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So adding InternetOpenWith, with a dword of 0, at this key doesn't work? HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer If that doesn't work, i know the code responsible for that is in shell32.dll. You could search shell32.dll for internetopenwith, or edit it with resource hacker, the setting should be a part of a an inf file embedded. -gosh

What about sfc /scannow? The service is in HKLM\System\Currentcontrolset\services\msiserver The settings are in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer On the HD the folder is windows\installer -gosh

Of course, are there any errors in event viewer? Have you tried disabling hardware in device manager to rule out drivers? Does this happen in safe mode? -gosh

Yes! This was a bug ive seen many years ago. A good way to repro this is to install a very old version of Hexworks. The problem is that "play all" feature uses Com. If you install a program that does something to com, you'll get that problem. In my case when i installed an incompatible version of hexworks it broke that feature. As soon as i uninstalled the bad hexworks it immediately started working again. So the question becomes: what have you installed lately? Is your 3rd party software compatible? I emailed the windows media team about this issue many years ago and at the time they didn't seem too interested in fixing the issue (media player shouldn't let 3rd party program hijack it's com objects) -gosh

in F8 startup screen disable auto restart on blue screen and tell us what the blue screen is. -gosh

If you do a clean boot with msconfig what happens? -gosh

There are many reasons why WPA would want you to reactivate. XP should let you activate online, it isnt letting you do that? You can activate 3 times online within any 3 month period. If you need to change your product key microsoft has a .vbs file that lets you do that. Windows XP will let you repair it even with the wrong CD. IE you can repair an XP OEM with an XP Retail CD. Thats what it sounds what happened. Make sure you have the right XP CD and do another repair install. -gosh

That's going to be a codec issue. See what codec this video requires. -gosh

Why don't you just activate online? You can activate online up to 3 times during a 3 month span. -gosh

Just run it from a run box The nice thing about a password reset disk is it copies your encryption key to the password reset disk. So if you use a password reset disk you won't lose access to encrypted documents. The way encryption works in XP is in your profile is an encryption key that includes a random hash along with your current password. therefore if you use a 3rd party program to reset your password, you won't be able to decrypt previously encrypted files because the key will be wrong, although you of course can encrypt new files. One thing that was talked about when xp was launched was forcing users to create a password reset disk because it's such a good idea. But apparently that idea lost traction inside microsoft... -gosh

You can run chkdsk without rebooting, just do start, run, chkdsk you only need to reboot if chkdsk needs full access to the volume. in that case it adds autochk to the memory management startup registry key. And like iceman said, all the output is logged to event viewer. -gosh

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Directx changes very little from build to build. The primary reason why microsoft releases small updates is to be redistributed by 3rd parties. For example, if microsoft added functionality for a video card or game i'll release a new version then that 3rd party will put the directx on a cd to be installed. And where does microsoft say you have to download every directx version? It's not a critical update on windows update. It sounds like you wasted several hours downloading versions of directx then blamed microsoft for your own ignorance. -gosh

Before you can do that you have to send $20 in cash in an Envelope addressed to BillG. What happens if you try \\pcname\c$ then try copying those files? Did you share the folder by right clicking on it and clicking the sharing tab? http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/it/2007/0...-windows-vista/ -gosh

IE7 won't allow you to show that list with runonceex because the flag has to be set to 0x70 or 0x80. here's what to do: Make sure the flag youre using allows the popup Add the registry entries and check runonceex, make sure the flag is right run rundll32.exe iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess that'll process the runonceex key, see if you get a popup if you do, then it's one of those hotfixes mentioned -gosh

A DAT file is not a PE file - PE files are binary files, the dat file could be text. Delete mlang.da_ if it exists in your i386 folder, and put your custom mlang.dat into the i386 folder. -gosh

Make a password reset disk. You can do this by going to user accounts in control panel, or running this command: rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,PRShowSaveWizardExW -gosh

If you want speed just upgrade your ram to 2 gigs then dont use a pagefile. That's what i do and it runs very fast. -gosh

When setup fails and restarts sprstrt.exe runs which resumes setup (if undo_guimode.txt is found in the windows directory). Look at the log files in windows, setuplog.txt (general setup), setuperr.txt (setup errors), and setupact.log (gui mode setup). -gosh

Search ref.chm on NTUpgrade. This will upgrade any nt version to XP. And yes it will work, although you might want to run the xp upgrade advisor to make sure there's no compatibility problems. The only problems i've seen doing this is with OEM software that works fine on XP Home but doesn't work on XP Pro. -gosh

What happens in safe mode? -gosh

More info is needed. Post any errors in event viewer. And post what error you get. -gosh

That error means the System registry hive is corrupt. System contains info about your drivers, such as the current control set. It also contains software settings. Since you are just getting a system error, you could just replace the system hive following 307545. However since you randomly can boot, i would recommend running system restore, since a full restore point will have a full backup of your registry. Then i would make sure all your drivers are digitally signed. -gosh

ya really we're not here to write your batch files for you -gosh

i think he means service -gosh