can not find file error

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Poking through the large amounts of available messages,
I see lots of references to the now familiar "can not
find file or component" error messages.

Am I correct in assuming that there is no solution yet?

To recap:

-From the start menu, Run, "notepad.exe".
-Notepad starts as expected.
-Immediately followed by the "cannot find file notepad.exe (or one
of its components)" error.
-Using a fully qualified path makes no difference.

This has been happening for me since day one after the clean install
of the OS. Reinstalling the OS did not help. Normally this is just
an annoyance, but some install programs like to launch programs in the
middle of the install and actually check the return codes. (Normally
this checking is a good thing, but not when the OS lies to it.)

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Joseph Kiernan
Seattle, WA
 
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From: Joseph_K <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Subject: can not find file error
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 20:45:43 -0700

Poking through the large amounts of available messages,
I see lots of references to the now familiar "can not
find file or component" error messages.

Am I correct in assuming that there is no solution yet?
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I would recommend running Filemon (free download from www.sysinternals.com)
to see what process is trying to access the file.


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From: Joseph_K <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Subject: Re: can not find file error
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 21:31:03 -0700

Good stuff there at sysInternals.

See the log from filemon at
http://www.nwlink.com/~josephk/filemon/log.txt

Anything in particular I should be looking for?
Nothing obvious is standing out.

-- Joseph_K
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Basically, I would be looking for any kind of "file not found" in regards
to notepad.exe...in hopes of finding out which application is calling it.


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~~ JASON HALL ~~
~ Performance Support Specialist,
~ Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support
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