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Ken Reels

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Aug 3, 2024, 11:20:51 AM8/3/24

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Since chkdsk found and "fixed" some errors the parition could be in a state which prevents it from booting in a way "start-up repair" does not recognize and thus fails to fix. You might want to try a re-format of the partition and re-install of Vista.

The fact that there was a problem on the disk in the first place might also indicate a physical probem with the disk. Most vendors have special tools on their web-site to diagnose problems with their drives beyond what windows does. If you suspect the disk, buy a new one and migrate everything on that disk (even partitions which are still fine).

There is also the possibility of a different hardware problem, e.g. motherboard, disk controller, but since Ubuntu seems to work fine this is less likely. You might still want to check your bios settings for anything unusual (which Linux might cope with but Windows does not).

This usually happens when graphics card driver does not function properly. To get your computer working , log in safe mode and uninstall graphic card driver from device manager and reboot your computer. After you will able to login windows and Vista will automatically install the default driver for motherboard.

Yes. I recently had to do one of the more difficult moves from an AMD based laptop to an Intel based laptop. Normally I would not have attempted this but It was necessary for the customer. I first grabbed my ultimate boot disk for windows and booted to the Barts environment and one of the utilities is to fix the hard drive controller. This utility is designed to change the registry in XP to allow you to fix the startup portion of windows that tells the OS to use a certain type of IDE or SATA controller. They have taken this feature into Vista and the laptops I did recently were Vista. Use the Second hard drive controller repair feature it worked for me. Full instructions are loacated at _0x7b.htm

Toolbox motherboard-lI believe what you are seeing is Microsoft anti-pirating in action.
When the OS is initially loaded, it will create a local key on the disk based upon a number of factors, mobo manuafacturer and model and other attached devices. When any of these subsequently change, the key can be somewhat forgiving if you are simply replacing an attached device for example. The mobo on the other hand can be assumed either an attempt to image a disk and install on a second computer or worse yet, a stolen disk and subsequent attempt to steal data.
This failure to load is not new to Vista, it occurs with XP also.
You may want to contact Microsoft and plead your case to get this license reactivated once you get the pc back up but I would be very interested in hearing if there is a way to successfully launch an existing Vista (or XP) imaged HDD connected to a different mobo.

Firefox message said "running. close all firefox windows". Firefox window did not appear to be open so I shut down puter and rebooted. Firefox will not load, open, connect. Nothing. I've even gone into the computer file to click on firefox.exe file. Nothing, zip, nada

See _will_not_start_up---You can do a clean reinstall and download a fresh Firefox copy from and save the file to the desktop.Uninstall your current Firefox version and remove the Firefox program folder before installing that copy of the Firefox installer.It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.You can initially skip the step to create a new profile, that may not necessary for this issue......See _diagnostic_-_Firefox#Clean_reinstall

I just bought KotOR 2 using some money I got as a Christmas present, and I am having no luck in getting it to start. I recently upgraded my computer and put Windows Vista Ultimate x64 on it, and now I am regretting that because I have been having a world of trouble with my old games, or even somewhat newer "old games". I went to Vista x64 because it's what was available to me in 64 bit (my university provides full installs of various operating systems as part of our technology fee) and I did not want to lose the memory to XP x86's memory addressing limits, but I think I would have been better off to have kept 32-bit and just lost the memory.

I have installed KotOR 2 in compatibility mode for XP SP2 with Administrator privileges. The install works fine. Once it is installed, I try to run swkotor2.exe directly, in XP SP2 compatibility mode with Administrator privileges. I have updated my mss32.dll file as well. I get the LucasArts logo, then the Obsidian logo, and then the screen with the guy from the cover. After this, the application dies, and I get a message stating that the program has stopped responding. Here is the text of the error report.

there are many good suggestions for installing and getting KotOR 2 to run under vista including: install under compatability mode, get new .exe from securecom - link is in the thread, use nhancer to create profile to force opengl to version 1.4, replace mss32.dll, and more.

i was having the same problethere is another way... you can use a brute force method by using an autoclicker to spam the exe in the right spot to open it then close the appcrash over and over. ussually at around the 500th open, it works

Not true - what is installed and running when SQL Server is installed won't make any difference to how SQL Server is installed. SQL Server requires and uses those local windows groups to manage security to the actual files.

In every single installation, those local windows groups are created - except when installed on a standard Windows cluster. The local groups are added to SQL Server as logins - again, except when installed in a standard Windows cluster.

If you are only installing the client tools on your local system - then of course you won't have the local groups created. They are only used when you install the database engine, integration services, analysis services or reporting services.

Ahhh - yes, if you are running SQL Server Express it won't have the same setup. Besides, SQL Server Express does not come with SQL Server Agent or the other related services unless you download and install the Advanced version.

I'm flattered that my post has generated so many replies but alas I'm no nearer a solution. I have read some of the articles and I'm wondering whether it's related to registry permissions although I'm reluctant to meddle in the registry. Has anyone else come across this issue and it's been related to the server registry settings?

I had something very similar to this. After upgrading an instance from SQL 2K to 2K5, I tried to change the startup accounts. After 2 reboots of the server all was well. After the first reboot, the Agent wouldn't start. This behavior was consistent across 4 servers that were upgraded.

I spent a while at the time trying to follow the previous posts on this topic and unfrotunately still cannot get an answer to my problem. The original problem from December 2009 is described below:

I'm attempting to move away from using the LocalSystem account as the logon/startup accounts for SQL Server, SQL Server Agent and the other SQL services. I've had a new windows domain account created for the SQL Server Agent and given this account a sysadmin SQL server role and also added it to the local administrator group on the SQL server.

Strange, I've seen something similar, but usually gotten some type of SSPI error in the event logs. It almost sounds like some strange corruption issue, but it seems that the Agent works with LocalSystem, correct?

Agent definitely works with the LocalSystem account - this is how we have had it set up from the start and it works fine however with this account we cannot see data on other servers that we want to import in our nightly schedules.

That just about covers most common keyboard shortcuts you can use on a Windows computer. The list goes on however, as there are so many more keyboard shortcuts and functions you can perform, which is even further expanded when taking into account that certain applications have their own keyboard shortcuts when those are in use.

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