Vista Meltdown...

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I am now experiencing a gradual Vista meltdown of sorts...programs that were
running on startup are disappearing, literally!

For example, I have a Keyspan print server installed and working. Now, it
does not appear in my start menu. I can navigate to it, find the file folder
manually, and launch the program, but it is gone from the program listing.
Now, PC Cillin has disappeared as well and I am showing a security alert for
no anti virus installed.

Ding from Southwest is gone too and I am having hella problems getting COD 2
and COD UO to launch at all. I guess Beta 2 wasn't for me...

Good luck, unless anyone has heard of this craziness...
 
I would try a system restore and if that doesn't help you may be able to
correct some of this with Startup repair:

What It Can Do:

If you run Win RE's Startup Repair in Vista, it will try to check and repair
the following and we're taking about under three minutes usually when it
works which is often: (this is not a complete list but a list of major tasks
it can perform):

Registry Corruptions

Missing/corrupt driver files (you don't have to guess here--it looks at all
of them

Missing/corrupt system files (disabled in Beta 2 as is System File Checker
but present newer builds)

Incompatible Driver Installation

Incompatible OS update installations

Startup Repair may offer a dialogue box to use System restore.

How to Use Startup Repair:

***Accessing Windows RE (Repair Environment):***

1) Insert Media into PC (the DVD you burned)

2) ***You will see on the Vista logo setup screen after lang. options in the
lower left corner, a link called "System Recovery Options."***

Screenshot: System Recovery Options (Lower Left Link)
http://blogs.itecn.net/photos/liuhui/images/2014/500x375.aspx

Screenshot: (Click first option "Startup Repair"
http://www.leedesmond.com/images/img_vista02ctp-installSysRecOpt2.bmp

3) Select your OS for repair.

4) Its been my experience that you can see some causes of the crash from
theWin RE feature:

You'll have a choice there of using:

1) Startup Repair
2) System Restore
3) Complete PC Restore

Good luck,

CH
 
Ret--

I'm sure this goes without saying, but I would urge to run 2-3 spyware
scans, and regular AV scans. I would reflexly recommend that you run System
File Checker, but as of Beta 2 or 5384.5 whatever teams are responsible for
getting it working had not been able to, so I'm unable to recommend it for
that build. I fully believe that whether they fix it or not, they are
determined to ship it broken if necessary. People will begin to ID in vivid
detail an extensive list of what's broken,not fixed, was not included in
Vista no matter how much MSFT hides its bugs and their context from the
public.

If you're not familiar it is supposed to scan file signatures and replace
good ones with bad from DLLCache in the System 32 folder. In XP it was one
of your best resources. In Vista many of its switches remain broken in the
bum's rush to RTM.

CH
 
Thanks, Chad. I am using Build 5384, and I do not have that option. Is
there another way to get it?

Thanks!
 
Thanks, Chad. I am using Build 5384, and I do not have that option. Is
there another way to get it?

Thanks!
 
You can get to Startup Repair as the directions say Ret by installing the
DVD if you have a DVD and I have screenshots for where you access it.

***You will see on the Vista logo setup screen after lang. options in the
I urge you to give it a try because there is no downside.

CH
 
you need to boot from dvd to get the start up repair option. reading the dvd
from inside vista does not give you the option.
 
That's included in any reference I make to StR.

***Accessing Windows RE (Repair Environment):

*1) Insert Media into PC (the DVD youburned)

2) ***You will see on the Vista logo setup screen after lang. options in
the
lower left corner, a link called "System Recovery Options."***

CH
 
My Dell laptop (Inspiron 6000) hasn't melted yet, but I had a battery failure
a few months ago. The battery was stuck on 75% charged and would not work.

I called Dell on a Saturday and had a new battery by Tuesday.

I found later that the battery is now being recalled.
 
Your new battery was made by the same company Sony, who made all the old
ones. I read detailed articles that their was a mysterious manufacturing
lesion 6/2,500,000 so far, but one of the six dramatically burned up a guy's
truck, and set off his ammo in the glove compartment--always have plenty of
ammo in the glove compartment cause there's terrrrrrrisssssssts and ya never
know when ya might have to fight 'em over heah instead of look for them when
they're 6'4" attached to a dyalisis machine and a posse including several
wives and children over theah.

