Windows fixes thread - Page 2

jeffy777 · November 24th, 2007, 8:36 PM

Yes, I know that now, but the thing is I've been using XP since it came out in 2001 and for some reason I never knew about it. It should really be on by default. So I just wanted to share in case others didn't know about it images/smilies/biggrin.gif

powah · November 24th, 2007, 9:44 PM

I have a problem, I recently got my new laptop and it had XP Pro on it. After a while, I decided to see what Vista was like on it so I loaded up Home Premium. However, stupid Acer's drivers were useless, so I couldn't use my massive video card. But now it really gets annoying. I decided that I really wanted to go back to XP pro but I have problems. Firstly, I tried to re-install XP the way I normally do, by inserting the XP disk at startup. I got to the setup screen, pressed enter, but then it said that it could not find any hard drives images/smilies/mad.gif

. I happen to have 2x160gb's! If i'm right, this is a widespread problem, all to do with drivers images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

. Oh, and I can run Vista in dos mode and then start the XP setup from there, that works fine until the computer restarts to complete the setup, then it goes into the blue screen of death.
Sorry about the long post, can anyone please help me?

Shenyang · October 17th, 2008, 5:45 PM

Here is a registry edit that creates an option in your folder options to hide and show the recycle bin on your desktop.

Windows XP only.

Just unzip and double-click it and it adds this option automatically without fiddling with the registry manually.

Download.

jetsetter · October 23rd, 2008, 12:47 AM

Well after many years of downloading shit my copy of Windows finally crapped out. Had to do a reinstall and it is amazing how fast it runs now.

SV · November 2nd, 2008, 9:10 PM

Here is my problem.. It is pissing me off.. Just copying my post from another forum so don't worry about the edit's in my post.

Basically i went to open up Outlook today to check my emails and when i clicked the program this error message came up.

"You need Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or later to use this feature. You can download the latest version of Internet Explorer from http://www.microsoft.com"."

Yesterday Outlook worked fine.. Today it doesn't want to work. (I have not changed/added/modified anything)

I use firefox but as far as i can remember I had IE7 installed due to it being a part of vista. I've tried reparing/reinstalling but nothing has changed.. Oh and also, I cannot install IE8 beta or do anything related to IE.

I've googled and tried to find answers and have had no luck. So I am here asking for some help from you guys images/smilies/smile.gif

Anyone know how to fix this?

EDIT – This problem seems to happen with other programs aswell.. Event Viewer, Computer management and some other administrative progs.

Also I just tried checking the version of internet explorer by going..
Help > About Internet Explorer
There is no version number listed!!!!

Also just checked in registry editor and i couldn't see a version number for IE listed there either.

matt2000 · November 2nd, 2008, 9:42 PM

Yeah that sounds like the registry, your machine doesn't know IE exists.

System restore is a good bet to get the registry back to normal, and as the only reason I can think of for it to be screwed up is an installation, you will have a restore point made before the installation started.

Another option is Regcleaner, which has an orphan file finder to sniff out 'broken links'. Not sure how good it is at that (never needed it), but it's free.

SV · November 3rd, 2008, 1:55 AM

System Restore doesn't work.. After the reboot I get a message saying something like Error, cannot restore system.

I gave RegCleaner and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary relating to IE.

Also tried using the vista disk to repair but outlook still didnt want to open due to IE and IE still didn't show its version number. Bah!

http://pic.phyrefile.com/a/an/anonymous/2008/11/03/NoVersionIE.jpg

http://pic.phyrefile.com/a/an/anonymous/2008/11/03/Msg.jpg

EDIT - YAY BLUESCREEN!!!111one images/smilies/sad.gif

goddammit

Hercules286 · November 14th, 2008, 12:30 PM

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

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cvrefugee · November 14th, 2008, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petarkb

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

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http://mail.google.com

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matt2000 · November 14th, 2008, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cvrefugee

Quote:

Originally Posted by petarkb

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

images/smilies/tongue.gif

http://mail.google.com

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http://www.mail2web.com/ images/smilies/banana.gif

SV · November 16th, 2008, 7:52 AM

Just so you know it wasn't Outlook's problem.. Alot of IE details were missing from the registry and I had to add them in. All problems are fixed now.

Just keep getting the occasional blue screen but I can live with that images/smilies/tongue.gif

IVIaster · July 23rd, 2009, 9:10 AM

When I start my Windows Vista, a program called "form 1" starts in backround and on the surface the only thing it does is a "click"-sound every now and then. What is it and how can I get rid of it?

Hercules286 · July 24th, 2009, 7:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IVIaster

When I start my Windows Vista, a program called "form 1" starts in backround and on the surface the only thing it does is a "click"-sound every now and then. What is it and how can I get rid of it?

