvideo.com/ ) but it did not help me with this particular issue - but it did speed-up playing start of some RM files, so it does work somewhat... Any ideas, suggestions? If necessary I can upload on rapidsh*t some tame files, like: Realtickling - Vibcharlotte3.wmv ...to be inspected 88 240 450 bytes, tough... Anyone?

I believe that it become necessary reinstall each of the machines, but then lock the users in their user modes... ...and create a backup when the machine is freshly installed and fully working for each one. That way you can later resume back to working state in just like 5 min... DriveImage is preffered, IMHO.

Witch Vista? NONE. Unless you are masochists and want all the DRM crap, limits and tiltbites. But if you are, well, you probably enjoy it a lot! Have fun! Don't mind articles like this: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

My Win2k SP4 is a "little" bit ficked up, true. For example windows positions and sizes are not remembered anymore and recently not even the powerbutton works, lol But can it be these weird registry entry things? Shall I remove them? Shall I worry?

My stepbro moved the HDD to new machine, reinstalled windows and - there we go - scandisk once again after every boot He moved the data, reformated and - no more problems That fixed it! Next time I know better

Problem found and fixed. I find that after replacing hal.dll file with nonstandard size of 82 176 bytes - while hal.dll is still 66 848 bytes long, even after IE6 and DX9.0c updates for Win2k SP4 - I can now use the ProceXP sucesfully to close the hadle and hence delete the file. Hoooray! And it does not re-create - till next reboot, ****. The major cause is pmxgl32.dll file, witch is likely a trojan virus. After running HijackThis.exe I get recommened to take a look at this file and that was it. Google find this link: http://forum.kaspersky.com/lofiversion/index.php/t47534.html According to witch I removed it - and viola - problems are gone! Hoooray! Dunno how much bad files are still on my HDD, but at least no apparent problem is visible - till new reinstall Neverless I probably have to STOP using IE even for sites I think are safe Uploaded the file with this thing too Thanks for the link. There is the file, if anyone are interesed: http://rapidshare.com/files/56065674/785584CF_virus.zip

Guys! It would be a lifesaver, if anyone can tell me, how to modify the cursed Winblows to the winlongon.exe will start and run with at least Normal priority, if not Below Normal That would make my day, because booting and testing "if this or that" finally fixed my problem will be so much faster... Anyone can help me with that? Meanwhile, there is log from latest RunScanner version 1.03: http://ax2.old-cans.com/Win2K_SP4_autoruns.zip Will it help someone to determine WTF is going on there?

After disabling swap and cloning my Win2k SP4 from 120G Maxtor C: 2G partition on 320G Hitachi C: 2G partition the boot become extremely slow after winlogon kick in. Took like 10 minutes and about 20 sec one has to wait for every single click to get recognized, etc. System act very slow. All speed problems went away when using ProcView I changed the priority of winlogon.exe from High to Below Normal. But not ALL problems. Drive C: has ZERO free space - a huge problem. All the space is consumed by file 785584CF.dll in C:\WinNT\Temp directory. Any attempts to delete the file failed miserably. The file is locked by winlogon.exe and killing this process cause instant freeze. Using ProceXP I tried to close the file handle, to be able to delete it, yet once again - message invalid descriptor stopped me. It is possible to kill the file in DOS (Zip boot, C: is FAT32) but after new reboot - there we go again. Any free space on C: I managed to free get consumed again and very quickly... In short - it suxx. What is weird is, that any time I can boot using the old drive and it works w/o any these troubles. Now that is WEIRD. I tried SpyBoot (updated), Ad-Aware (updated) and Avast and Kaspersky (updated) to help me get rid of the virus/problem or what the hell this is, but none of them are successful. Avast, tough, find some ntkros.dll file the BSplayer put in my machine, witch make the old version of BSplayer finally run (the new one suxx badly) - but that is probably not related... Any ideas are welcome!

I already tried the through complete drive scan, including back blocks and the drive is certified error free. I always let the scandisk boot scan run/finish. Only thing that help is fsutil /X D: This stop the checking of D: completely. However the drive is STILL dirty after reboot. This is weird. How come the XP insist on the drive being so dirty? That is the question. I run the scandisk in windows and the drive is still dirty. I run it trhoughly in recovery console on next reboot and quess what. The drive is still dirty...