darth_ash

The standy\hiberante buttons are greyed out when you have installed new hardware, because your system needs to reboot once. Keep rebooting your PC until the "Found New Hardware" ballon stops appearing.

The WaitToKillServiceTimeout is 20000 by default.

Try re-registring some the WMI related DLLs; type the following commnads in cmd: regsvr32 wmi.dll regsvr32 wmiutils.dll regsvr32 wbemcomn.dll regsvr32 wbemprox.dll regsvr32 wbemsvc.dll. Also; does your "Help Center" run propely?

Could be broken context-menu handlers. Download and use ShellExView to find it. Also examine the the reg-key for the desktop context-menu handler as ShellExView does'nt, examine the following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ Background\ shellex\ ContextMenuHandlers

Refer the "Can I Remove the Ctfmon.exe File?" section in the following M$-KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282599

Activation is just a way for Microsoft to verify your license; for more details on activation refer: http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/activation.mspx. To activate windows, follow the steps below: Start -> Run. Type: oobe/msoobe /a Press <enter>

1) Open cmd. 2) Type fsutil dirty query x:. Press <Enter> 3) If it says "Volume X: is dirty", run a manual chkdsk x: /f scan at that instant. Reboot after u have followed the above steps for all x:

Refer the following M$-KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;223188

Download Resource Hacker, and refer the following link: http://wint.virtualplastic.net/showtweak.php?tweak_id=36

could u pls. mention the app

eMule for old stuff and mIRC for new stuff