ColTom2
April 9th 09, 07:14 PM
Hi:
I have a friend who has a HPA1737C desktop running Vista Home Premium and
most, if not all of his System32 applications/processes, are no longer
accessible. I originally made a similar posting of this in the Vista
Newsgroup, but received only one reply. However, since System 32 is also
applicable to XP I thought I would try these Newsgroups in hopes someone can
provide more information.
System Restore, Device Manager, Defrag, Event Viewer, Services, MSCONFIG.
etc cannot be opened and seemingly also anything System32 file related. Even
the Volume icon in Taskbar has a Red X on it. No applications related to
System32 will open. It is like something killed System32.
I placed computer in SafeMode and selected Restore To Last Known Good
Configuration and it had no affect on restoring.
I can access the internet with IE7 and he can send email with no problems.
However, I cannot uninstall or install any applications. He did install some
Windows Updates KB867812, KB959772, KB960225, and KB958690 a few days back,
but I see nothing in the Vista Newsgroup that would make these possibly
related to his problem. Has Norton AV with latest definitions and full scan
indicates no problems.
If anyone has any idea as to cause and cure I would be most appreciative.
Just trying to help a friend out.
Thanks,
ColTom2
I have a friend who has a HPA1737C desktop running Vista Home Premium and
most, if not all of his System32 applications/processes, are no longer
accessible. I originally made a similar posting of this in the Vista
Newsgroup, but received only one reply. However, since System 32 is also
applicable to XP I thought I would try these Newsgroups in hopes someone can
provide more information.
System Restore, Device Manager, Defrag, Event Viewer, Services, MSCONFIG.
etc cannot be opened and seemingly also anything System32 file related. Even
the Volume icon in Taskbar has a Red X on it. No applications related to
System32 will open. It is like something killed System32.
I placed computer in SafeMode and selected Restore To Last Known Good
Configuration and it had no affect on restoring.
I can access the internet with IE7 and he can send email with no problems.
However, I cannot uninstall or install any applications. He did install some
Windows Updates KB867812, KB959772, KB960225, and KB958690 a few days back,
but I see nothing in the Vista Newsgroup that would make these possibly
related to his problem. Has Norton AV with latest definitions and full scan
indicates no problems.
If anyone has any idea as to cause and cure I would be most appreciative.
Just trying to help a friend out.
Thanks,
ColTom2