Lost Sound and Other Problems
Ja...@nowhere.com
Premium, 8G RAM):
Yesterday morning, some rogue program wanted to collect all my contact
information in Outlook. Then the space of about 2 hours there were
about 44,000 (yes, you read that right!) tmp files in the temp folder.
Today, the sound services won't load so I have no sound. The two
services are Windows Audio Export Builder and Windows Audio. The
latter is dependent on the Export Builder to start.
The error message is "Windows could not start the Windows Audio
Endpoint Builder service on local computer. Error 0x80070003: The
system cannot find the path specificed." The path is:
C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted
I've run a full virus scan using Avira and malware scan using
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Neither showed any viruses, malware,
trojans, or anything else.
The I tried to restore to an earlier time but that had no success. I
reloaded a day-old copy of the registry, but that didn't work either.
I installed the latest sound card drivers but that didn't do any good.
Many Google hours couldn't give me solution. Two hours more on the
phone with Pakistan tech support gave me the solution that the
registry is corrupt and I need to reinstall the operating system.
Everything else works the way it is supposed to, so I don't want to
reformat and reinstall. I'm willing to give up sound but I'm hoping
that someone might have another solution to try.
FWIW, I do have a complete backup of all my documents and files in
case I want to spend 8 hours reinstalling everything.
As a question, can the offending services be deleted and, if so, would
the operating system reinstall them?
James
richard
Sometimes a full reinstall IS the only way to cure a major problem. Since
you can do a system restore, try going back to the first day the machine
was in use.
You might also want to try out "Toni arts registry cleaner".
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
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chuckcar
news:6h0uv5pkj1l7ovbqa...@4ax.com:
> Some strange things happened to my computer (HP desktop, Vista Home
> Premium, 8G RAM):
>
> Yesterday morning, some rogue program wanted to collect all my contact
> information in Outlook. Then the space of about 2 hours there were
> about 44,000 (yes, you read that right!) tmp files in the temp folder.
> Today, the sound services won't load so I have no sound. The two
> services are Windows Audio Export Builder and Windows Audio. The
> latter is dependent on the Export Builder to start.
>
> The error message is "Windows could not start the Windows Audio
> Endpoint Builder service on local computer. Error 0x80070003: The
> system cannot find the path specificed." The path is:
> C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted
>
You didn't get any messages about a corrupted disk or a disk with "errors"
did you? This sounds suspiciously like a failing drive or improperly
closed files causing chkdsk to create lost fragments for future repair.
> I've run a full virus scan using Avira and malware scan using
> Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Neither showed any viruses, malware,
> trojans, or anything else.
>
> The I tried to restore to an earlier time but that had no success.
*how* did it fail exactly? we *need* error messages for such things.
>I reloaded a day-old copy of the registry, but that didn't work
>either.
You mean with regedit or how? Details man.
BTW registry backups are a last ditch effort, only to be used when you
simply want to get the system working so you can back up your files. In
any other case they undo any previous fixes.
> I installed the latest sound card drivers but that didn't do any good.
Did you try removing all sound drivers from device manager and
rebooting?
> Many Google hours couldn't give me solution. Two hours more on the
> phone with Pakistan tech support gave me the solution that the
> registry is corrupt and I need to reinstall the operating system.
>
I'd tend to think that's entirely possible. What reason did he give for
it not being salvagable?
> Everything else works the way it is supposed to, so I don't want to
> reformat and reinstall.
You can't restore backups of the registry. That's completely unrelated
to sound. You have more serious problems than you realize here.
> I'm willing to give up sound but I'm hoping
> that someone might have another solution to try.
>
> FWIW, I do have a complete backup of all my documents and files in
> case I want to spend 8 hours reinstalling everything.
>
> As a question, can the offending services be deleted and, if so, would
> the operating system reinstall them?
>
In addition to removing and allowing windows to reinstall the (almost
certainly corrupted) drivers, you might also uninstall and reinstall the
multimedia components of windows in add/remove programs. After that,
there's something called the "Casper fix" and after that, it's just a
proper clean install - *with* only the hardware the computer was built
with in the factory. That last is crucial for it to work at all.
