Win98- XP Home upgrade minor issues

[Gary I.]

Well, I upgraded my system Sunday. I'm happy with the result. Lurking in
this group taught me the preparation necessary and everything went very
well.

The first issue was lass.exe unexpected error. However, I corrected this
by steps at-
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser_printxp.mspx

At the end of the routine I ran the Sasser scan which found no virus.
Although I have no virus, the problem is corrected by creating the log
files (temporarily remove the vulnerability) or turning on the XP
firewall. Please explain this situation I encountered. It is resolved
but I don't understand the reason it occurred?

Another issue relates to my USB Wireless Intellimouse Explorer. At
start-up, I get-- point32.exe Ordinal not found. Some of the mouse
features are inoperative. The upgrade report (Software that must be
reinstalled) listed intellipoint 4.x as a problem. I have downloaded and
installed Intellipoint 4.12, the latest, but the problem continues. Any
suggestions as to how I can resolve this problem are welcome. Thank You.

This is off subject, I installed System Works 2005. The System Works
Status screen (main window) shows D: free space but does not reflect the
status of C:??? If anyone can help with this one too, my thanks!





Asus P2B-f slot 1(440Bx chipset) 1014 beta2 BIOS
PIII 850 mhz with IWILL II sloket adapter
512mb PC100 ECC memory
20 gb IDE Western Digital 7200 rpm
SD-M1202 IDE DVD/CD ROM
Adaptec AHA2940U2W SCSI controller
18.4gb Seagate 7200 rpm SCSI hard disk (LVD Ultra2 wide--80mb sec)
Plextor PX-W 124TS SCSI CDRW 12/4/32 (Ultra--20mb sec)
Geforce2 Ti 64mb DDR AGP video adapter (VisionTek Xtasy 5864)
SoundBlaster Live Value PCI soundcard
USR 5610 PCI modem

 

[Rock]

Gary I. wrote:

Another issue relates to my USB Wireless Intellimouse Explorer. At
start-up, I get-- point32.exe Ordinal not found. Some of the mouse
features are inoperative. The upgrade report (Software that must be
reinstalled) listed intellipoint 4.x as a problem. I have downloaded and
installed Intellipoint 4.12, the latest, but the problem continues. Any
suggestions as to how I can resolve this problem are welcome. Thank You.

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For the point32.exe issue do some reading here (it was a long url so I
made it tiny): http://tinyurl.com/62c26

 

[Gary I.]

Gary I. wrote:



<snip>

For the point32.exe issue do some reading here (it was a long url so I
made it tiny): http://tinyurl.com/62c26

Thanks for the input. I've determined the reason for the point32.exe
problem. SystemWorks 2005 detects a registry error that, if repaired by
WinDoctor, causes the problem. I never allow the automatic repair but
some way it must have happened-- click happy. I reloaded the v4.12 mouse
driver and ran WinDoctor. The registry scan detected one problem. I
selected manual repair. There I saw the point32 related registry entry.
As a test I repaired it again. The next restart had the same error
message and inoperative mouse buttons. I restored from a point created
before the registry fix-- confirmed WinDoctor as the culprit.
I've utilize various versions of Norton Utilities since MSDOS 5.0. I'm
having some second thoughts this time...
Thank you for the help. I shall follow the link anyway.

 

[Rock]

Thanks for the input. I've determined the reason for the point32.exe
problem. SystemWorks 2005 detects a registry error that, if repaired by
WinDoctor, causes the problem. I never allow the automatic repair but
some way it must have happened-- click happy. I reloaded the v4.12 mouse
driver and ran WinDoctor. The registry scan detected one problem. I
selected manual repair. There I saw the point32 related registry entry.
As a test I repaired it again. The next restart had the same error
message and inoperative mouse buttons. I restored from a point created
before the registry fix-- confirmed WinDoctor as the culprit.
I've utilize various versions of Norton Utilities since MSDOS 5.0. I'm
having some second thoughts this time...
Thank you for the help. I shall follow the link anyway.

Great, glad you got it fixed. Yes many of the folks in here, when asked
the question about should I use a registry cleaner recommend no, one
reason being what you have experienced. And for sure the automatic mode
should be avoided. Thanks for posting back so others can see the
resolution.