APXIO startup error after update

[kahlil88]

Just spent the past week fixing my friend's laptop, upgraded from Vista to Win7 and everything was working smoothly. He installed some updates and now is getting a startup error about some APXIO file. Tried to do a startup repair from the install CD, but it didn't find any problems.

Edited November 1, 2010 by kahlil88

[cluberti]

There's no windows file with anything close to that name, so it might help to know what the exact filename is.

[kahlil88]

I booted Ubuntu from a live CD and found the APXIO file in the C:\ directory. Removing it has solved the problem, and hopefully there won't be any side effects down the road. I believe the problem was caused by him enabling drive compression and canceling it partway through.