Win+R
type msconfig, press enter.

It should be somewhere in the start-up tab.

IVIaster · July 24th, 2009, 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hercules286

Win+R
type msconfig, press enter.

It should be somewhere in the start-up tab.

Erm, the only thing in the start-up tab is the actaul Windows.

matt2000 · July 24th, 2009, 11:42 PM

That's odd, you should have a list of all the programs, the processes and the registry keys. Do you mean you can only see Windows programs?

IVIaster · July 26th, 2009, 8:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matt2000

That's odd, you should have a list of all the programs, the processes and the registry keys. Do you mean you can only see Windows programs?

Well those are in the programs tab, but can find any Form 1

Hercules286 · July 27th, 2009, 8:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IVIaster

Well those are in the programs tab, but can find any Form 1

That's because people don't call their programs (even the very buggy ones) Form 1.

matt2000 · August 24th, 2009, 10:00 PM

This is more for my own benefit than anyone else's, but I've been fighting with the email on my phone since I upgraded the ROM to WM 6.5 a few days ago. It just refused to send it via my Virgin Media account.

Anyway, I remembered why. I have to send it through the Orange SMTP server: smtp.orange.net with Authentication on.

There, I'll never forget now. images/smilies/smile.gif

IVIaster · September 10th, 2009, 9:26 PM

I just noticed that when I press Alt+scroll, the Form 1 shows up in the list and all I can make out of the small logo is that it reads HostingDu...

IVIaster · October 5th, 2009, 9:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IVIaster

I just noticed that when I press Alt+scroll, the Form 1 shows up in the list and all I can make out of the small logo is that it reads HostingDu...

Great, now its giving me popups

November 24th, 2007, 8:36 PM	#21
jeffy777 Joined: Feb 8th, 2005 Last Online: 5:00 AM Location: US Age: 28 Posts: 6,295 Car: '04 Toyota Sienna, crippled people like vans.... Rep Power: 91	Yes, I know that now, but the thing is I've been using XP since it came out in 2001 and for some reason I never knew about it. It should really be on by default. So I just wanted to share in case others didn't know about it __________________ A man named Jeffy once said, "If laziness is craziness, then I've lost my marbles...and I don't feel like trying to find them." Last edited by jeffy777; November 24th, 2007 at 8:47 PM.

November 24th, 2007, 9:44 PM	#22
powah Previously Known As powerof1000 Joined: Mar 13th, 2007 Last Online: November 1st, 2009 Location: New Zealand Age: 16 Posts: 1,253 Rep Power: 16	I have a problem, I recently got my new laptop and it had XP Pro on it. After a while, I decided to see what Vista was like on it so I loaded up Home Premium. However, stupid Acer's drivers were useless, so I couldn't use my massive video card. But now it really gets annoying. I decided that I really wanted to go back to XP pro but I have problems. Firstly, I tried to re-install XP the way I normally do, by inserting the XP disk at startup. I got to the setup screen, pressed enter, but then it said that it could not find any hard drives . I happen to have 2x160gb's! If i'm right, this is a widespread problem, all to do with drivers . Oh, and I can run Vista in dos mode and then start the XP setup from there, that works fine until the computer restarts to complete the setup, then it goes into the blue screen of death. Sorry about the long post, can anyone please help me? __________________

October 23rd, 2008, 12:47 AM	#24
jetsetter Joined: Dec 11th, 2005 Last Online: 5:16 AM Location: Most Serene Republic of California Posts: 5,742 Car: 1992 Toyota Pickup Rep Power: 76	Well after many years of downloading shit my copy of Windows finally crapped out. Had to do a reinstall and it is amazing how fast it runs now. __________________ "I saw myself founding a new religion, marching into Asia riding an elephant, a turban on my head and in my hands the new Koran I would have written to suit my needs." - Napoléon Bonaparte

November 2nd, 2008, 9:10 PM	#25
SV Previously Known As SLR 722 Joined: Feb 3rd, 2006 Last Online: November 20th, 2009 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 747 Car: '85 ZL Ford Fairlane Rep Power: 18	Here is my problem.. It is pissing me off.. Just copying my post from another forum so don't worry about the edit's in my post. Basically i went to open up Outlook today to check my emails and when i clicked the program this error message came up. "You need Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or later to use this feature. You can download the latest version of Internet Explorer from http://www.microsoft.com"." Yesterday Outlook worked fine.. Today it doesn't want to work. (I have not changed/added/modified anything) I use firefox but as far as i can remember I had IE7 installed due to it being a part of vista. I've tried reparing/reinstalling but nothing has changed.. Oh and also, I cannot install IE8 beta or do anything related to IE. I've googled and tried to find answers and have had no luck. So I am here asking for some help from you guys Anyone know how to fix this? EDIT – This problem seems to happen with other programs aswell.. Event Viewer, Computer management and some other administrative progs. Also I just tried checking the version of internet explorer by going.. Help > About Internet Explorer There is no version number listed!!!! Also just checked in registry editor and i couldn't see a version number for IE listed there either. __________________

