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Hi, I'm experiencing random crashes of svchost.exe; when it happens, every command I give won't be done, like closing any window or opening task manager even shutting down windows. I can only reset the machine. Assuming there are no spywares/viruses/malware, is there a way I can diagnose what is happening? i.e. monitoring the system until a crash happens and getting a log from somewhere, something like a MS or third party utility or something I can enable in windows itself? My machine: e8400, mb gigabyte EP45-DS3 latest bios, 4gb corsair, 9800gtx+, windows xp sp3. Let me know if you need more details. Thank you in advance.

I found the answer by myself. The file I was trying to import was not a picsrules file, but a outlook user profile. For some reason the .prf files were associated to "rundll32.exe msrating.dll,ClickedOnPRF %1". I changed it to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /PromptImportPRF "%1" and now it correctly imports the profile in outlook.

Hi, I'm trying to run a .prf file and I receive the error message: The file is correct, it shows this message with any .prf file. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I'm using Royale VIsta theme for XP with dark window background, because the default white background was too bright. I've setted up my browser with a custom css file to fix background color for some web pages forcing it to white, because I couldn't read them anymore. My last trouble is with messenger, where the windows background makes me difficult to read the text. Is there a way to change the default background color for text cells in msn without touching Xp theme? Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your reply. 1. a ps2 adapter doesn't help (mouse doesn't work at all) 2. the surface is not a problem. When it freezes for that couple seconds, even the buttons doesn't work. 3. I changed 2 equal mice and I had the same problems, I didn't try a different usb mouse, though.

I reinstalled the OS and the problem is still there, even if now happens a bit less frequently. I guess it's something related to my chipset (nforce2) or maybe ts drivers (5.10)...

I ran the reg bat file and received these errors: ' Windows" is not recognized as and internal or external command, operable program or batch file. and The system cannot find the path specified. Reffering to the KEY in the batch file. I also ran the other batch file and re-registered the IE6 dlls. Still no luck. SteveG It seems you renamed the reg file as bat and the bat file as reg. Rename them correctly and run them again.

First make sure you deleted the right reg key (run the attached reg file). you can try to run the batch attached which re-registers ie dlls and if it doesn't work try this script to reinstall ie6 (you'll need xp cd) and then restart. fix__add_bat_extension_.txt fix__add_reg_extension_.txt

Hi, my pc suddenly takes a lot of time to start windows, and the disk is busy for many minutes at startup. I don't have spywares/rootkits/viruses of any kind. I monitored the disk access at startup with filemon and I noticed that services.exe reads all the files on disk c:. The only service that starts with services.exe is plug and play. I've found around that someone managed to solve this by making file system permission changes in group policy, but I never modified it... Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!!

Thanks for your replies. Actually I already changed 2 mice, same brand/model. They all worked ok with other pcs, so it's something wrong with my pc. I'd like to avoid reinstalling xp, I guess it's something related to software/drivers because usb ports works perfectly with any other usb device I use (pen drives, cameras, printers, modems, cell phones...) Any idea?

I managed to resolve this by myself. I'm posting here what I did for future reference. Actually it's quite simple; it seems you have to re-register many dlls after a downgrade from IE7 to IE6. I registered the dlls listed in this page and now everything works again. Moreover, I suggest to uninstall and then reinstall the flash player, and also the JRE if you need it.

Hi, some time ago I switched from a ps2 mouse to a trust MI-2540D usb mouse, but when I started using it I noticed it sometimes freezes the cursor on screen for one secont or two then it works again. It happens randomly every few seconds/minutes and while the cursor is frozen, even the buttons input is not detected by the pc. I already tried to remove the old mouse from the peripheral list and restart, no way. My pc is an athlon xp 2600+ on nforce2 based asus a7n8x-x, os xp sp2 always updated. I don't have viruses or malware of any kind. Can someone please help me? Thanks in advance!

Hi, I have another problem. When I open any site which contains activex, I get the message "Your security settings do not allow websites to use activeX..." even if I give activeX all permissions in the Security settings. That's quite strange, does anyone know what it means? Thanks in advance!

Thanks, it solved my problem!

Hi, I had to uninstall IE7 from my office pc because internally developed tools don't support it, so it wasn't "compliant". Now I have some troubles with IE6: when I open a IE window it correctly loads the default page, then when I enter an url and press enter it opens another session that freezes itself immediately, then another and another, all frozen. At this point I have to terminate them with task manager. I've read around that this is somehow a known problem when you uninstall IE7, and I tried to register some dlls again, disable all add-ons but I didn't solve my problem. then I tried to reinstall IE6 with ie6.inf, with IEfix, with ieradicator and then installed again...no way. Does anyone have an idea of how to fix this? Thanks in advance. p.s. please, don't tell me to run antivirus or antispywares, I can assure it's not a malware problem. bye!