Slow Startup due to a smc error Please Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

Please!!!!!!!!!!! Help m
I recently bought a sony vaio computer 2.8ghz,516 RAM,110G HD. It used to startup very fast, now it is kind of slow, searching in the event viewer , I noticed I have an error every time I turn the computer on, I double clicked it and it says “The mrtRate service failed to start due to the following error: the system cannot find the filed specifiedâ€
I looked up on the services page using services.msc but could not find this name, I made a search on this and nothing.I think I can probably solve this if I can disable that service from the startup, Can someone please tell me what to do
.. Your help will be much appreciated.
Thank you in advance Joel

This is a copy of the error messag
Event Type: Erro
Event Source: Service Control Manage
Event Category: Non
Event ID: 700
Date: 3/20/200
Time: 9:03:22 P
User: N/
Computer: JOE
Description
The mrtRate service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Please!!!!!!!!!!! Help me
I recently bought a sony vaio computer 2.8ghz,516 RAM,110G HD. It
used to startup very fast, now it is kind of slow, searching in the
event viewer , I noticed I have an error every time I turn the
computer on, I double clicked it and it says “The mrtRate service
failed to start due to the following error: the system cannot find
the filed specifiedâ€. I looked up on the services page using
services.msc but could not find this name, I made a search on this
and nothing.I think I can probably solve this if I can disable that
service from the startup, Can someone please tell me what to do? .
Your help will be much appreciated.
Thank you in advance
Joel

This is a copy of the error message
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 3/20/2004
Time: 9:03:22 PM
User: N/A
Computer: JOEL
Description:
The mrtRate service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Joel

Here is some information on this exact error message from EventID.net.

<quote>

Error: "The system cannot find the file specified." - Windows is trying to
start the "mrtRate" service at boottime. I got this error after installing
Quicken XG (Canadian Version of Quicken 2003). Get rid of the error by
disabling Quicken's Background Downloading Driver (you can always do manual
updates, and not waste ressources):
1) In Quicken, select Edit->Preferences->Customize Online Updates.
2) Click the Connection tab, then press Alt+Shift+4 (this command is NOT
indicated in the window).
3) Click OK to confirm that you do want to disable the driver.
4) Reboot.

<unquote>


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[Guest]

Ronnie, Thank you so much!!! Although my computer still does not startup as fast as it used to, I am not getting the smc error anymore. THANK YOU again.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Ronnie, Thank you so much!!! Although my computer still does not
startup as fast as it used to, I am not getting the smc error
anymore. THANK YOU again.

Joel

My pleasure.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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