I am having a problem on one of my PCs at work where I run an installer and it never appears! I have run a full AV scan and a full spyware scan and also HJT. ALl turned up nothing. Any suggestions because I almost have no hair left
View 5 RepliesHave a Dell E510 with Wind XP Home. Well meaning friend tried to speed it up by installing Firefox and deleting Internet Explorer. Managed to also delete WordPad and when I start up - a message box labeled "Windows Installer" appears with the note - "Preparing to Install." Notice goes away and I do whatever I need to do online. However I need to reinstall a printer and am getting the message that the installer is missing. How do I fix that.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI recently had a problem with my computer so I boot up my recovery cd. Soon everything was working fine and I installed some programs that I used to have. However, a few days ago, everything went weird again. (But in a different way before I used the recovery cd.)All the installers didn't work. They all had errors halfway through. They created empty folders in the program files and they can't be removed. Most things in the program files now can't be removed. I also can't install some other programs and the error messages were something like I didn't have access. But I was on the administrator account. I'm sure the installers weren't corrupted because one of them was the iTunes installer.. When even that couldn't be installed,
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need some major help here... basically one time i shut down my computer and tried to turn it back on, and though it was working fine before, it wouldn't load Windows. The error message said that the System32 folder was corrupted. However, it luckily started working after I put in a Windows xp cd and "repaired" from the cd. after that everything seemed to be working fine except one thing
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe folder for My Documents appears to be empty. If I open it, it basically looks like a blank folder. If I open properties>general for it, it shows that it takes up 0 bytes in size/size on disk, and it has "0 Files, 0 folders".
View 7 Replies View RelatedEverytime I open a folder of any kind and click on something this shortcut appears. If I click on this shortcut it says "Windows Script Host" There is no script file specified.
What is it and how can I stop it please? Its very annoying. The shortcut is a big "S" and on the bottom it has this written: .VBS;VBE;JS;JSE
The word Webcam appears on my screen then my browser(Chrome) starts and loads tab after tab of a webpage for Logitech webcams. Taps continue to load until chrome crashes. Only then can I regain control of Chrome and the computer. I've tried all the usual antispy tools but nothing finds what is causing this. I do have a wireless logitech keyboard and mouse.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have the Windows XP home edition operating system on my computer. Just recently when closing down a dialogue box appears with the text: "End Program - sprtmcd.exe" This goes through a little process then I select the "End Now" option and the computer closes down. This has to be done every time now. Everything else seems to be functioning normally as far as I can tell.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHello all firtst thanks for all the good advice i haved rec'd in the past. ie 7 decided to get me on the ms downloads my bad...went back to ie 6 via add/remove in ctl pnl worked fine now i'm at ie6. A dos window will appear on screen and attempt to download pages to my printer. The name on the window is "C:WINDOWSTEMPWIN3E3-1.EXE. it can only be closed using the end task screen.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy wife brought home a computer from work that was no longer needed. Everything started normally, ran well, but then after updating windows the log on screen appears and now needs a password. Any ideas?
View 3 Replies View Relatedwhenever i start my system the lang. bar appears in the taskbar and i have to right -click taskbar, go into toolbars and unselect the language bar. im convinced it's a bug. and it's driving my crazy. how can i fix this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI get a folder appear each time I start my win XP laptop. It appears on the desktop and has the name of a folder I have deleted a few months ago that was full of mp3 files.
View 2 Replies View RelatedFor some reason the SYSTEM32 folder keeps appearing on the desktop at startup. Any ideas what I can do about this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedXP Professional has been running fine for years and now it won't shut down, it hangs at the screen. The only way to turn it off is with the power button. I tried to do a restore but when it gets to the point of restart the system won't shut down and the restore fails. I have McAfee installed and have scanned three times with no problems found.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIve got this really annoying pop up that comes on when i switch on my PC (Windows XP)It's one of those long thin ones with 4 boxes ..insurance ,pharmacy.etc.It can be closed but i cant get rid of it.When i right click to find out where it's located nothing happens so i don't know what to try next?.I've run Spybot,Ad-Aware,Microsoft Beta,AVG,Mcafee but none of them seem to be able to pick up on it ?This comes on even when i'm not on the internet.
