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| | I have an HP pavilian 7965, with windows xp that takes about 1/2 hour to start up, then it doesn't or won't open any programs to run. I get a bunch of messages while it goes through the motions of starting up. One message is "DDL C:|WINDOWS|system32\wowfx.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette." I tried to use a memory stick to put some spyware removal programs on it but that doesn't go either. I tried to open the c drive but I get "not responding" message. How does one approch this issue to cure its ills? Thank you for helping in which ever way you can. |
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What happens if you try booting into "Safe Mode with Networking".
Reboot your computer into SAFE MODE using the F8 method.
To do this,restart your computer and after hearing your computer beep once during startup (but before the Windows icon appears) press the F8 key repeatedly.
A menu will appear with several options.
Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate and select the option to run Windows in "Safe Mode with Networking".
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| | ok, ty I did that and am able to move round now....I tried to load ad aware and spybot but neither would load . I get message "administrator has set policies to prevent this installation"...how do I go about loading these? or resetting the admin settings? thanks |
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| Click on Start/Run,type CMD then press OK
At the prompt type msiexec /unregister and press Enter.
At the prompt type msiexec /regserver and press Enter.
Type EXIT
If you have Hijackthis already installed,post a log into the Hijackthis Logs forum.
If not,download Trend Micro HijackThis 2.0.2 to your desktop:
Double click on HJTInstall.exe,it will prompt you to extract hijackthis.exe to C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis.
When the install is complete,HijackThis will automatically launch.
When the license agreement appears,select "I Accept" and then click on the "Do a system scan only" button.
When the scan is complete,click on the "Save Log" button,then save it to your desktop.
Copy and paste the entire contents of that log into a new topic in the HijackThis Logs forum, not here.
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| | Good morning....Well I did the register change, ok. Then I downloaded hijack this and it loaded ok. I went to run it and it goes about 90% and stops. I try to click any of the buttons on the HJ this screen and get a message "This action cannot be completed because the other application is busy. Choose "Switch To" to activate the busy application and correct the problem". Then to shut down hj this I do a "control, alt, delete' and close it via task manager. I also tried to load ad aware and it won't load, nor will spybot. Any ideas, please? TY Happy day...I tried it again and after a bunch of time it went through and finished the scan. I will post it in HJ this log posts as you requested. |
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| I've replied to your topic in the Hijackthis Logs forum.
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