In this case this is one long thread lol so I didnt read all of it. So how are things so far?
Shane
Sorry about the length of the thread. But thank you for this web site and your utility. In a sea of scams, it was a blessing to find you and your band of merry troops. While your utility didn't fix my PC, it did provide me with a road map and an opportunity to learn. So as much as it's been [blank] frustrating most of the time, this project of resurrecting my PC brought me back into the 'headspace' of application design and coding which I was lucky enough to do for a living for 20 years. The sooner I can get out of this 'headspace', the better.
The short version: After trying to install your utility and failing, I tried installing the stand-alone which failed with the 'Invalid Picture' error. A week later, I came across the installation of your application in c:\temp and ran it, twice, as suggested. During the early stages of the resurrection process, I've installed malwarebytes, hijackthis, and Process Explorer, all of which have pumped out helpful reports.
PC HP Pavillion model m8000n Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit SP2
There is a restore partition but the F11 Recover utility doesn't recognize it. I have the factory System Recovery disks but they come up with a 1012 error. An Enhanced Back Up and Recovery utility (SP39296) also doesn't recognize the restore partition and ends with another error that accuses me of interrupting the creation of the recovery partition. A side trip on the recovery drive led me to a few dozen hidden cmd files that look like the backbone to the recovery process. I have yet to go down that path, but I think it was a good discovery nevertheless.
Now the current state of my pc. The error I see upon login is that a Windows Service (User Profile) failed to start.
The majority of errors are 1083. Here's a list from the admin view of a recent reboot.
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The winlogon notification subscriber <Profiles> was unavailable to handle a critical notification event.
DCOM got error "1083" attempting to start the service ShellHWDetection with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{DD522ACC-F821-461A-A407-50B198B896DC}
The Multimedia Class Scheduler service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Windows Audio service depends on the Multimedia Class Scheduler service which failed to start because of the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The User Profile Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Themes service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The System Event Notification Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Extensible Authentication Protocol service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The WLAN AutoConfig service depends on the Extensible Authentication Protocol service which failed to start because of the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Task Scheduler service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Server service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Computer Browser service depends on the Server service which failed to start because of the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
The Application Experience service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the HP Support Solutions Framework Service service to connect.
The HP Support Solutions Framework Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
The IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The LoadUserProfile call failed with the following error:
The RPC server is unavailable.
The Secondary Logon service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service depends on the Shell Hardware Detection service which failed to start because of the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The IP Helper service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Windows Media Center Extender Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
DCOM got error "1083" attempting to start the service BITS with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{4991D34B-80A1-4291-83B6-3328366B9097}
The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
The Remote Access Connection Manager service failed to start due to the following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.
==note== the above error then repeats a few dozen times followed by
DCOM got error "1083" attempting to start the service BITS with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{4991D34B-80A1-4291-83B6-3328366B9097}
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It's good to have you back and I'm sure hoping someone who lives in this world of Windows internals can help me make sense of this mucky mess. It wouldn't be so bad if my audio was working. Here's a sample of my work up on you-tube.
https://youtu.be/1yd4NQq2FXQ Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger (not available in Germany).
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