Disconnecting .. and other

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Hi everybody,
due to a failed installation of a hp printer driver, Vista Home Basic now
has some trouble:
- the printer is not installed
- running 'Activities' I see the icon on the tray area but i have not the
main window
- but first of all, on the power off task, Vista shows the 'Disconnecting'
message, the 'ring' is alive, but it never end. I need to push the power
button for 5 secs.

How can i know which process is hanging?
Is there a log for the power down tasks ?

Thanks
 
SteM said:
Hi everybody,
due to a failed installation of a hp printer driver, Vista Home Basic now
has some trouble:
- the printer is not installed
- running 'Activities' I see the icon on the tray area but i have not the
main window
- but first of all, on the power off task, Vista shows the 'Disconnecting'
message, the 'ring' is alive, but it never end. I need to push the power
button for 5 secs.

How can i know which process is hanging?
Is there a log for the power down tasks ?

Thanks
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Do you have a recent restore poitnf rom before the printer was intsalled?

Saucy
 
Saucy said:
Do you have a recent restore poitnf rom before the printer was intsalled?

Saucy
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I guess no, is there a tool to see a restore point?
Are they similar to the XP ones ?
 
SteM said:
I guess no, is there a tool to see a restore point?
Are they similar to the XP ones ?
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Start > All Programs > System Tools > System Restore

As you go through the steps there should be a list of Restore Points. Select
the one most recent but before the mess-up.

Saucy
 
Saucy said:
Start > All Programs > System Tools > System Restore

As you go through the steps there should be a list of Restore Points. Select
the one most recent but before the mess-up.

Saucy
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ok, thanks .. but it had a problem: it did not work.
Some applets like Network, eventviewer, rstrui.exe, sfc.exe did not work.
So i decided to disable all the services and enable three or four services a
time and reboot, just to detect which of them could generate problems.
Unfortunately it is a very long time consuming technique but right now i
have only a dozen of services disable and the system is working.
My guess is that the problem is around to the Windows event handling: when i
have enabled service called 'Windows events registry' or ' Windows events
Collection' (or similar, sorry the name i see is in my local lang), i have
the problem, when they are disabled, no.
Today i will check the remaining services but i'm confident the problem is
the above.

How can i correct this kind of fail ?
Thanks !
 
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