Mir meant you need to extend the registry to get to the Desktop and click on
to see the entries in the right pane one of them or the second is the
"AutoEnd Task", your key will look like this:
[-]HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop= in the right pane look for the
entry from the top labled/called "AutoEnd Tasks" after "ActiveWndTrkTimeout".
Make the changes and Close the registry editor and reboot your machine,
report back your findings.
Here is my take on this:
If you get Memory Cannot be read or written. As the name refer to, it is a
memory problem, some applications/programs
didn't release the memory in timely fashion causing the Error to be thrown by
the system error reporting tools.
Also it could be the work of malwares, badly written application installed
on your system including third party toolbars installed beside Internet
explorer, do you have other toolbars installed try to uninstall them, memory
gone bad or loose in their slots/dust also can cause this.
1... First, try to clean up your caches, Internet files and delete cookies
by doing this:
Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options.
On the IE properties windows you will see these Taps:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |
Advanced
Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non
Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the
culprit and update it or remove it.
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
Scan for malware from here:
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm
Run disk clean up and check disk on start up.
User Profile Hive Cleanup Servic
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
Download this tool to clean the orphans:
http://www.ccleaner.com
Please select custom install and deselect which option you don't want to
install.
Open a Notepad, customize or minimize to the taskbar as you will need it
later for this step to copy the error message on it.
Open a run command and type in:
eventvwr.msc click [OK] you will get the Event viewer control Panel.
click on each of these:
Application
System
Security
Look in the right Pane/window for error message with red (X) or Yellow
exclamation mark /!\ , double click each one to get more info about the
causer.
On the Event error properties message you will see:
Up Arrow
Down arrow
Two pages
Click on the two pages to copy the error message then bring up the Notepad
you opened earlier and right click on the first line and select Paste from
the list, this will paste the error message on a Notepad.
Please don't duplicate the error message one of each kind will be sufficient.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
Please we need just the error messages with Red (X) and don't repeat the
error, just one of each kind and post them back in your next post.
How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353
3... You may have a bad RAM try to test your RAM by running Memtest by
downloading this tool and unzip it and make a floppy or CD/DVD and run it on
Reboot.
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp.
You may need to reposition/reset the RAM sticks in their slots.
HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass
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http://www.nasstec.co.uk
VeryBusyMom said:
I was doing fine, until I got to Step 4. I found the Desktop in the left
pane, but couldn't find the "AutoEnd Tasks" value to double click. Did I do
something wrong?
Someone else also suggested downloading a free registry cleaner to clean up
pieces of previously uninstalled programs that didn't fully uninstall. How
safe are these and would this help with my problem.
Finally, does it hurt to have this error pop up everytime I log off? It
just seems to be a nusance, but will it harm my system? Thanks!
Mir Mehdi said:
1. Click "Start" and click "Run".
2. In the Open box, type "Regedit" (without quotation marks) and press Enter.
3. Navigate to the following registry key by expanding the "+" beside the
registry
tree in the left pane:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
Note: right click on "Desktop", click "Export", and then save it to the C:\
drive
as a backup. (In case we need to undo the modification, we can double click
it to
restore the registry key)
4. Highlight Desktop in the left pane and double click the value
"AutoEndTasks" in
the right pane.
5. Set the value from 0 to 1.
6. Exit Registry Editor and restart the computer to test this issue.
Let me know what happens and does this fix it.
--
Mir Sajjad Mehdi
Microsoft XP Platform Support
VeryBusyMom said:
Hello! Hopefully someone can help me with this problem. On one of my
computers, which has Windows XP, I get the following message almost everytime
I log off:
"Instruction at 0X02d51611 referenced memory at 0X02d51611. The memory
could not be read." Click ok to terminate. Click cancel to debug.
What does this mean and how can I fix this problem? When I click either
option, it automatically logs off with no problems. What could be causing
this error message to pop up almost everytime I try logging off?
Any suggestions are much appreciated. Thank you.
