re: NTFS security, hangs, dumps etc.
Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 12:50 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike
(1 messages posted)
I too have the fisrst problem you described. I used the restore option to go all
back to before the dump files started to be created and that did not work. Sending
the dump files to Microsoft has not helped. They have not returned a single thing
to try up to this point.
On Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 7:12 am, Tony wrote:
>Over the past few days I've had some very strange problems and also discovered some
>other oddities that beg for an explanation.
>
>The problem that prompted my further investigations is the illusive "windows has
>recovered from a serious error" that then creates a dump file in C:\WINDOWS\Minidump
>and also refers to some other nebulous file that doesn't seem to exist. I've tried
>all manner of trickery to try and find the source of this error with no luck. Some
>suggest this only occurs with Admin accounts and I would have to agree as it does
>not occur when I log in as a limited account user. I've performed a full chkdsk
>/f with no luck. I've uninstalled applications hoping for a voodoo cure with no
>luck. I've updated my m/b VIA drivers (4in1) and the problem went away for one
boot
>then came back. I really can't even pinpoint when the problem began but there were
>a few things I had done prior that I will list off just for kicks. SWINE (the game)
>had been hanging the machine multiple times. I had installed and messed with Tweak
>XP. I had installed Microsoft hotfixes and I had updated my NVidia Detonator drivers.
> Around this time I started noticing the odd startup dumps and I still have no path-forward
>on this error beyond a reinstall.
>
>Another issue I've come across that boggles the mind is that I have multiple user
>directories with the same name but with extensions like name, name.machinename,
and
>name.machinename.000 within "Documents and Settings". The very odd part is that
>as an admin user of the name "Bob", I cannot enter the "Bob" directory but can enter
>Bob.MyMachine and Bob.MyMachine.000. My initial thoughts are that I named the Admin
>account "Bob" and the "Bob" directory is the admins but I'm not sure about this.
> I'm adding this to my list of things I'll some day understand.
>
>
>Yet another problem is that when I disabled "Simple file sharing" I began noticing
>a user account with god-like "special" "inherited" access to most of my machine.
> This user appears with a question mark icon and had a name similar to "S-123-23215-3434234234324-343412-23"
> Try as I might to find the parent object which was asserting this user into my
inherited
>directories, I've been unable to remove this strange account. Perhaps I've been
>trojan'ed? I honestly don't know but another thought is that because this drive
>was previously an NTFS volume and was not formatted before I applied Windows XP,
>there are old volume policies hanging around.
>
>Here's another one! Internet explorer now hangs whenever I try to run any sort
of
>video on a website. In all my years I've never seen internet explorer hang trying
>to play embedded media.
>
>And finally, when I tried to run Tweak XP last night, the task hung and would never
>launch. I summarily uninstalled that application.
>
>I really don't have any outright questions because I've run out of questions to
ask.
> The most obvious solution for me at this point it to delete windows, documents
and
>settings and program files and reinstall XP from the ground up. I am hoping that
>with careful monitoring of everything I install, I should be able to track down
at
>least some of the causes for all of the above mentioned oddities but if anyone has
>something they'd like to add, please do so!
>
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