Grey Star On Task Bar Stops Everything
Oct 8, 2009windows stops working when grey star appears in my task bar only can run in safe mode.
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Grey Sidebar
Jun 5, 2009After my sec0nd botched attempt at installing Explorer 8 on my Vista
Ultimate, I have ended up with a gray (instead of transparent) sidebar.
how to return it to its previous transparency?
Grey Screen Of Windows
Jan 5, 2010This toshiba P205 laptop is running Vista 32. It has run for over 2 years, and recently the screen started to fail (or so it appeared). The screen will be grey, no cursor or anything, but the backlight works. I can plug into VGA monitor and operate the computer. I checked the screen connections and wiring, all good. It was an intermittent problem for about a month, and then it completely failed. I did a complete system recovery, and my screen was back. Worked fine for a couple days, and then on a reboot, it went grey again, and won't come back up. VGA output still works fine. Has anyone heard of something like this? The screen will not display anything, even the BIOS splash won't display, although I can change boot priority via F12 as it boots. I don't want to go through another day+ of recovery if I don't need to (2 years of updates takes some time). I don't know if this is something Toshiba will fix if I send it in, especially since the laptop is from 11/2007.
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It is beyond me, I have the video card drivers up to snuff, all updates are installed, virus scanners/spyware scanners, video card isn't overheating, CPU idles at 33 loads at 42. I'll describe the problem a little better other than to just say it's freezing. When the freeze occurs, the entire screen stops moving, I cannot move my mouse, all sound stops working, and if there was a sound playing, it will get mutilated into a nasty buzz.
Pops Up Bluish-grey Trim?
Jul 2, 2008I had my nice sleek black color scheme for aero..I turn it on and now it's the blueish gray..I have a black task bar, where all my programs are displayed, but every program that pops up has a bluish grey trim... I don't get it. And when I go to personalize > windows color and appearance. I don't have the normal palette for colors, I have the theme chooser like they did for XP.
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How To Change The Star Rating
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Nov 11, 2008I installed this game in my pc with the cd, and everything ran perfect, I started the game and there was the intro video, after it ended, the game crashed, and the following message appears (it's in portuguese) in the error window.
Nome do Evento de Problema: APPCRASH
Nome do Aplicativo: Jk.exe
Versão do Aplicativo: 0.0.0.0
Carimbo de Data/Hora do Aplicativo: 34184993
Nome do Módulo de Falhas: Jk.exe
Versão do Módulo de Falhas: 0.0.0.0..and the screen fades, and I come back to my desktop with the error.
Star Wars: Game Did Not Load
May 15, 2010Let it be known. This is for the FIRST game. Not the second. When I start the game this happens. I restarted, tried it again. Same Error. I uninstalled it. Restarted. Installed under Win XP Service Pack. Same Error. I made sure the exe is under the Win XP Service Pack. Same Error. I even tried the "change the mss32.dll in the directory." Same Error. I did the built-in system scan in the game configure. It's not the best but it should still play.
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May 1, 2009I am working on a voice interpreter system in Visual Studio for a client's machine. They love Star Trek even more than I do and are wanting to use a huge host of verbal commands. I was wondering if anyone here has a good list or knows of a good place or two on the web I can go to geta list of commands that someone would state verbally toa computer on Star Trek? Or maybe a good computer engineering/windows-operations list of commands?
Affirmative
Negitive
Confirm
Detecting
Warning!
Alert!
Error!
Open
Close
Start
Reboot
Complete
Incomplete
Installing SP2 Will Not Star Windows Live Messenger
May 28, 2009So, installed SP2 and now the Windows Live Messenger will not start. All the other apps from Live work, but Messenger refuses. Anyone else found this?
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Mar 8, 2009I have a bat file that runs without errors on the command line. Uses robocopy to back up document drectory. The scheduler history states it started, action completed with an error code 16 (don't know what this means) and task successfully completed? But I do not think it is actually executing the bat file.
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Apr 6, 2010I have a Dell XPS M1710 notebook and just yesterday it started throwing bad fits at me. First of all, if I start my computer without an external monitor, the screen just blurrs completely and I have to shut it down. With the monitor, nothing happens, but I dont think its a laptop any more if it does this thing. That partially fixed, I too have the SVCHOST problem. I used the svchost analyzer and Security Task Manager, but all they show me is that I have around 7 Svchost processes and they only use 10-15% of CPU. Its very peculiar because I NEVER had this before and I have my laptop for around 3 years. Checked all instances, every svchost is in the Windows System folder, so I ruled out a svchost virus. However, even when I shut down almost everything else, still 90-100% CPU. I just cant understand it.
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I think it is something to do with a task to register my vaio or take part in a survey but I cannot get rid. It is in task scheduler local and there is no delete. I found a similar situation on the vaio site but cannot find now.Found it http://club.vaio.sony.eu/clubvaio/gb...7&lastpage=yes
Can't Download SP1 RC - Stops After 19%
Dec 27, 2007I followed the tut here -> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...ate-1-rc1.html
Got all the prereq installed. Then after waiting the 10-15, I acutally had dinner and came back started to d/l the SP. It got to 6% and stopped, sat there for a while and then failed with a code of 80070002. Click on the get help link and followed the instructions for clearing out the Software Distribution folder.
Then I checked for updates again. Did the same thing, stopped and failed at 6%. This time I clicked the 'Try Again' button. This time after hanging out for a while it went to 19%. But then it failed AGAIN! If I try again it just stays at 19%.
I figured that maybe the server is overwhelmed. It was 9pm EST or so. I tried again here at 5:15am figuring that most of the US is in a coma at this time. Same results.