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chuckcar
news:nz6o6qa5oj75.1r...@40tude.net:
That's absolutely no better. Worse in fact because the files from all
the installed packages are already there. Almost certain to result in
any corrupted packages remaining so due to configuration files for each
not being overwritten.
thanatoid
> Some strange things happened to my computer (HP desktop,
> Vista Home Premium, 8G RAM):
>
> Yesterday morning, some rogue program wanted to collect all
> my contact information in Outlook.
How do you know this? And WHY did your computer - presumably
properly set up for security - allow this to happen?
> Then the space of about
> 2 hours there were about 44,000 (yes, you read that right!)
> tmp files in the temp folder.
As others said, this could be the sign of a system fucked up by
malware, or a sign of a failing drive, or something else
entirely. Computers are our friends.
> Today, the sound services
> won't load so I have no sound. The two services are Windows
> Audio Export Builder and Windows Audio. The latter is
> dependent on the Export Builder to start.
I have never heard of those but I KNOW I would not use them.
This may be a good time to upgrade to XP, Win7, or Linux, and
get some recent audio software/hardware while you're at it.
> The error message is "Windows could not start the Windows
> Audio Endpoint Builder service on local computer. Error
> 0x80070003: The system cannot find the path specificed."
> The path is: C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k
> LocalSystemNetworkRestricted
I am not an MS employee, so I find all such messages totally
useless.
> I've run a full virus scan using Avira and malware scan
> using Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Neither showed any
> viruses, malware, trojans, or anything else.
Nothing catches EVERYTHING especially if it may have been caused
by a program which was only let out of its cage yesterday. If
you scanned using TEN different AV/AM programs using updates
from an hour ago, then I would say you /probably/ have a clean -
although unhealthy - system. I will not say that NOW.
> The I tried to restore to an earlier time but that had no
> success. I reloaded a day-old copy of the registry, but
> that didn't work either. I installed the latest sound card
> drivers but that didn't do any good. Many Google hours
> couldn't give me solution. Two hours more on the phone
> with Pakistan tech support gave me the solution that the
> registry is corrupt and I need to reinstall the operating
> system.
Wasn't it nice of them to wait two hours before telling you what
they /knew/ they were going to tell you from the moment you
explained the problem?
> Everything else works the way it is supposed to, so I don't
> want to reformat and reinstall.
If you want to have a computer, you have to play the game its
way.
> I'm willing to give up
> sound but I'm hoping that someone might have another
> solution to try.
What do you mean?
> FWIW, I do have a complete backup of all my documents and
> files in case I want to spend 8 hours reinstalling
> everything.
If you know what you are doing, it should not take 8 hours.
> As a question, can the offending services be deleted and,
> if so, would the operating system reinstall them?
If you go that route you're probably just going to fuck things
up more. Besides, there still remains the possibility that you
ARE infected.
Thank the good fubar that you are smart enough to keep backups,
and format and reinstall.
Don't connect to the net and see how the machine works for a day
or two. If you still have problems, at least you'll know they
are ONLY your machine-related - software OR hardware.
There is a multitude of (many free) programs available to test
both hardware and software components, you can do your Googling.
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chuckcar
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> Ja...@nowhere.com wrote in
> news:6h0uv5pkj1l7ovbqa...@4ax.com:
>
>> Some strange things happened to my computer (HP desktop,
>> Vista Home Premium, 8G RAM):
>>
>> The error message is "Windows could not start the Windows
>> Audio Endpoint Builder service on local computer. Error
>> 0x80070003: The system cannot find the path specificed."
>> The path is: C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k
>> LocalSystemNetworkRestricted
>
> I am not an MS employee, so I find all such messages totally
> useless.
It means the files that windows uses for such services are simply not on
the hard drive - possibly due to bad sectors and a chkdsk.
PeeCee
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James
Your wisest course of action is to:
Confirm you have a backup of all your personal data.
Boot from a disk like UBCD and test your hardware..
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
I would suggest you try more than one of the hard drive and memory testing
utilities.
I had a recent case where manufacturer diagnostics issued by the Laptop
maker, failed to detect both the hard drive 'and' a RAM stick had problems.