I have been getting the bsod which freezes my computer frequently with Windows XP Home Edition using Service Pack 2.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhen I turn on my computer a little window{1&half inches} appears with a red circle with a cross through it and my computer makes those nasty noises.The box just shows the sign and has and ok box and thats it.Can anyone tell me what it means and if I have to do anything.
View 11 Replies View Relatedwindows installer keeps asking me to install something I don't want installed!
how do I stop this,and where do I look
I lob this outta the window Im running a windows xp desktop and having troubles when trying to play yahoo games,after downloading java i had two probs one was i was running in safe mode,im now out of safe mode and running the comp normally the other thing was it says i might need to do is run windows installer again. heres where i have the problem! where or how do i run windows installer? im using firefox
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhen I try to download some programs I get a message that says "windows installer could not be accessed. Contact your support personnel to verify thay the windows installer is properly registered."
View 1 Replies View RelatedFirst, my notebook has been working normally until yesterday afternoon. Windows XP Home Edition was installed by the manufacturer and was working properly. But yesterday, when I started up and logged on to my computer, and everytime since, Windows Installer automatically launches. It gives the message something like: "wait while Windows configures Windows XP." Then the installer asks me to to insert the Windows XP CD, which of course I don't have since Windows XP was factory installed on this notebook. I cancel the process and everything seems to work normally. Is there a way I can stop this from happening?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWindows XP I downloaded iTunes ages ago and cant reinstall it as I cant remove the old version. I have tried everything removed all files and folders containing Apple iTunes Quick Time ect. but it is still in Add Remove and when i try to remove it I get the message " The feature you are trying to is on a network source that is on available" " Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the instillation package Apple Application Support.msi in the box below"The instillation source for this product is not available, verify the sauce exists and that you can access it" I down loaded CClean and tried ot remove them but I got Cant Remove MSI Installer.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to install a bunch of different things, and they all seem to be failing, they all start up, but then crash when the actual installation part begins. It will say something like "Preparing to install" then give me an error.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI try to install something and it tells me
The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe
mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance.
I tried registering the msiexec.exe file and it said that an event was unable to invoke any of the subscribers.
One of the users on my PC does not have the My Documennst folder appearing the list "Files stored on the this computer".it is just a registry tweak
I regularly put my laptop into hibernation rather than shutting down.
Until recently all worked OK.
However, suddenly, when resuming windows the BSOD appears. After switching off then on again, I have to delete the resume data and boot from scratch.
First i tried to boot from disk and then it told me that i dont even have a hard drive installed. I fixed this problem by pressing F6 when my windows cd was booting up and now it loads some RAID drivers off from a floppy disk i made up so that the HDD is there.
Just as some other posts have mentioned, i did not try the recovery console and went straight into setting up windows. When it asks me to choose a partition. I selected the one that i created when i built my computer (the one i have very valuable files on) and from there it gives me the "blue screen of death" or so my friend used to call it...the one that says the computer has been shut down to prevent damage to my computer.
Any ideas?
Also, with no other ideas i went into the recovery console... it asks something around "on what volume do you want to recover"...so i press the number 1 which is drive C then from there goes to the blue screen again.
Another thought i ran across is that the disk i am trying to use is a windows xp home and i set up my computer with xp pro....i seem to have lost the disk!!! Im hoping that's not the reason for the blue screen.
Thanks a lot!
I am in a desktop administration class and I have been given a question I can't seem to find an answer for.PC appears to be booting in Safe Mode, however it is not. What is the likely problem?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSo, my boyfriend a Toshiba Satellite A105-S4334 that is running XP Media Center 2002. This morning he woke up and it wouldn't finish booting. It POSTs, it sees the hard drive and the operating system. But as soon as the XP logo appears, the computer reboots. we turned off automatic reboot and got the following error:
STOP: 0x0000007B(0xF78AE524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
We cannot boot into safe mode, last known good configuration, cds, or USB, and we don't have a floppy drive.
we have tried an XP installation cd, a media center installation cd, and hirens bootcd, and it wont boot into any of them.
I'm running WinXP Home (SP2). Whenever I reboot, the language toolbar appears in the task bar. I remove it but it shows up again when I reboot. Is there any way to keep it from reappearing?
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