Any ideas on how to get this SP? I'm plum out of ideas!
I'm down for anything, just to get this to work! Why did they have to change the way SP where handled? The d/l from a URL was just fine!
Sfc/scan Now - Stops At 76 %
Dec 31, 2009Problem: sfc/scannow stops at 76 %, gives no Info just that it can not
perform the requested operation
it started when I Restored the System to Factory Install with the Discs ( 2
Discs) sent to me by Acer by mail
SP 1 is already on the Discs, all Updates installed successfully, including
SP 2
Event Viewer shows some Errors but don't know witch are associated with the
sfc/scannow
Problem Reports and Solution (reports but no solution found)
1.-
Problem signature
Problem Event Name:WindowsWcpOtherFailure3
OsVersion:6.0.6001.18000:1
File:basewcpsilmergedtutsystem.cpp
Function:Windows::Rtl::SystemImplementation:irectFileSystemProvider::SysReadFileLine:1920
Status:c0000011
StackHash:0x563c8df4
OS Version:6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID:1033
2.-
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID:182505946
Problem signature
Problem Event Name:CbsPackageServicingFailure
Stack Version:6.0.6001.18000
Package:Package_for_KB973687~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.0.1.1
Status:80070026
Failure Source:Execute
Start State:Resolved
Target State:Installed
OS Version:6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID:1033
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID:769551469
I suspect that its related to the CBsPackageServicingFailure or both or more
don't know where to go from here
would really like to get sfc/scannow working Email with Acer America this Computer is still under Factory Warranty don't know what it covers, but they DON'T want me to return it to Store in Winnipeg where I purchased it don't know if I been screwed, this computer (LapTop) does Not have a Recovery partition, it has 1 disc C and 1 partition 232 GB (my Emachine Home Basic Desktop did have a Recovery Partition on D)
the Store made me set, 2 Discs after I complained and Acer sent me a set, 3.
Discs after some Emails already been at the store they are slick and have few answers , don't think I'll get far at the store.
Sfc /scannow Stops At 39%
Sep 17, 2009I am running Vista Home Premium x32 SP1 on a Dell XPS T8300@2.4 GHz. Whenever I try to run sfc /scannow it stops at either 39% or 69% ('Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation')and at the same time I get a pop-up message 'Windows modules installer stopped working and was closed'. I decided to run the sfc because yesterday morning I found my pc with a blue screen and the dreaded 'Windows has encountered a fatal error...' message. It booted successfully but I noticed several things (so far): all entries from System restore had disappeared, Windows updates had failed several times in the last 3 days trying to install Windows Vista SP2 (KB948465), and the 'uninstall/repair program' button in the control panel did not work (when I right-click over a highlighted program I only get two empty squares and no options). So I could not restore the system, could not update it and could not uninstall the most recent programs that might have caused the problem.
The next step was to do a repair install since I have the original Dell installation DVD for Vista SP1 but the upgrade was also unsuccessful - in the beginning of the installation I got a pop-up window with the message: setup.exe - Bad Image : C:Windowssystem32uniplat.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. I clicked 'Ok', the installation ran for about 1 1/2 hours and afterwards a message informed me that it was not successful and my system was being restored to its previous state.........
WMP Stops Working
Dec 29, 2008Just starting this afternoon whenever I go to view pictures, WMP stops working and shows this message:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: explorer.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6001.18164
Application Timestamp: 4907e791
Fault Module Name: PhotoViewer.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000.....
Stops In Outlook
Mar 23, 2008When I open outlook, vista stops running after a few minutes Whenever I work in Oulook safe mode there seems to be no problem. This started after I downloaded SP 1 Someone experience?
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Feb 19, 2009Greetings, I just formatted my new computer and when i try to play a dvd with WMP it loads the dvd and goes to a black screen and thinks for a moment, then a windows box pops up and says that WMP has stoped working,"we will look for a solution to this problem"
"This problem was caused by *NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller*,which was created by *NVidia*.
A newer version of this product is available that might solve this problem."
I believe that suggests that i reinstall my nvidia drivers, which i did, but it didnt work.
I have no codec packs installed either
Before the format everything worked perfect but i was having pop up problems and i think i had a virus of some sort.
HERE IS SOME MORE TECHNICAL INFO:
OS: Vista 32 Enterprise
Graphics card: EVGA 9800 GTX +
Product
Windows Media Player
Problem
Stopped working
Date
2/19/2009 7:42 AM
Status
More information available
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: wmplayer.exe
Application Version: 11.0.6000.6344
Application Timestamp: 46e5f12e
Fault Module Name: StackHash_5255
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdc9
Exception Code: c0000374
Exception Offset: 000af1c9
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.4
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 5255
Additional Information 2: a75fd876183f6f3219cdd8086d3ff68b
Additional Information 3: 9767
Additional Information 4: b9e147287e4dfdd53aff7aa96f91c5f1
Extra information about the problem
*Bucket ID: 529184598*
Clock Stops /ur Stopper
Sep 11, 2009I just got a new HP pavillion dv3 with vista home primium. But every time the computer went to sleep the clock and date stopped. I could not find out why, tried to remove sync with internet but nothing helped. But then we tried to correct the time and date ind bios and now it works Don't know why but it does. So if anyone else have the same problem I think it is worth trying.
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Can anybody recommend a solution? BTW, i am on an HP Pavilion dvt6846tx. Problem log from "Problem Reports and Solutions":Product Windows host process (Rundll32)
Problem
Stopped working .........
