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Problem when I boot...
When I boot, I get a message that "Windows cannot find C:Program. Make sure
you typed the name correctly, and then try again." I click on OK and the boot process completes. While only annoying, it would be nice if it did not occur. -- Thanks, regards, LAU |
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Problem when I boot...
"CHOCHILAU" wrote in message
... When I boot, I get a message that "Windows cannot find C:Program. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." I click on OK and the boot process completes. While only annoying, it would be nice if it did not occur. -- Thanks, regards, LAU You have an invalid or remnant entry in a place used to load programs on Windows startup. Could be: Registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run (for you login) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run (for everyone's login) Startup folder (yours or All Users) Task Scheduler (look for events scheduled to run on Windows startup or on login) There are some other places where a program can be configured to load on startup but start with these. Of course, you could just use msconfig.exe to look at the startup programs to notice which one has the invalid entry of where to find the program to load. What's likely is that a program neglected to enclose its load string within double quotes. It contains spaces so parsing ends at the first space figuring that is the program and the rest are parameters to that program. So an entry like: C:\Program Files\someapplication\someprogram someparameters ends up getting parsed per the space delimiters as: Program = C:\Program Parameters = Files\someapplication\someprogram someparameters It should've been entered as: "C:\Program Files\someapplication\someprogram" someparameters Some uninstalls forget to remove these entries or screw it up. Some cleanup scanners that remove malware screw up removing this entry. Some programmers for install programs or users entering this stuff forget to enclose the string identifying the program within double quotes if it happens to include spaces, or they neglect to use double quotes within a variable that represents the path to the executable forgetting that the path might have spaces. If the path to the executable has spaces then the start string SHOULD be double quoted. However, sometimes the load works okay without the double quotes, and sometimes it doesn't. Since a program can be executed without specifying its extension, is c:\tools\prog setup\inst supposed to run a program called "prog" with parameters that tell it where to find an installation path or file under a relative directory, or was it meant to run the program "inst" and the path to it has the space in "c:\tools\prog setup\"? In a DOS shell, see what happens when you run: dir c:\program files\ without any double quotes. It won't find anything (unless you happen to have a subdirectory just named "program"). Now run: dir "c:\program files" The command interpreter has its defaults on how to guess what might've been meant by the start string, but do you really want it to be guessing? If the entry only has "C:\Program" then it'll take work to figure out what application was installed but screwed up its start string or what application got removed and whatever removed it screwed up. However, if it has "C:\Program Files\..." then you can probably determine what was supposed to get loaded by this start string and decide if you want to keep it or not. If you want to keep it, double quote the program portion of it (i.e., the part that shows the path and file for the program's executable). If you don't want this program to load, delete this registry key (you might want to export it in case it really was needed but had to be repaired by double quoting it command portion). However, in the case of a registry key that had an unquoted start string that has spaces in the path to the executable, the typical action is to open an instance of Explorer that shows that path - *IF* a correct path were specified. However, it is highly unlikely that you have a path called C:\Program (you do have a path called "C:\Program Files"). If you use the Start - Run menu to enter just C:\Program (be sure to wipe the " Files" string that it would normally add because it assists the user by listing matching objects), is that the popup you see? System32 Folder Opens When Logging on to Windows http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=170086 In looking at my Run keys in the registry, I just noticed a couple data items under those keys that we zBrowser Launcher = C:\Program Files\Logitech\iTouch\iTouch.exe ClipMate6 = C:\Program Files\ClipMate6\ClipMate.exe Those are bad entries since they should have been double quoted due to the spaces embedded in the paths to their executables. They load so I know those run items do work but they really should be double quoted to ensure the parser knows exactly which part is the fully qualified file path and which are parameters, if any, to the executable. -- __________________________________________________ _______________ Post your replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. E-mail: vanguard_help AT yahoo.com (append "#NEWS#" to Subject) __________________________________________________ _______________ |
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