Posts by goldeagle2005

That's exactly the point of Beta software - it's supposed to be for TESTING purposes to be used by people who want to help in cleaning out bugs. It's not supposed to be used in a production environment. If you do use it in a production environment, you should be prepared for the ramifications once the beta expires. No one is going to give you a copy of the OS for free. Besides, beta software has a lot of unneeded files which would slow your system in comparison to the final release.

Long live my corporate MSDN subscription :D

My personal worst horror story regarding bundling, and it's a very common horror story, is the bundling of my laptop with Vista Home when I bought it two or three years ago. Vista was new, I didn't want it and I definitely didn't want Vista HOME, but I had absolutely no choice in the matter. Everything in the store had Vista on it so it wasn't like I could buy a different laptop. Vista, at that time, hadn't worked out the kinks yet to say the least. I couldn't install XP since there were and I think still are no drivers for it for this laptop. You don't get a Vista Home disk with the laptop. You get a System Restore disk, which is bundled with all of the Microsoft special offers, stuff like that, so you have to uninstall all that junk. You CAN'T uninstall Internet Explorer even if it's corrupted, I don't think, which mine is. Ditto with Windows Exlorer and Windows Media Player, I believe, which is constantly crashing. Etc., etc. I don't know if it's the fact that I don't have the plain old Vista disk but instead have the System Restore disk. End result is the laptop came bundled with a (at that time) new OS that I don't want to use and which was constantly crashing and I had no way to change to XP. I suppose I could have changed it to Linux. And I can't simply completely uninstall the programs I don't …

My personal worst horror story regarding bundling, and it's a very common horror story, is the bundling of my laptop with Vista Home when I bought it two or three years ago. Vista was new, I didn't want it and I definitely didn't want Vista HOME, but I had absolutely no choice in the matter. Everything in the store had Vista on it so it wasn't like I could buy a different laptop. Vista, at that time, hadn't worked out the kinks yet to say the least. I couldn't install XP since there were and I think still are no drivers for it for this laptop. You don't get a Vista Home disk with the laptop. You get a System Restore disk, which is bundled with all of the Microsoft special offers, stuff like that, so you have to uninstall all that junk. You CAN'T uninstall Internet Explorer even if it's corrupted, I don't think, which mine is. Ditto with Windows Exlorer and Windows Media Player, I believe, which is constantly crashing. Etc., etc. I don't know if it's the fact that I don't have the plain old Vista disk but instead have the System Restore disk. End result is the laptop came bundled with a (at that time) new OS that I don't want to use and which was constantly crashing and I had no way to change to XP. I suppose I could have changed it to Linux. And I can't simply completely uninstall the programs I don't …

The bashing is understandable, IMO. People need to vent. In my experience, most peoples' main beefs with Microsoft are the monopolies/anti-trust/bundling issues, which all boil down to people feeling they are being FORCED to use a Microsoft product rather than being allowed to CHOOSE the product they want to use. Thus even when Microsoft comes out with a good product, that backlash and smoldering rage is there and people are unwilling/unable to judge the individual product simply on its merits.

I still haven't understood the whole "bundling issue" debate. If someone is bundling a browser with their OS, what's wrong with that? If a person wants to use Firefox, they'll simply install it on the OS and use it despite having IE on the system. I know a lot of novice computer users who switched to FF simply because they had read somewhere that it was better than IE. They were in no way wavered by the fact that the system came preinstalled with IE. They just used FF because they wanted to. What's the problem here?

I would agree with kanineplus. Also, I was under the assumption you were talking about Internet Explorer, not Windows Explorer. I would suggest running a hard drive diagnostic before you reinstall the OS.

Excellent. Issue resolved

It's inetcpl.cpl. You missed the last 'l'

Type it in the "Start Search" box

Okay. Go to Start > Run, type inetcpl.cpl and click OK. See if that bring up Internet Options

dxgmms1.sys is the file at fault here. A search revealed this to be a fille associated with the graphics card. I would

• Update the drivers
• Run any GFX card diagnostics provided
• Update DirectX

See if this helps.

Oooh... my bad. Go to Control Panel > Internet Options. Click the Advanced tab and then click reset and confirm. See if that helps

I must say that you have followed a very logical course of action. I would however like to mention that considering that the exact same issue occured on two different drives, I would definitely not root this as a software problem. Or even a problem with the hard drive/controller. A few of your points in your previous post caught my attention

Letting the machine continuously power off and on up to 50 times until it finally reboots

and

Wrapping it in blankets and letting it continually restart until it boots

would seem to imply that the system fan is probably not spinning properly. My thinking is that when you do either of these steps, the unit heats up and causes the fan sensor to try and spin the fan at max speed and the fan starts spinning. When this happens, the unit cools down enough to POST (I'm going to say POST as I classify this issue as No POST rather than no Boot) and work as normal. When you put the system to sleep/hibernate, the temperature is lowered and the fan would cut out and not start up again until it receives full power. This would seem to imply an issue with the fan itself - it does not spin at all when it should be spinning at low speeds, only spins at high speeds

Putting it in the refrigerator and then restarting it after it is really cooled down

Blowing into the fan opening while restarting

I've seen similar issues on systems with an ATI video card. Try to disable all ATI startup items and services using msconfig and see if that helps.