If you're on a camping trip, you have an automatic way to get a fire going.

The battery problem was caused by terrrrrrrissssssts invading George Bush
country in Austin Texas and trying to poison the company controlled by the
Bush Rangers Susan and Mike Dell. This is due to infiltration of Sony by
terrrrrrrrissssssstssss.

CH

Congrats to Senator George Allen who threw away his ridiculous hopes to run
for Republican President by allowing one Racist statement to escape from his
ID. Would daddy big George the football coach, have been as proud as when he
smashed neighbors' mail boxes who were Packer fans?

Fortunately, there are more important things for this country to do. It's
high time that all TV stations are comitted to the 10 year anniversary of
the Ramseys horrible ordeal. Once again, law enforcement has reared its
head saying the Ramseys were guilty, they were fried for 10 years by the
darlings of the media, by Vanity Fair, by every media outlet, by all the
talkking heads on TV incuring millions of dollars in billing from Lin Wood
one of their attorneys and numerous PR concerns, but now we have non-stop
press conferences with a suspect and no evidence. Evidence is not important
for a media frenzy. A warm body is.

1) No DNA evidence has yet been proferred.
2) Guy's wife says he wasn't in Colorado during any day Christmas season.
3) No other evidence has been presented.
4) The roads of criminal law are littered with false confessions in high
profile cases. It probably doesn't get you Vista RTM Ultimate faster, but
some people endeavor to do it.
There are a cascade of other discrepancies, but that doesn't stop the media
from running with it because they think you're stupid and you don't read.

And to counter the onslaught of the media and every branch of law
enforcement known to man who in 10 years can get a new suspect but can't
find Bin Ladin, not that it would necessarily help anything because
recruitment would jump exponentially and there are thousands to take his
place and the money (his fortune) had been carefully hidden away.

Congratulations USA--you have reached the highest number of Civilian Deaths
in July as any month in Iraq. The National Republican Party has endorsed
Joe Leiberman (lol) in Conneticut in honor of his support. They will not be
supporting the Republican candidate, because primary voters shouldn't make
the choices in American politics--gerrymandering should--and Joe could break
a one vote tie in the Senate.


I'd like to congratulate the United States of America for setting a record
for Iraqui civilian deaths which now total 10X the military deaths which are
a part of the Bush adminstration's continual death march.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Number of Civilian Deaths Highest in July, Iraqis Say
By EDWARD WONG and DAMIEN CAVE
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 15 - July appears to have been the deadliest month of
the war for Iraqi civilians, according to figures from the Health Ministry
and the Baghdad morgue, reinforcing criticism that the Baghdad security plan
started in June by the new government has failed.

An average of more than 110 Iraqis were killed each day in July, according
to the figures. The total number of civilian deaths that month, 3,438, is a
9 percent increase over the tally in June and nearly double the toll in
January.

The rising numbers suggested that sectarian violence is spiraling out of
control, and seemed to bolster an assertion many senior Iraqi officials and
American military analysts have made in recent months: that the country is
already embroiled in a civil war, not just slipping toward one, and that the
American-led forces are caught between Sunni Arab guerrillas and Shiite
militias.

The numbers also provide the most definitive evidence yet that the Baghdad
security plan started by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on June 14 has
not quelled the violence. The plan, promoted by top Iraqi and American
officials at the time, relied on setting up more Iraqi-run checkpoints to
stymie insurgents.

The officials have since acknowledged that the plan has fallen far short of
its aims, forcing the American military to add thousands of soldiers to the
capital this month and to back away from proposals for a withdrawal of some
troops by year's end.

The Baghdad morgue reported receiving 1,855 bodies in July, more than half
of the total deaths recorded in the country. The morgue tally for July was
an 18 percent increase over June.

The American ambassador said in an interview last week that Iraq's political
leaders had failed to use their influence fully to rein in the soaring
violence, and that people associated with the government were stoking the
flames of sectarian hatred.

