Andrew E.
December 11th 03, 09:26 PM
Reloading,as in transfered a hd,or transfered the entire
os from one machine to another? It's not advised from
microsoft,all the settings are set up diffrent,one
major diffrence is BIOS settings.You should reload xp,
you can use the back-up,and file transfer wizard to
save old info.
>-----Original Message-----
>Ok, this is a new one for me. I have been running Windows
>XP Professional for just over a year now and have been
>relatively trouble free up to this point; however, I just
>upgraded to a new PC (specs at the bottom) and have
>discovered a rather odd problem. Whether I am trying to
>load a new 3rd party application, or trying run Windows
>Help, or a 3rd party application already loaded sometimes
>they will load without a problem and other times they
will
>not load at all. When they fail to initialize, they do
not
>hang up my system or show any error message basically the
>OS acts as if I have not launched a program at all. Quite
>often I will see the target running under Task Manager,
>and if I click on the shortcut or actual target itself I
>will see a second version under Task Manager. The problem
>began almost immediately after reloading Windows XP onto
>my new PC. I have reloaded Windows twice, both in Repair
>Mode and as a New Install but the problem persists. Maybe
>half the time this occurs restarting Windows will correct
>the problem but the other half of the time I still cannot
>run the program. Like I mentioned earlier, this seems to
>be effecting both native Windows programs, programs I am
>attempting to install, and programs already successfully
>loaded.
>
>I am clueless at this point as to what to try next. My
>system is AMD Athlon XP 2700, MSI K7N2G-L nForce2 IGP +
>nForce2 MCP MB, 512 3200 DDR RAM, MSI GeForce4 4800 SE
128
>MB 8xAGP Video Card, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80 GB HD (4-
>NTSF Partitions), SB Audigy 2, 16x DVD, 52x24x52 CD-RW.
>
>I would greatly appreciate anyone's input or suggestions.
>Thank you in advance as I am quite sure many of you have
a
>much more knowledge in this than I do.
>.
>
os from one machine to another? It's not advised from
microsoft,all the settings are set up diffrent,one
major diffrence is BIOS settings.You should reload xp,
you can use the back-up,and file transfer wizard to
save old info.
>-----Original Message-----
>Ok, this is a new one for me. I have been running Windows
>XP Professional for just over a year now and have been
>relatively trouble free up to this point; however, I just
>upgraded to a new PC (specs at the bottom) and have
>discovered a rather odd problem. Whether I am trying to
>load a new 3rd party application, or trying run Windows
>Help, or a 3rd party application already loaded sometimes
>they will load without a problem and other times they
will
>not load at all. When they fail to initialize, they do
not
>hang up my system or show any error message basically the
>OS acts as if I have not launched a program at all. Quite
>often I will see the target running under Task Manager,
>and if I click on the shortcut or actual target itself I
>will see a second version under Task Manager. The problem
>began almost immediately after reloading Windows XP onto
>my new PC. I have reloaded Windows twice, both in Repair
>Mode and as a New Install but the problem persists. Maybe
>half the time this occurs restarting Windows will correct
>the problem but the other half of the time I still cannot
>run the program. Like I mentioned earlier, this seems to
>be effecting both native Windows programs, programs I am
>attempting to install, and programs already successfully
>loaded.
>
>I am clueless at this point as to what to try next. My
>system is AMD Athlon XP 2700, MSI K7N2G-L nForce2 IGP +
>nForce2 MCP MB, 512 3200 DDR RAM, MSI GeForce4 4800 SE
128
>MB 8xAGP Video Card, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80 GB HD (4-
>NTSF Partitions), SB Audigy 2, 16x DVD, 52x24x52 CD-RW.
>
>I would greatly appreciate anyone's input or suggestions.
>Thank you in advance as I am quite sure many of you have
a
>much more knowledge in this than I do.
>.
>