November 2nd, 2008, 9:42 PM	#26
matt2000 Hedgehog Sandwich Joined: Feb 17th, 2006 Last Online: 2:26 AM Location: Meerkat Harborough, UK Age: 19 Posts: 5,616 Car: 1977 lol sprung Land Rover shed LFS Status: Rep Power: 101	Yeah that sounds like the registry, your machine doesn't know IE exists. System restore is a good bet to get the registry back to normal, and as the only reason I can think of for it to be screwed up is an installation, you will have a restore point made before the installation started. Another option is Regcleaner, which has an orphan file finder to sniff out 'broken links'. Not sure how good it is at that (never needed it), but it's free. __________________ Forza 3 Owners Club

October 17th, 2008, 5:45 PM	#23
Shenyang Joined: Oct 15th, 2008 Last Online: December 6th, 2008 Location: Shenyang, China Posts: 14 Car: VW Golf Mk2 GTI 16v Rep Power: 0	Here is a registry edit that creates an option in your folder options to hide and show the recycle bin on your desktop. Windows XP only. Just unzip and double-click it and it adds this option automatically without fiddling with the registry manually. Download.

November 3rd, 2008, 1:55 AM	#27
SV Previously Known As SLR 722 Joined: Feb 3rd, 2006 Last Online: November 20th, 2009 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 747 Car: '85 ZL Ford Fairlane Rep Power: 18	System Restore doesn't work.. After the reboot I get a message saying something like Error, cannot restore system. I gave RegCleaner and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary relating to IE. Also tried using the vista disk to repair but outlook still didnt want to open due to IE and IE still didn't show its version number. Bah! EDIT - YAY BLUESCREEN!!!111one goddammit __________________ Last edited by SV; November 4th, 2008 at 1:02 AM.

November 14th, 2008, 12:30 PM	#28
Hercules286 Previously Known As petarkb Joined: Feb 12th, 2007 Last Online: August 6th, 2009 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Posts: 1,663 Rep Power: 54	http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ __________________ It's called a floorstander, not a desktop. Get on with the times!

November 16th, 2008, 7:52 AM	#31
SV Previously Known As SLR 722 Joined: Feb 3rd, 2006 Last Online: November 20th, 2009 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 747 Car: '85 ZL Ford Fairlane Rep Power: 18	Just so you know it wasn't Outlook's problem.. Alot of IE details were missing from the registry and I had to add them in. All problems are fixed now. Just keep getting the occasional blue screen but I can live with that __________________

July 23rd, 2009, 9:10 AM	#32
IVIaster Not a dude. Joined: Dec 10th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Finland Posts: 738 Car: 1990 Volvo 740 Rep Power: 17	When I start my Windows Vista, a program called "form 1" starts in backround and on the surface the only thing it does is a "click"-sound every now and then. What is it and how can I get rid of it?

July 24th, 2009, 11:42 PM	#35
matt2000 Hedgehog Sandwich Joined: Feb 17th, 2006 Last Online: 2:26 AM Location: Meerkat Harborough, UK Age: 19 Posts: 5,616 Car: 1977 lol sprung Land Rover shed LFS Status: Rep Power: 101	That's odd, you should have a list of all the programs, the processes and the registry keys. Do you mean you can only see Windows programs? __________________ Forza 3 Owners Club

August 24th, 2009, 10:00 PM	#38
matt2000 Hedgehog Sandwich Joined: Feb 17th, 2006 Last Online: 2:26 AM Location: Meerkat Harborough, UK Age: 19 Posts: 5,616 Car: 1977 lol sprung Land Rover shed LFS Status: Rep Power: 101	This is more for my own benefit than anyone else's, but I've been fighting with the email on my phone since I upgraded the ROM to WM 6.5 a few days ago. It just refused to send it via my Virgin Media account. Anyway, I remembered why. I have to send it through the Orange SMTP server: smtp.orange.net with Authentication on. There, I'll never forget now. __________________ Forza 3 Owners Club

September 10th, 2009, 9:26 PM	#39
IVIaster Not a dude. Joined: Dec 10th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Finland Posts: 738 Car: 1990 Volvo 740 Rep Power: 17	I just noticed that when I press Alt+scroll, the Form 1 shows up in the list and all I can make out of the small logo is that it reads HostingDu...

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