Service Control Manager not found; Perfdisk waiting time expired.

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My friend's computer win2000, sp4, gives various one line errors,
citing a hex address. I wanted to reinstall windows over the current
windows. ;)

Dave wanted me to look at the event manager. It was late and they
rushed me out, but two showed up repeatedly:

1) "Service Control Manager not found".

2) "The timeout waiting for the performance data collection function
"PerfDisk" in the "C:\WINNT\system32\perfdisk.dll" Library to finish
has expired."

In addition, he cannot print or install another printer, apprarently
because spoolsv.exe is not running and when started, will only run for
a little bit or until I start to install another printer.

Anything these might share in common?
 
These ones may help but this isn't related to the printer issue you mention.
spools.exe should log a system event when it dies possibly along with others
of value. When you view the logged events in Event Viewer (double-click them
in the right-hand pane) in the upper right corner, third button down is a
copy to clipboard, then you can paste in the body of a reply message.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152513
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...83-b7ec-4da6-92ab-793193604ba4&displaylang=en



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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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These ones may help but this isn't related to the printer issue you mention.
spools.exe should log a system event when it dies possibly along with others
Click to expand...

Yes, I think there was an entry for that the last time I looked, but
because I didn't have much time this time, I didn't try anything
regarding the printer.
of value. When you view the logged events in Event Viewer (double-click them
in the right-hand pane) in the upper right corner, third button down is a
copy to clipboard, then you can paste in the body of a reply message.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152513
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...83-b7ec-4da6-92ab-793193604ba4&displaylang=en
Click to expand...

Thanks a lot. I'm looking at them and having my friend look too.
 
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