A friend called the other day with a Windows XP computer that all of a sudden wouldn’t load Windows. Apparently it was reporting that a couple of key files were missing.
He booted from the CD into the recovery console (must not have had it loaded, I always load on any installs I do). But he [...]
Archive for the 'Repair - Windows' Category
NTFS vs FAT32
May 15, 2007System State Backup Error 0×800423f0
April 19, 2007Note: This applies to servers that are domain controllers, but if you get this error on a workstation, try the fix anyway.
I have written about the value of a system state backup, but what do you do when it fails with some arcane error message?
From what I found, this error comes from a bug in [...]
Windows XP Shutdown or Hibernate?
April 11, 2007Yahoo! tech had an article today about speeding Windows XP shutdown. See http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/how-do-i-speed-xp-s-shutdown-/200654.
In that article, the author suggested that XP can run reliably for days or even weeks without being rebooted, so why not hibernate instead – it doesn’t take as long.
Why indeed? Well, for starters because my experience is that Windows XP is more [...]
Illegal System DLL Relocation – Burned by Windows Updates Again!
April 11, 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/935448/
Use the above link if you get:
Illegal System DLL Relocation
The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory
Apparently, a recent Windows XP security update was buggy (no, really?). So QuickBooks and a host of other programs are crashing now. Are we having fun yet?
Even though I have [...]
Blue Screen of Death – Inaccessible Boot Device
March 20, 2007I received a call late yesterday from a client who had been aggressively burning files to CD and deleting. This system was running Windows 2000 Pro and equipped with only 128MB RAM.
Things started acting a bit weird, but she kept going until she received a registry error message. This got her attention, but she wasn’t [...]
