Reboot reboot reboot...
Thanks for the tip on the clean boot. I haven't used this diagnostic before
but I'm sure I'll use it again.
The results of this confuse me somewhat but at least have narrowed down the
problem. With System.ini, Win.ini and Load System Services unchecked, sure
enough the problem's gone.
Turn System.ini back on, still OK.
Turn Win.ini back on, still OK.
Load System Services again, problem returns.
Load System Services with all non-MS services disabled, problem is still
there. I suppose the answer now is to reboot switching off the MS services
one by one. Oh joy!
I'll let you know.
"Fifthgen Guy" wrote:
Oh, that's too bad. I do have to say that HP has been VERY responsive.
They've had me uninstalling, etc. They seem convinced that their software is
just fine. Is your problem related to all programs/files or just MS ones? I
assume that you've gone through all the virus checking stuff. I use adaware
(seems to be better than norton in finding nasties), norton, spywareguard,
spywareblaster and when I really want to crank down, I use sysafe to watch
everything that is running. The only one not free is norton, but I'm sure
you have some antivirus thing.
I have tried cleaning the registry with several utilities. The best that
has happened is nothing, the worst is after running norton systemwork to
"correct" things, my system was not bootable and that time I really had to
start all over. I'm sure that it "corrected" things that killed the system
-- the system was very clean when I did this - just wanted to have a starting
point where I knew everything was squeaky clean. So, be careful of some
programs that will "fix you up". ;-)
Try doing the "clean boot" and seeing if the problem goes away. I'm amazed
that this one little program caused so much trouble. Anyway, the clean boot
will shut down all non-MS stuff. You might also try a safe boot. That
should be even more restrictive - for drivers and such. Yeah, I know, reboot
reboot reboot... sigh
If I find any more, I'll post here, of course.
-- Joe B.
"Mike Ferrie" wrote:
Hi Joe,
I got really excited when I saw your post. I fired up task manager and sure
enough there it was Hpofxm07.exe. End process, right click on a file and...
no difference. There were also another four processes running; Hposts07.exe,
Hpoipm07.exe, Hpoevm07.exe and Hpoojd07.exe. Killed them all, still the same.
Rebooted, closed the printer icon in the system tray, still the same. Removed
the printer, still the same.
From memory we've had trouble with HP printer software in the past, so the
fact that it affected your machine is not altogether a surprise. Anyway, I'm
still looking.
"Fifthgen Guy" wrote:
Nope - didn't add anything to the right click. Surprisingly, as I sent this
last message, HP had sent me a pointer to MS VM software and told me to load
it. I did, and uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. No diff. Since that program
is the fax manager for the HP and I use my PC to fax, I'll just kill the
sucker. [Like a water faucet, I can kill it and things will immediately
start working...]
I had been using this software and hardware since before I put on SP2 --
even before I went to winxp. Having this as stable software sure threw me
off...
-- Joe B.
"da_test" wrote:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:37:01 -0700, Fifthgen Guy
wrote:
OMG!!! I found this one. This time, it showed up because of a clean boot
(turning off almost everything). In short, hpOFXM07.exe for my HP Officejet
V40 software is the culprit. If I kill it, the problem immediately
disappears. If I fire it up again, I go into the huge timeouts. I tried
uninstalling and reinstalling the printer software (this is the fax junk,
etc, scanner software, etc. that comes with the printer). It complained that
part of the install was "Unable to start the application--the Java Virtual
Machine cannot be loaded." So, I'm guessing that after a do a reinstall of
winxp, things would stop working properly after I had to install newer java
for some program - don't remember that, so probably something automatic.
But, this is a guess.
I'm also guessing that the FX in the name means that this is some driver for
the FAX interface - which I don't use. So, if you have this program running
on your system, kill it (or close the hp printer icon in your systray) and
see if your system starts working again.
Just insane... but, true..??
-- Joe B.
Good find !
very often, these exact symptoms are seen when an application
misbehaves that has added something to the right click
context menu.
Uninstalling the offending program is the soution.
Your HP prog didn't add anything to the right click context menu did
it?
Dave
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