If your hardware comes up fit & healthy then I would counsel you to zero out
your hard drive, then reinstall your OS and Apps to ensure you have wiped
out any corruptions.
Add any updates and tweaks you prefer.
Then once you have the machine set up how you want it download Paragon
Backup and Recovery Free edition.
http://www.paragon-software.com/free/db.html
Install it and create a full image backup of your hard drive in it's 'ideal'
state.
It's dead easy to use and if you burn direct to DVD it will automatically
make the first disk of the set bootable.
This will allow you to recover to a known 'good' state without spending 8
hours installing all those service packs, Apps and customisations.
I appreciate you don't want to format & reinstall but once an OS has been
bashed about and you start getting weird error messages like you have, then
it is difficult to ever fully trust it again.
Ask any Tech worth his salt and he/she will tell you once you've spend 30-40
minutes on a machine such as yours without success, then the most practical
course it to wipe and reinstall.
Best
Paul.
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> <Ja...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>> I do have a complete backup
> Confirm you have a backup
You utterly fuckheaded nitwit.
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Ja...@nowhere.com
Thanks to everyone for the advice. I'll try to answer your questions:
1.Chuckcar:
I didn't get any error messages about a corrupted disk. The error
message for the restore was that the system was unable to restore all
the files. As it turned out, this was an ini file which had nothing
to do with anything.
I uninstalled all the sound drivers, got the latest drivers from HP
and loaded them. No joy there.
I ran another virus scan (ESET) overnight and it found nothing. So
Avira and Eset both showed nothing as did Malware's Anti-Malware.
I tried to run the Casper fix you mentioned but the registry key it
refers to doesn't exist in Vista. There were several keys in various
locations that the Casper fix coiuld have referred to, but I didn't
want to mess with multiple changes.
2. Thanatoid:
Outlook gave me a message saying some program (not named) was trying
to access my contsct list. It allowed me to deny access, which I did.
When I said 8 hours to reinstall, I meant both the operating system
AND my apps.
3. The registry was restored via regedit. I have a policy I (usually)
follow to make periodic registry backups as well as disk images to an
external drive.
4. I'm convinced that the tech support guy had no reason for
recommending reinstalling the operating system except he ran out of
pages in his script.
Thanks to all for your assistance. My next step is to reinstall. I
have a choice between Vista and Windows 7. I won't try any version of
Linux yet until I can play with it in a virtual machine. Without
getting into the debate, which do you guys recommend at this point?
James
freemont
> Thanks to all for your assistance. My next step is to reinstall. I
> have a choice between Vista and Windows 7. I won't try any version of
> Linux yet until I can play with it in a virtual machine. Without
> getting into the debate, which do you guys recommend at this point?
If the question is whether to run Vista or Win7, Win7 wins hands down.
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chuckcar
news:2tl2065t0ic50hirr...@4ax.com:
> On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:59:15 -0500, Ja...@nowhere.com wrote:
>
>
> Thanks to everyone for the advice. I'll try to answer your questions:
>
> 1.Chuckcar:
> I didn't get any error messages about a corrupted disk. The error
> message for the restore was that the system was unable to restore all
> the files. As it turned out, this was an ini file which had nothing
> to do with anything.
>
> I uninstalled all the sound drivers, got the latest drivers from HP
> and loaded them. No joy there.
>
But did you *manually* remove them from device manager and reboot?
> I ran another virus scan (ESET) overnight and it found nothing. So
> Avira and Eset both showed nothing as did Malware's Anti-Malware.
>
> I tried to run the Casper fix you mentioned but the registry key it
> refers to doesn't exist in Vista. There were several keys in various
> locations that the Casper fix coiuld have referred to, but I didn't
> want to mess with multiple changes.
Ok, if you can't find one for *your* OS, it's best to do none of it at
all.
>
Did you uninstall/reinstall multimedia?
> 4. I'm convinced that the tech support guy had no reason for
> recommending reinstalling the operating system except he ran out of
> pages in his script.
