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Solomon Grundy
A download of direct-soft inc's avi to mpeg 4 converter didn't work properly
and when it unistalled, seemed to screw up loads of Windows XP settings.
I've spent the last 6 hours trying to figure out what exactly it has done to
XP Pro.
I rebooted after uninstalling and XP demanded the product activation
sequence. It now runs very slowly - even after reactivation. System Restore
won't work at all. it's lost all sound and communications - even after
uninstalling and reinstalling all of the major hardware drivers. Basically,
the system's now so screwed up that I might end up buying a second hard
drive, installing XP on that before transferring all my documents (not the
settings) from the old hard drive to the new and then reinstalling all my
software plus the windows updates etc. It's really rather infuriating and a
darned good nail in the coffin of direct-soft inc (may they roast in the
flames of damnation evermore).
synmptoms:
1. Starting Internet Explorer causes XP to go into fault-reporting mode BUT
I can still open an html document. Clicking an html document opens IE and it
works!
2. dial-up. Sometimes I get told the phone book does not exist and other
times, it dials, logs on and hangs up.
3. toolbar. 90% of the stuff that should normally be in the toolbar just
isn't.
4. Volume - not now in the toolbar. I am informed there's no sound device
available yet sound was working before.
5. LAN. The networking box is empty yet should have connections to my server
and the phone line.
6. Start button - it's turned grey instead of green. The colour schemes all
seem to have vanished.
7. slow boot up. Slow from clicking my login to showing the desktop.
I've tried:
uninstalling hardware and rebooting. I've tried the AOL dialler and that
doesn't even connect. The modem does work. I'm using it on a windows 98
machine right now.
I had to re-activate XP Pro because it wouldn't let me do anything until I
had.
I can access all of my drives and my data. I just can't use the persihing
computer much because of no networking though. Any suggestions aside from
buying an Apple Mac next time?
and when it unistalled, seemed to screw up loads of Windows XP settings.
I've spent the last 6 hours trying to figure out what exactly it has done to
XP Pro.
I rebooted after uninstalling and XP demanded the product activation
sequence. It now runs very slowly - even after reactivation. System Restore
won't work at all. it's lost all sound and communications - even after
uninstalling and reinstalling all of the major hardware drivers. Basically,
the system's now so screwed up that I might end up buying a second hard
drive, installing XP on that before transferring all my documents (not the
settings) from the old hard drive to the new and then reinstalling all my
software plus the windows updates etc. It's really rather infuriating and a
darned good nail in the coffin of direct-soft inc (may they roast in the
flames of damnation evermore).
synmptoms:
1. Starting Internet Explorer causes XP to go into fault-reporting mode BUT
I can still open an html document. Clicking an html document opens IE and it
works!
2. dial-up. Sometimes I get told the phone book does not exist and other
times, it dials, logs on and hangs up.
3. toolbar. 90% of the stuff that should normally be in the toolbar just
isn't.
4. Volume - not now in the toolbar. I am informed there's no sound device
available yet sound was working before.
5. LAN. The networking box is empty yet should have connections to my server
and the phone line.
6. Start button - it's turned grey instead of green. The colour schemes all
seem to have vanished.
7. slow boot up. Slow from clicking my login to showing the desktop.
I've tried:
uninstalling hardware and rebooting. I've tried the AOL dialler and that
doesn't even connect. The modem does work. I'm using it on a windows 98
machine right now.
I had to re-activate XP Pro because it wouldn't let me do anything until I
had.
I can access all of my drives and my data. I just can't use the persihing
computer much because of no networking though. Any suggestions aside from
buying an Apple Mac next time?