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    Shutdown problem crashes resolved

    The mystery of the shutdown crashes appears to be over now. I thought I'd post this message to advise those who had helped me what the problem and solution was. My very long thread started some weeks ago was frustrating me no end in my attempts to resolve the strange crashing during shutdown...
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    Dr. Watson log - can any7one read it and advise

    Studuc, I don't really have a place to load the file into. Ron +++++++++++++++++++++++ Linney, Thahks for the links. As has been the history of my shutdown crashing, the various MS docs talk about losing permission to access things, and causing the shutdown to crash with the "winlogon.exe"...
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    Dr. Watson log - can any7one read it and advise

    Well, my old shutdown crashes returned after a fair number of days without them. The reference is again to "winlogon.exe". Below are the first few lines of the Dr. Watson log during the last shutdown crash. I'm only posting these few lines, as the full log is quite large. Can anyone tell...
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    Manual uninstalling of programs

    Hi Bob, Thanks for your reply I downloaded Unlocker some time ago, but haven't had the need to use yet. I originally downloaded it for the situation when a USB device says it's "busy", and can't be safely removed, I can understgand that it also can be used to remove files which can defy...
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    Manual uninstalling of programs

    Bob, I finally got True Image uninstalled. I did all the manual deletions, except for one Registry entry which absolutely refused to be deleted. It's an entry for the "scheduler". A Ccleaner scan then picked up a lot of other Reg entries, and it took care of all of them nicely. Now when I...
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    Manual uninstalling of programs

    Hi Bob, I installed Revo. It does look interesting. The program that has been a problem is Acronis True Image 11. It's been freezing up. It wouldn't uninstall via its own uninstall option. Nor will it REPAIR via its option. Nor can I Install it via its option. And Add/Remvoe programs won't...
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    Synchronize OE messages to other computers

    Hi Linney, I have not as yet tried this out. But it sure seems like it should work OK. And if it does, my scripts for synchronizing all my other stuff can take care of the OE messages also. I did learn that if I imported the complete list of files from my main computer folder, that all...
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    Manual uninstalling of programs

    Hi Bob, The Revo program looks interesting, and I downloaded it. Am I correct in that it cannot do its work if the program to be uninstalled was installed before Revo was present, as it won't have any install record info to go by? Ron
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    Synchronize OE messages to other computers

    Is there anything wrong with this workflow to keep machines synchronized? I have 3 machines that I would like to synchronize to my primary system. I have the complete folder of all message subfolders copied to a USB drive. 1. On machine #2, go into the store folder for OE, and with OE not...
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    Manual uninstalling of programs

    Very often a program will not really uninstall properly via the usual Windows/Add Remove programs listing, or even the Uninstall capability of programs like Ccleaner. To do the job manually, it's usually necessary to delete the complete program folder, and then remove all the Registry entries...
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    Windows Defender & security software

    Hi Linney, Thanks as usual for your feedback. As I originally commented, I found ver 1.5 of SpyBot too active, and it does consume lots of resources. I removed it when I was doing all my activities re my shutdown crashes. While I have plenty of resources, it overdoes things. I still have the...
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    Windows Defender & security software

    Bob, Thanks for your reply. You will find that Spybot ver 1.5 is a totally different program from 1.4. It's different as night and day. Ver 1.5 is very "active". It apparently classifies DoubleClick as a "bad guy". Google of course now owns DoubleClick, and there has been lots of discussion...
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    Windows Defender & security software

    I use a variety of security software to protect my system - XP Pro SP2, fully patched. The programs include 1. AVG 7.5 Professional (paid) version 2. WinPatrol Plus (paid version) 3. Zone Alarm 7.0.408 (free version) 4. AVG Anti Rootkit (free) 5. Spyware Blaster (free) 6. SpyBot Search &...
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    Strange shutdown error message in XP Pro

    Hi Linney, I did start a new thread with the icon question in it. There was a little typo in the thread name. But you will see it on the second pages of messages in this forum. This message thread has really gotten to be a very large one. :-) I save "stuff" by printing out to PDF, and keep a...
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    Strange shutdown error message in XP Pro

    Hi Linney, I have a good feeling about the problem resolution. But, I've had earlier times when the problem disappeared for a few days, and then returned. But, since I have done a very extensive REPAIR of XP, I have high hopes that the work I've done currently has indeed fixed things. XP...
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