>
Well I worked at that job at one point, and I can tell you - assuming
it was someone comptetent - and that varys wildly because there's a *lot*
of memory work. Far more than you'd imagine - Reinstalling the OS can
be the only fix sometimes. But that means he would have had to eliminate
the possibility that your sound card/part of the motherboard is dead. That
last can only be determined by manually removing the drivers from device
manager, rebooting and then seeing what happens with the PNP when they're
reinstalled.
> Thanks to all for your assistance. My next step is to reinstall. I
> have a choice between Vista and Windows 7. I won't try any version of
> Linux yet until I can play with it in a virtual machine. Without
> getting into the debate, which do you guys recommend at this point?
>
XP. Failing that the restore disks that *came* with the computer.
Assuming you've done what I mention above.
freemont
> Ja...@nowhere.com wrote in
>> My next step is to reinstall. I have a choice between Vista and
>> Windows 7. Which do you guys recommend at this point?
> XP.
<APPLAUSE>
Ja...@nowhere.com
wrote:
Regarding the multimedia uninstall/reinstall, perhaps I'm a bit
confused. What exactly are you talking about? Where is this entry
supposed to be? If the registry, there are multiple locations and as
I said, I don't want to screw around with multiple changes. If the
Control Panel, there is no multimedia entry. There are separate
entries for audio devices which I did uninstall and reinstall.
I do have the recovery disks which I made from the HP files when I got
the computer.
thanatoid
<SNIP>
> 2. Thanatoid:
> Outlook gave me a message saying some program (not named)
> was trying to access my contsct list. It allowed me to
> deny access, which I did.
So did it do anything or not? It /seems/ like it DID mess up
your machine.
> When I said 8 hours to reinstall,
> I meant both the operating system AND my apps.
I understood that. Still seems a little long. Like someone else
suggested, you should get a drive imaging app. like Acronis
(there are also free ones at http://freeware.intrastar.net.
Depending on your drive manuf. you MAY be able to get an Acronis
version for THAT drive free from the drive manuf's site.
It's fantastic site but unfortunately with no search function,
and I can NEVER find those tools. But it';s worth the trouble.
> 3. The registry was restored via regedit. I have a policy
> I (usually) follow to make periodic registry backups as
> well as disk images to an external drive.
The registry is much overrated as far as being a "recovery/save
your butt" item. Many OTHER things can get screwed up, and
restoring the registry won't help. Plus, it's a buggy feature at
best, from what I have read.
> 4. I'm convinced that the tech support guy had no reason
> for recommending reinstalling the operating system except
> he ran out of pages in his script.
That's more or less what I meant, they usually do because most
problems requiring manuf's tech support are beyond the average
tech support person's capability to even understand.
I've been there, and I won't go there again. Waste of time.
> Thanks to all for your assistance. My next step is to
> reinstall. I have a choice between Vista and Windows 7. I
> won't try any version of Linux yet until I can play with it
> in a virtual machine. Without getting into the debate,
> which do you guys recommend at this point?
Win7 (Win 6.1) supposedly fixes most of the problems with Vista
(Win 6.0) but undoubtedly introduces many new ones as well. That
has always been MS's pattern and it will never change. It's a
hopeless dead-end OS.
I would highly recommend XP - since they have stopped messing
with it, it probably works pretty well now.
FWIW, I use 98SE/Lite/ and I am VERY happy with it. It does
everything I need. I have XP on another partition due to a new
hardware with no pre-XP drivers. I have yet to use the hardware
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thanatoid
impressive. Everything worked flawlessly and I connected to the
net after making ONE tiny radio box button selection change.
I forget WHY you would want to do this, but thought it worth
mentioning.
chuckcar
news:bks206l21ofe83qje...@4ax.com:
No, *not* in regedit. Simply uninstall the Multimedia windows components
in Add/Remove programs in the windows tab. BTW there *is* an entry called
Multimedia inControl panel, but you do *not* want to touch that, that deals with
things in a slightly different way - it includes codecs and drivers in
one place. Pointless IMHO and a leftover from windows 3 when you had to
set up such manually.