After you rule out any possibility of viruses, try to reser IE. Go to Tools > Internet Options, click the Advanced tab and then click reset and confirm. Now try IE and post back what happens

I've come across this issue a few times on Dell systems and each time I've reported this to tech support, they've replaced the motherboard (systems were in warranty) without any troubleshooting whatsoever (which Dell loves to do over the phone). I'm guessing the motherboard is shot.

or you could go to Start > Run and type in control userpasswords2. ON the next screen, uncheck the "Users must enter a user name and password to use the computer" checkbox and click Apply. On the next popup, enter the username and password of the account you want to use and click OK. Windows will now not present the log on screen and will log you in to the specified account.

You sure the file name listed on the error is dxgmmsi.sts? 0xD1 codes generally signify a corrupt driver. A search for dxgmmsi.sts did not pull up any results. Could you double check and post back?

... or in IE6, you could open another window (CTRL+N)

Skittles!

Yeah, I had the same problem, though this was McAfee Security Center. I switched to Avast and that works fine. I've also tried Norton 2009 - works perfectly.

Known issue with Vista. Try this:

Reboot the computer into safemode with networking and login as an Administrator
Open registry editor
Navigate to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentUser\Profile List\
Please check for the folders that starts with S-1-..
Identify the your profile name by checking each of the S-1-.. and look on the right side under ProfileImagePath key to find the profile name.
The folder which contains your name under ProfileImagePath will have .bak in the end.
There will an identical folder with the same S-1-.. with the ProfileImagePath as temp
Rename the Identical folder
Remove the .bak on your folder name
Reboot the computer .

Agreed with Chris. Seems like an issue with the MBR being corrupted. One thing with a dual boot scenario is that the older OS is installed first. Try this: Boot to the Recovery Console from the XP CD, type fixmbr, followed by fixboot C: and fixboot D: - this will knock the Vista Bootloader off the system. Next, install XP on D: after reformatting it. Once this is done, your system should be able to boot to XP directly, but Vista will not be bootable (the files will still be there). Next, reboot using the Vista DVD and install it on C:. I recommend you backup your data and then reformat C: using the Vista setup process. When the system reboots, you should have your dual boot setup.

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Hey, I love Vista. In fact, I've been tinkering around with Alpha releases of Longhorn as well. You have to understand a new product will have bugs - same as happened with XP when it first came out. That said, I have to agree with fishsqzr when he says that

....an upgrade to be a system which provides more capability that the previous version, does not discontinue any useful capabilities of the previous version, it at least as stable as the previous version, and is at least as easy to use as the previous version.

Let's see how Vista turns out eventually.

Fanta. YUM!

Well, have you tried renaming the Administrator account?

Well, I just got my hands on a new Vista box and I've setup an internal portal. However, I'm not able to find the IIS logs. Any idea where I can find them? The system32\logfiles folder does not have them, neither does the Event Viewer. Am I missing something here?

The Windows file is named rundll32.exe and not run.dll32.exe (note the lack of a . in the Windows file)

Almonds

Same here. I have a Dell Inspiron 530 w/ 4GB RAM and a 2x250GB hard drives. System works beautifully.

Rusks

It's been said before and I'll reiterate: Supervisors.

(Had to get that off my head. My super was a real moron today!)

I believe that to be spam.

XP IS being removed. XP support is NOT being offered through Microsoft anymore.

This website here shows that support for Windows XP Pro will end on 14th April 2009.

Slowly being phased out, maybe. But you would also know that XP SP3 is due in the second quarter of '08. XP support will be around for some time now. Besides, Dell for one IS offering computers with XP. Verify your facts before making any such claims.

I can understand your pain there. I've had that happen to me. sheeesh

People who use the phrase "I told you so" when in fact they didn't.

Water

poor rope

I concur with Chris. If indeed you have the same problem in Safe Mode, you're left with little choice except for a reinstall. However, one thing I can suggest is to check to see if there were any Windows Updates installed around the time the problem started. If yes, try removing then from Programs andFeatures (from Task Manager, launch "control appwiz.cpl" to get to Vista's Programs and Features module)

Also, make sure you have installed the correct chipset drivers.

Your problem and it's description are unclear. Could you please start from the beginning and explain what the problem is in detail?

Chicken fried rice with scrambled eggs.

Just a black screen or a black screen with a mouse pointer (arrow)? If it's the latter, you can open Task Manager by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-ESC.

Nothing at the mo'. Chicken sandwiches and beer in an hour. WOOOOT

> Yes, Praise God. That's incredible.
Yes, praise the wheelchair.

Heh. Good one.

Any idea what codec these files use? DivX, XviD? Try installing these codecs on the other machine and then try playing the files.

Also try running diagnostics on the memory.

Can you start the system in Safe Mode? I'm guessing the overheating may have fried the graphics card. If you can get to safe mode, uninstall the GFX drivers and reboot normally. If it starts normally, reinstall drivers and see what happens. Revert back with the results.