"I think the time has come for these leaders to take responsibility with
regard to sectarian violence, to the security of Baghdad at the present
time," said the ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad

The American military in recent weeks has been especially eager to prove
that Baghdad can be tamed if American troops are added to the streets and
take a more active role - in effect, a repudiation of earlier efforts to
turn over security more quickly to Iraqis.

The American command has added nearly 4,000 American soldiers to Baghdad by
extending the tour of a combat brigade. Under a new security plan aimed at
overhauling Mr. Maliki's efforts, some of the city's most violent southern
and western areas are now virtually occupied block-to-block by American and
Iraqi forces, with entire neighborhoods transformed into miniature police
states after being sealed off by blast walls and concertina wire.

When the tally for civilian deaths in July is added to the Iraqi government
numbers for earlier months obtained by the United Nations, the total
indicates that at least 17,776 Iraqi civilians died violently in the first
seven months of this year, or an average of 2,539 per month.

The Health Ministry did not provide figures for people wounded by attacks in
Baghdad but said that at least 3,597 Iraqis were hurt outside the city in
July, a 25 percent increase over June.

United Nations officials and military analysts say the morgue and ministry
numbers almost certainly reflect severe undercounting, caused by the
haphazard nature of information in a war zone.

Many casualties in areas outside Baghdad probably never appear in the
official count, said Anthony H. Cordesman, a military analyst at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies, a research group in Washington.
That helps explain why fatalities in Baghdad appear to account for such a
large percentage of the total number, he said in a recent report.

The United Nations has been tracking civilian casualty figures by collating
numbers from the Health Ministry and Baghdad morgue. Last month, it
announced that the Iraqi government's numbers indicated that 3,149 violent
deaths had occurred in June, or an average of more than 100 per day.

The statistics were significantly higher than previous civilian death tolls,
and indicated that the news media had drastically underreported the level of
violence in Iraq. The United States government and military have declined to
release overall figures on Iraqi civilian casualties, or even say whether
they are keeping count.

But Iraqi and American officials agree that civilian deaths had been much
lower before wide-scale sectarian violence erupted after the Feb. 22 bombing
of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, and has only gotten worse.

In recent weeks, Ambassador Khalilzad and top generals have warned that the
country could slide toward full-blown civil war, especially if the capital
continued fragmenting into ethnic or sectarian enclaves controlled by
militias, as has been happening for months.

Much of the responsibility rests on Iraqi politicians, many of whom have
ties to militias, Mr. Khalilzad said. "I believe that there have been forces
associated with people in the government from both the Shia and Sunni sides
that have participated in this," he said of the violence.

Iraqi politicians are furiously lashing out at one another. On Monday, the
speaker of Parliament, a conservative Sunni Arab, said he was considering
stepping down because of animosity from the Kurdish and Shiite political
blocs.

The move to oust the speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, appears to have thrown
the Sunni Arab bloc he belongs to, the Iraqi Consensus Front, into disarray.
On Tuesday, a senior member of the bloc, Khalaf al-Elayan, said the bloc
rejected any call for Mr. Mashhadani's resignation. Another Sunni leader,
Adnan al-Dulaimi, said in an interview that Mr. Mashhadani should step down.
Mr. Dulaimi is considered a possible replacement.

In Karbala, Shiite gunmen and Iraqi military forces exchanged gunfire for
several hours near one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines. Witnesses said the
fighting forced the Iraqi Army to block entrances to the city and impose a
curfew, prohibiting all cars and warning residents not to carry guns.

In Mosul, a suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives, killing
at least 5 civilians and wounding nearly 50 near the offices of the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the party of President Jalal Talabani.

One of the deadliest attacks in recent weeks took place in southern Baghdad
on Sunday night, when bombs, mortars and rockets killed at least 57 people
in a Shiite neighborhood, according to Iraqi officials. The American
military said Tuesday that the death toll had grown to at least 63 and that
the cause had been identified: two car bombs that ignited a gas line.

A day earlier, the American military had said the deaths were due solely to
a gas-main explosion and not to any attack. A spokesman now says that
conclusion was based on "incomplete information."

The well-organized attack came despite the fact that American and Iraqi
troops have flooded areas of southern Baghdad.

Sahar Nageeb and Qais Mizher contributed reporting for this article.

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