Please help: Userenv registry unload error and the WebClient service?

[Daniel Vonboles]

Hello all,

My newly installed copy of Windows XP Professional on my computer in
my bedroom is not and probably will not be connected to a network at
any time in the near future. Thusly, I disabled networking services
and other services that I do not see that I will need.

Now I have a pretty trimmed down list of services running, just the
essentials that I need and can run without getting DCOM errors (I'll
probably be turning Net Connections, SENS, COM+ etc off too).

However, I frequently get a Userenv warning in Event Viewer about
unloading my registry: "Windows saved user WINNT\Administrator
registry while...". This error will stay around until I set WebClient
service to Automatic. However, if I restore services to their
Microsoft defaults, then subsequently disable WebClient, I do not seem
to get the warning, so I do not think it is WebClient stopping the
error, but something I have disabled causing it.

I have clean installed again to see if I did something wrong, but it
still seems to be there.

I have seen many of the people on the MS newsgroup to be very helpful
and knowledgable people, I only hope you can advise me with this!
Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers,

Daniel
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[Kelly]

Hi Daniel,

For some, it is related to SoundBlaster (Devldr32.exe). If this is the case
for you, install the latest drivers.

More info: If you also getting Event ID 1517:
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=1517&source=

And 1524:
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=1524&source=

 

[Daniel Vonboles]

Hi!

All I have installed on my XP system currently, is:

SiS AGP Driver
SiS Mini-IDE Driver
C-Media 973x Audio Codec
ATI Radeon 9200SE Drivers, Control Panel & hydravision
(Catalyst version 3.6 I believe)

I reinstalled (all services at default setting) and then disabled
WebClient, and there were no errors. But then I disabled other
"unnecessary" services (inc. WebC) and was getting the message again.
But I do not notice any drop in speed when shutting down. I decided
just to leave it disabled, unless anyone believes the unload error
causes a serious risk,

On another note, I now have only Plug And Play, RPC and Windows Audio
set to Automatic, and Cryptographic Services and Windows Installer set
to Manual. All other services are disabled.

I disabled Event Log because all I was getting was this error and
numerous DCOM errors for services I disabled (I am not using DCOM).
Disabling Event log has added maybe ten-fifteen seconds to my
boot-time ("Windows is starting up...") but I seem to be okay once in
Windows, and I have plenty free resources!

Is there any major drawback from getting this Userenv error, or having
Event Log disabled (aside from the extra startup time) ? I guess I
would be getting quite a few errors if I had the Log on (DCOM &
Userenv) but I know where the DCOM ones are coming from, and the
Userenv thing, no one seems to know much about, so Event Log doesn't
have anything new to offer me!

Thanks for your help!

Daniel
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