lay off the weed mate...







On Friday, October 27, 2006 at 3:34 pm, Howard Stolle wrote:

>I've been on about 6 service calls for this problem and the reason has always been 

>the same.  A registry scanner mis-identifed the .dll file that controls

>C:\windows\system32\devmgmt file which controls device manager, defragment and administrators 

>console under control panel.  If you catch it you can use the registry scanner back-up 

>to restore the missing .dll and incrementally manually delete registry errors until 

>the offending deletion is isolated and made to be ignored in future scans.

>

>If it's been too long the only solid fix is to get a bootable disk and use DOS in 

>command prompt to transfer another copy of the file.  If you're successful the configuration 

>screens will re-appear as if your doing a full operating system install and you'll 

>have to re-configure all your hardware.

>

>You CANNOT take a copy from a buddy's machine unless he has the EXACT same hardware 

>you have and this is unlikely.  If you do you'll be wondering why all your drives 

>are acting very strangely.  No 2 people have their machines configured the same. 

> A good analogy would be a fingerprint...each one has ridges and lines and grooves 

>but no 2 are identical.

>

>If you cannot get a new copy the only true fix is to format the hard drive, remove 

>all partitions and do a complete clean install where Windows reads that the hard 

>drive is "raw" and is seeing it like it would see a new hard drive.

>

>

>Hope this helps..........

>Howie..........Eastern PC Plus@aol.com 

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