A friend's dell laptop with xp home wasn't booting up. There was a corrupted
hive file and config file, which were "fixed" using recovery console.

Now xp will boot up, but he first error message is:

"Wireless Configuration: Notification dll has not been registered, program
will not work correctly."

If you click ok, you can enter xp, but any program you try to start returns
error message:

"Problem with Shortcut: This action is only valid for products that are
currently installed."

So, it appears that after fixing Hive and config, the computer doesn't
recognize any of the programs.

Suggestions??

Wipe & reload.

confusedbydll wrote:
> A friend's dell laptop with xp home wasn't booting up. There was a
> corrupted
> hive file and config file, which were "fixed" using recovery console.
>
> Now xp will boot up, but he first error message is:
>
> "Wireless Configuration: Notification dll has not been registered, program
> will not work correctly."
>
> If you click ok, you can enter xp, but any program you try to start
> returns
> error message:
>
> "Problem with Shortcut: This action is only valid for products that are
> currently installed."
>
> So, it appears that after fixing Hive and config, the computer doesn't
> recognize any of the programs.
>
> Suggestions??

Found the solution: turns out I had only completed half of the recovery.
Still had to manually move the restore point config files back into the
active config folder. That did the trick. (windows doc explains process:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us)

But, I've spent several hours doing this and could have reformatted and
reinstalled xp twice by now.....the only consolation is that I can recover a
few files that would have been lost (my friend wisely backs up her files
regularly, so most are safely stored away).

Thanks

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Wipe & reload.
>
> confusedbydll wrote:
> > A friend's dell laptop with xp home wasn't booting up. There was a
> > corrupted
> > hive file and config file, which were "fixed" using recovery console.
> >
> > Now xp will boot up, but he first error message is:
> >
> > "Wireless Configuration: Notification dll has not been registered, program
> > will not work correctly."
> >
> > If you click ok, you can enter xp, but any program you try to start
> > returns
> > error message:
> >
> > "Problem with Shortcut: This action is only valid for products that are
> > currently installed."
> >
> > So, it appears that after fixing Hive and config, the computer doesn't
> > recognize any of the programs.
> >
> > Suggestions??
>
>