This states how to get there (it's for XP, but this much hasn't changed
since windows 95:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307894
The link below states how to get to device manager in Vista:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310126
> I do have the recovery disks which I made from the HP files when I got
> the computer.
>
Use those before you try XP. With XP you may not have drivers for
certain things as you have a custom version of windows quite different
from retail Vista.
chuckcar
> On Sat, 29 May 2010 19:21:15 +0000 (UTC), chuckcar <ch...@nil.car>
On that last: Make *absolutely* sure that when you run them, you only
have the hardware in and connected to the computer as it came out of
the factory. This means USB, Firewire, and PCMCIA devices of any sort
and removing *any* added cards inside. *Nothing* else can be present or
the install will most likely not work right and you won't get all the
drivers installed correctly.
Another thought comes to mind. Is it at all possible that this (rather
severe) corruption of your OS was the result of using regedit itself and
removing keys by accident?
The other thing to remember is that Vista *does* have a full gui to
support registry backups. It even arranges them by date on a calender.
chuckcar
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> Ja...@nowhere.com wrote in
> news:2tl2065t0ic50hirr...@4ax.com:
>
>> 3. The registry was restored via regedit. I have a policy
>> I (usually) follow to make periodic registry backups as
>> well as disk images to an external drive.
>
> The registry is much overrated as far as being a "recovery/save
> your butt" item. Many OTHER things can get screwed up, and
> restoring the registry won't help. Plus, it's a buggy feature at
> best, from what I have read.
>
Well not the actual restore/save part, but if the wrong parts of the OS
are messed up, you can't restore or save.
> FWIW, I use 98SE/Lite/ and I am VERY happy with it. It does
> everything I need. I have XP on another partition due to a new
> hardware with no pre-XP drivers. I have yet to use the hardware
I don't believe I ever asked this, but where does one get 98se light?
Tony
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*potty* mouth?
chuckcar wrote:
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> 98se light
WTF?????
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> On Sat, 29 May 2010 22:42:00 +0000 (UTC), chuckcar <ch...@nil.car>
> wrote:
>
>>I don't believe I ever asked this, but where does one get 98se light?
>
> Is your google broken?
>
> First hit for Windows 98lite
> http://www.litepc.com/98lite.html
Light???? Lite????
Think about it. Can chuckie tell the difference?
chuckcar
news:htsaer$fa6$4...@news.eternal-september.org:
> On Sat, 29 May 2010 16:20:27 -0700, Evan Platt wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 29 May 2010 22:42:00 +0000 (UTC), chuckcar <ch...@nil.car>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>I don't believe I ever asked this, but where does one get 98se light?
>>
>> Is your google broken?
>>
>> First hit for Windows 98lite
>> http://www.litepc.com/98lite.html
>
> Light???? Lite????
>
> Think about it. Can chuckie tell the difference?
>
Yes, the version *I* used is an actual word.
You F*cked up again.
Tony
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<SNIP>
> I don't believe I ever asked this, but where does one get
> 98se light?
You get 98SE from MS and the Lite (sic) modificator from
www.litepc.com.
It basically changes 3 main system files to the ones from 95B/C,
making the system faster, and eliminating Active Desktop, and
the stupid "show everything as web page" thing.
It also removes IE if you want it to. I don't believe HAVING it
is a problem, USING it is. All Operas up to 10 (and maybe newer)
run fine on it. Even Flash.
SOME programs need the later shell, so won't install/run. There
are always alternatives.
A well-written program should run on ALL 32-bit Windows
platforms.
Frank Gilchrist
> A well-written program should run on ALL 32-bit Windows
> platforms.
What if it was written for 64-bit linux?
Aardvark
But not the correct spelling for that to which you were referring.
>
> You F*cked up again.
LOL.
Yeah. Right.
The Old Sourdough
>> Aardvark <aard...@youllnever.know> wrote in
>> news:htsaer$fa6$4...@news.eternal-september.org:
>>
>>> On Sat, 29 May 2010 16:20:27 -0700, Evan Platt wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 29 May 2010 22:42:00 +0000 (UTC), chuckcar <ch...@nil.car>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I don't believe I ever asked this, but where does one get 98se light?
>>>>
>>>> Is your google broken?
