Recent content by alahol2

Thanks everyone, just been back to have another try and it booted up much cleaner this time. I was able to explore the recycle bin and restore the my pictures etc folders. I obviously did something the first time I looked because all previous bootups had been problematical. Just wish I knew...

Right clicking the recycle bin icon gives the option to empty etc as normal. There is no option to restore the whole bin and 'open' gives me the the explorer screen of the desktop. 'properties' causes the hard disk to 'cycle/hunt' before showing the normal properties screen for the recycle bin...

I'll give that a try thanks...

'Fraid not. If I go into recycle bin I don't get the recycle bin, I get the explorer screen of the desktop, ie the window is actually labelled 'Desktop' not 'Recycle Bin' and there is no option to restore.

A neighbour appears to have put 'my pictures', 'my documents' etc into the recycle bin. The PC takes a long time to load XP with much 'beeping'. The result is that when clicking on the recycle bin icon you get an explorer screen of the desktop. If I try to go to properties of the recycle bin...

Thanks for the advice, it was actually black viper's tweaks that I was applying... Anyway I've found the offender. It was the Windows Image Acquisition service (WIA). It was originally 'disabled' but I set it to 'manual' start. On checking the services, this one showed as 'starting' but never...

I have been 'tweaking' my services, ie switching some to manual start. Now, when I right click on a file and the cursor passes over the 'send to' option in the drop down menu, the application freezes. It happens in all apps IE6, explorer, favourites, outlook express, desktop etc. Any ideas...

I have just set up a new development machine under XP for Progress 9.1C. I have previously designed objects which use the Microsoft comctl32.ocx (treeview etc). Now when I try to open the object I get a message 'the license file for the specified ActiveX control was not found'. Any ideas please?

linney Wow! this is going to take some time... I've checked out spybot and startup list and there's nothing very wierd in there. I've got a dozen or so unsigned drivers so it's going to take a while to work through them. Thanks very much and I'll report back.

Well, I tried everything in MSCONFIG but I've still got the problem... NTBTLOG.txt shows a few 'did not load driver...' lines but no errors. This is starting to bug me now! Any more ideas out there?

F8 is OK There's lots of options on MSCONFIG so I'll try some of those to see if I can make a differnce. I'll report back...

Thanks smash Answers...No scanner Registry says autocheck autochk * Now I must own up to not reading the screen on startup, it says... "We apologise for the inconvenience, but windows did not START successfully." It does not run chkdsk but waits for 30 secs for me to choose...

I suspect one of my kids has installed something that disagrees with Win XP Home. Now, whenever we start the PC, we get the message about windows not closing properly (which it does) and having to hit the button to start normally. Any way of re-setting the flag to stop it doing this? Or to...