can't log on - registry messed up

I know that these issues have been addressed in different posts, but I'm having a hard time putting it all together and hope you don't mind revisiting this. Satellite P205-S7476 / Vista / I have no recovery or boot disks Hx: I messed up! I was ...

Message posted on the October 17th, 2009 - 2:07 PM ET

Unable to find registry key

My computer crashed. I bought a new one and am trying to install my old version of Office Home and Student 2007. Before doing so I tried to uninstall the trial version that I had been using. It would not uninstall so I tried the Microsoft manual ...

Message posted on the August 19th, 2009 - 5:08 PM ET

Messed up editing registry, need previous values

I'm running WinXP Pro, SP2. I messed up while trying to remove a trojan with instructions in an article from Symantec. Article said to remove changes in a list of registry keys, if required. Some of the keys in my registry had the same value as on ...

Message posted on the June 22nd, 2009 - 8:18 PM ET

Messed up GIMP trying to Upgrade to 2.7

Hopefully someone knows this! I tried to upgrade my GIMP from 2.6 to 2.7. I got a dependency error. The OS suggested I try install with -f. Now GIMP won't load. Is this fixable, or an uninstall and start over situation? Thanks! Here's my ...

Message posted on the November 13th, 2011 - 2:26 PM ET

Adding new hardware icon shows up after a registry rollback?

I'm confused about this, and was hoping somebody could help me understand what is going on: I aborted an Acronis image restore operation of my system drive prematurely, (leaving my C: in disarray, naturally), but then using the Acronis boot disk, ...

Message posted on the June 15th, 2011 - 4:50 PM ET

Fixing up messed up permissions on C:

Hello, I have Windows XP Professional SP3, and I just found out almost all my permissions on C: got messed up. I would like to know if there is some way to easily change them all. (I suppose it’s impossible to recover their original state.) ...

Message posted on the January 17th, 2009 - 5:44 AM ET

Fixing up messed up permissions on C:

Hello, I have Windows XP Professional SP3, and I just found out almost all my permissions on C: got messed up. I would like to know if there is some way to easily change them all. (I suppose it’s impossible to recover their original state.) ...

Message posted on the January 17th, 2009 - 5:44 AM ET

Fixing up messed up permissions on C:

Hello, I have Windows XP Professional SP3, and I just found out almost all my permissions on C: got messed up. I would like to know if there is some way to easily change them all. (I suppose it’s impossible to recover their original state.) ...

Message posted on the January 17th, 2009 - 2:00 AM ET

Registry Cleaning?

I am reading in this NG and all over the internet that cleaning the registry is a no, no. I am also informed that the registry can/does get all messed up/cluttered with all sorts of stuff, from removed programs, old pointers, etc, over time. So ...

Message posted on the November 27th, 2009 - 1:40 AM ET

Slow DSL download speed, plus Restore Point question.

I'm sorry this is so long. It started out very short. :-( Hi, I have low download speeds on my Verizon DSL connection with XP Pro SP3. Low speed test results near the bottom, after my questions. . My speed should be at least 2.5 times as ...

Message posted on the December 8th, 2011 - 10:35 AM ET

Path problem

I recently changed the partitioning between C and D with Partition Magic 8 to allow for more installed program space. The paths to WordPad were lost. I have been able to get it to work in the start menu but cannot make it run from the Start/Run box ...

Message posted on the October 26th, 2011 - 2:49 PM ET

[Samba] Intermittent "Delayed Write Failed" when writing to Office 2007's "Recent Files" index.dat on a network share

This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="enig14BB7006940B19C486DFCEBB" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) We're in the process of ...

Message posted on the May 10th, 2011 - 10:00 AM ET

Restore touchcalibration

Hi, We have an ARM system running CE6.0R2. RAM Based registry with touchscreen. During boot a driver loads touchcalibration from a file and sets it in registry. After that the touch-driver loads, and uses the settings from registry. All worked fine ...

Message posted on the November 3rd, 2009 - 8:36 AM ET

Some Windows Apps Behaving Like Drunken Toy Soldioiars

What I mean is anything involving launching a program via the start menu, some applications via desktop icon, or anything involving Windows Explorer halt and hesitate like something is wrong with the hard drive, or some other problem. I have used ...

Message posted on the April 25th, 2009 - 5:06 AM ET