>>>>
>>>> First hit for Windows 98lite
>>>> http://www.litepc.com/98lite.html
>>>
>>> Light???? Lite????
>>>
>>> Think about it. Can chuckie tell the difference?
>>>
>> Yes, the version *I* used is an actual word.
> But not the correct spelling for that to which you were referring.
>>
>> You F*cked up again.
> LOL.
> Yeah. Right.
Chucktard is the very last person who should be complaining about
spelling errors.
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news:slrni04m5c...@squirrel.theoldsourdough.com:
> Aardvark mumbled in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
>> On Sun, 30 May 2010 00:23:00 +0000, chuckcar wrote:
>
>
> Chucktard is the very last person who should be complaining about
> spelling errors.
>
Are you having a slow day or something? *I'm* not and I wasn't.
chuckcar
news:Xns9D87C96E2...@85.214.73.210:
> chuckcar <ch...@nil.car> wrote in
> news:Xns9D87BCF...@127.0.0.1:
>
> <SNIP>
>
>> I don't believe I ever asked this, but where does one get
>> 98se light?
>
> You get 98SE from MS and the Lite (sic) modificator from
> www.litepc.com.
> It basically changes 3 main system files to the ones from 95B/C,
> making the system faster, and eliminating Active Desktop, and
> the stupid "show everything as web page" thing.
>
> It also removes IE if you want it to. I don't believe HAVING it
> is a problem, USING it is. All Operas up to 10 (and maybe newer)
> run fine on it. Even Flash.
>
> SOME programs need the later shell, so won't install/run. There
> are always alternatives.
>
> A well-written program should run on ALL 32-bit Windows
> platforms.
>
Thanks. Sounds like the way to go. I *dispise* the dumbing down that's
happened since 98SE.
Ja...@nowhere.com
wrote:
Chuck,
In my set up, there is *no* Multimedia entry in the Control Panel. The
closest thing to it is a number of codecs I installed for things like
FLAC, OGG, etc. Is there something I'm missing here?
I do have a copy of Windows XP. So I guess I'm stuck with living
with my problem or doing a clean reinstall of the OS.
Thanks for your help.
chuckcar
news:du0506tvan8gsjcj2...@4ax.com:
> On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:15:42 +0000 (UTC), chuckcar <ch...@nil.car>
> wrote:
>
>>Ja...@nowhere.com wrote in
>>news:bks206l21ofe83qje...@4ax.com:
>>
>>
> In my set up, there is *no* Multimedia entry in the Control Panel. The
> closest thing to it is a number of codecs I installed for things like
> FLAC, OGG, etc. Is there something I'm missing here?
>
That's it, but as I said, Ignore and do *not* bother with it.
> I do have a copy of Windows XP. So I guess I'm stuck with living
> with my problem or doing a clean reinstall of the OS.
>
What about device manager and add/remove programs? I would suggest that
you would have much better luck using the restore CD with Vista. Name
brand computers are designed for *one* operating system and unless you
got the XP upgrade from HP, Your computer won't have drivers in it
(that is retail XP won't) almost certainly.
Ja...@nowhere.com
wrote:
>Ja...@nowhere.com wrote in
>news:du0506tvan8gsjcj2...@4ax.com:
>
>> On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:15:42 +0000 (UTC), chuckcar <ch...@nil.car>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Ja...@nowhere.com wrote in
>>>news:bks206l21ofe83qje...@4ax.com:
>>>
>>>
>> In my set up, there is *no* Multimedia entry in the Control Panel. The
>> closest thing to it is a number of codecs I installed for things like
>> FLAC, OGG, etc. Is there something I'm missing here?
>>
>That's it, but as I said, Ignore and do *not* bother with it.
>
>> I do have a copy of Windows XP. So I guess I'm stuck with living
>> with my problem or doing a clean reinstall of the OS.
>>
>What about device manager and add/remove programs? I would suggest that
>you would have much better luck using the restore CD with Vista. Name
>brand computers are designed for *one* operating system and unless you
>got the XP upgrade from HP, Your computer won't have drivers in it
>(that is retail XP won't) almost certainly.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I started with XP. The
computer came with Vista Home Premium x64. It's reinstall that or
upgrade to Win 7 (I have install disks for both OS's.)
freemont
> I *dispise* the dumbing down that's
> happened since 98SE.
