ditto



No. Still unloading all the 'extras' HP loads into the PC, since I reformatted. I wanted to clean it up good before I started loading all the SD software again.

I am only running
Impulse
ObjectDock
CursorXP
nothing else. I haven't even downloaded anything else yet.

I also cut back on my security apps (on advice from yrag- I had way to many)
Currently running
AVAST
SPYBOT
ZONELARM FREE
SPYWAREBLASTER
CCLEANER

and also cut my FF add-ons way back. I had about 50 running and cut back to 15. I also deleted Real Player cause it wasa forever running in the background.

I don't know if any of this info will help or not.
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I really don't want to reformat again. It's taken me about 3 days to get things where I want them since the last restore. This blows. I've never gone this long without my SD app's . I don't know weather to load 'em all up again or wait til they figure out if it is a SD app causing the issue.

Worse case scenario...let's say it is an SD app. From what I went through, there turned out to be 16 errors on my HD that the manufacturer's diagnostic tool found..and then fixed. (I used SeaTools for Windows and SeaTools for DOS) If the app caused those errors, might I recommend that all experiencing this problem run a diagnostic on their HD. I have no way of knowing if I had done this PREVIOUS to the System Recovery if it would have fixed it and spared me all the the hassle of doing a System Recovery, but it may save someone else from going through what I went through.

And there's the rub...msconfig isn't the only thing disappearing. Others are related to:

> Search Companion
> User Accounts
> Windows Update
> Help and Support
> System Restore
> Media Player
> IE print function


John: Start/ Run: regsvr32 jscript.dll and try your cam app.

Negatory - No diff.

Help and Support went out on me, to.
So did defrag. The panel would show nothing was happening, but Winpatrol said the control panel was running and so was defrag.

Both are working fine now.

Your idea of 'cutting back' and mine are light years apart........ ;p 

Ya know I blamed Zubazski for this mess (just to make him feel better), but the truth of the matter is, this is all your fuckin' fault......... :CONGRAT: 

Damn....

John: are you the only user on your machine and do you want to try the system fix? All my machines are working properly so I have nothing to test it on.

I tried. I really did. It was hard. You don't know . I still have the Backzilla back up of my last FF settings. I can't bring myself to delete it.


Out of curiosity... I WAS able to bring up MSCONFIG with Launchy. I've been wondering if that's what hid it to begin with. Is anyone else running Launchy?

Hard to have anyone else on my machine when im on it 18 hours a day.

Bring it on.

 :LOL:  :LOL: 

Heard that.  

I'll PM it to you. It's not for the novice, but you should have no problems with it.

Thx man, I'll give it a shot in th emorning when my head is clear.

Preciate it.

ok here is what I did I uninstalled all my sd programs via sdc after uninstalling impulse. Still no go..
So I check startups and find a logitech mouse setpoint driver. Deleted it and uninstalled the program. Deleted all prefetch files in windows prefetch folder. ran %temp% and deleted all temp files in the temp folder. Then restarted the computer ... after the restart ran a reg cleaner called Clean My PC registry cleaner. Ran msconfig and it's back and everything is normal.
I suspect it is a conflict with maybe the set point driver for logitech caused the problem and it may have reacted with a sd program like impulse maybe?
Anyone else have any luck as this or running like wise programs?

SGT :HOT: 

Going to try and duplicate the same problem now that I fixed it again. This time watching to see where it stops showing the msconfig.
Wish me luck!
SGT :HOT: 

Your comment about the prefetch files caught my eye - obviously it's safe to get rid of them? Any precautions to take first?

No Logitech stuff on my rig, BTW.

any prefetch that is needed will be replaced when you rerun the program and it will write a new file there again

no problems there and that be all it is - a prefetch file left over from some installer...
which one I'm not sure yet - trying to reproduce the problem again now

SGT :HOT: 

Alright guys, I can see you've been having fun. I worked big O.T. just got home and I'll have to go back in tomorrow. My brain is toast so, I'm not going to rig maint. tonight. I'd only make mistakes. I'll keep an eye on the thread and see what progress you guys make. Thought it was a program conflict a number of times for sure. Thanks all. Specially Yrag. Gets to the bottom of stuff for sure.  

I'm stumped for now...
But I made a backup of the ugly partition before I fixed it.
So gona load it backup and run a different plan of action for the fix this time and see where it is.
Looks to be something for sure in the regs. Will do a different type of edit this next time around tomorrow afternoon. Working in the morning and should get the partition loaded in the morning before I go.
Till then - best fix is as I did already.
Thus I've reinstalled all programs with Impulse and no problems except for wrong versions for some as with IP and WB beta.
When updating with sdc for wb beta got a activation error - but after restart no problems with wb.
Abit wild - but it is a go for a fix here...

more tomorrow afternoon on the direct cause of it...

SGT :HOT: 

I have an LG wireless mouse.

Everything still good here. Getting ready to break down and install my SD software. I'm jonesing.

Opened Impulse, It asked to restart to apply update. Restarted.
Installed DesktopX through Impulse..rebooted
Spybot- SD Resident popped up that ctfmon.exe was trying to add to start-up. I've had Spybot running for 2 days and this is the first time that popped up when booting. I denied it.
Checked msconfig...it opened but took a bit longer. Made me nervous waiting.

No Po it was not the setpoint drivers or any SDC or Impulse program that was the cause. I'm backing up again what I have fixed and then reloading the bad partition at this very moment. I feel it is a reg that was set by a bad install or something. Will know here in a few hrs from. But as I see it - no problems with Impuls at all. I reinstalled all my sd programs again using Impulse and it worked fine. Except WB version was wrong and so was the IP it installed.

SGT :HOT: 

New info system at startup is using about 120MB too much. Seems to be distributed amoung many processes. I usually kill Ituneshelper which usually loaded at 9.4MB now loading at about 18MB. Soundman was another I would tend to manually kill usually about 4MB recently loading at over 10MB. Many other processes look heavy in memory consumption.

Well it is a no brainer here - backup of the ugly partition will not load. I have mine fixed with what I did already. Suspect it is a bad reg for something. I checked all the prefetch files in a reload of them to see if it was one of them. Nope not that either. So had to be something in the temp folder and reg. Thus I'm stumped without being able to reproduce the problem again.

SGT :HOT: 

I usually run WInPatrol to manage my start-up programs. Yrag has advised me not to install it this time around. So, I don't know how to kill iTunes Helper and now I have Quicktime showing up in my system tray at start-up.

I'm going to have to update iTunes when I activate it for my son's ipod and I know it's gonna want to load all kinds of crap in my start-up.

Any help on how to kill these 2 on start-up?

Press ctrl alt del brings up task manager. Click on Processes tab fFind Ituneshelper and press end process. I think you can also right click on the Itunes Icon if showing in sys tray and kill it that way. Be careful using the task manager to kill a process you don't want to have the wrong one highlighted when you press end process.

I don't want to have to do that everytime I boot. Is there a way to keep it from starting up at all when I boot?