Teacher: Chuckcar, use the word 'dispise' in a sentence.
Chuckcar: Dispise de bestest pie I ever had! NOM NOM.
thanatoid
news:2010053002195...@codeine.sabotage.org:
Slow day. huh, smarty-pants?
The discussion was about WINDOWS, as if you didn't know.
chuckcar
news:en850653e9vmobr04...@4ax.com:
Yes, I *know*. However some computer manufacturers offered an "upgrade"
back to XP after Vista turned out to be such a bust.
James
>On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:59:15 -0500, Ja...@nowhere.com wrote:
>
>>Some strange things happened to my computer (HP desktop, Vista Home
>>Premium, 8G RAM):
>>
>>Yesterday morning, some rogue program wanted to collect all my contact
>>information in Outlook. Then the space of about 2 hours there were
>>about 44,000 (yes, you read that right!) tmp files in the temp folder.
>>Today, the sound services won't load so I have no sound. The two
>>services are Windows Audio Export Builder and Windows Audio. The
>>latter is dependent on the Export Builder to start.
>>
>>The error message is "Windows could not start the Windows Audio
>>Endpoint Builder service on local computer. Error 0x80070003: The
>>system cannot find the path specificed." The path is:
>>C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted
>>
>>I've run a full virus scan using Avira and malware scan using
>>Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Neither showed any viruses, malware,
>>trojans, or anything else.
>>
>>The I tried to restore to an earlier time but that had no success. I
>>reloaded a day-old copy of the registry, but that didn't work either.
>>I installed the latest sound card drivers but that didn't do any good.
>>Many Google hours couldn't give me solution. Two hours more on the
>>phone with Pakistan tech support gave me the solution that the
>>registry is corrupt and I need to reinstall the operating system.
>>
>>Everything else works the way it is supposed to, so I don't want to
>>reformat and reinstall. I'm willing to give up sound but I'm hoping
>>that someone might have another solution to try.
>>
>>FWIW, I do have a complete backup of all my documents and files in
>>case I want to spend 8 hours reinstalling everything.
>>
>>As a question, can the offending services be deleted and, if so, would
>>the operating system reinstall them?
>>
>>James
>
>Thanks to everyone for the advice. I'll try to answer your questions:
>
>1.Chuckcar:
>I didn't get any error messages about a corrupted disk. The error
>message for the restore was that the system was unable to restore all
>the files. As it turned out, this was an ini file which had nothing
>to do with anything.
>
>I uninstalled all the sound drivers, got the latest drivers from HP
>and loaded them. No joy there.
>
>I ran another virus scan (ESET) overnight and it found nothing. So
>Avira and Eset both showed nothing as did Malware's Anti-Malware.
>
>I tried to run the Casper fix you mentioned but the registry key it
>refers to doesn't exist in Vista. There were several keys in various
>locations that the Casper fix coiuld have referred to, but I didn't
>want to mess with multiple changes.
>
>2. Thanatoid:
>Outlook gave me a message saying some program (not named) was trying
>to access my contsct list. It allowed me to deny access, which I did.
>When I said 8 hours to reinstall, I meant both the operating system
>AND my apps.
>
>3. The registry was restored via regedit. I have a policy I (usually)
>follow to make periodic registry backups as well as disk images to an
>external drive.
>
>4. I'm convinced that the tech support guy had no reason for
>recommending reinstalling the operating system except he ran out of
>pages in his script.
>
>Thanks to all for your assistance. My next step is to reinstall. I
>have a choice between Vista and Windows 7. I won't try any version of
>Linux yet until I can play with it in a virtual machine. Without
>getting into the debate, which do you guys recommend at this point?
>
>James
Everyone,
Justr wanted to let you know that I bit the bullet and installed Win
7. I restored my files where possible and reinstalled others that
needed to install with an installer.
Anyhow, everything works and I wanted to thank everyone for their
advice and assistance.
James