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Location: Land of Oz
Registered: June 2004
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Windows XP Question
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Sat, 02 July 2005 10:30
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Hi,
My brother in law has a WinXP system. When he logs onto it as the Administrator it shows a message that says "Can't find 'C'"
If you hit the Okay button it disappears and everything runs fine.
I'm assuming that somewhere in the start programs the system is trying to call/start a program called "C", but as "C" doesn't exist it shows this message.
Exactly where do I find, in XP, where it is trying to call "C" so I can remove the entry and hopefully it will go away.
seeyuzz
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Registered: June 2003
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Re: Windows XP Question
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Sat, 02 July 2005 10:43
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Check msconfig under the startup tab.
Check autoexec.bat & config.sys.
Check start menu => programs => startup.
Check hklm => software => microsoft => windows => currentversion => run, in regedt32.
And if that still fails download a program call "Hijack this" and do a full scan. It should show up somewhere in that list.
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Location: Sydney
Registered: October 2003
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Re: Windows XP Question
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Sat, 02 July 2005 22:35
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^^^ good advice.
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Location: sydney,nsw.oz.
Registered: July 2002
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Re: Windows XP Question
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Sun, 03 July 2005 07:32
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Open Start Menu
Select Run
Type msconfig
Enter
System Config Utility will open.
Go to Startup Tab
All or any Startup Item can be disabled on boot from there.
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Registered: June 2003
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Re: Windows XP Question
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Sun, 03 July 2005 12:28
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Not entirely.
There are quite a few places that objects/files can be put to run, and running msconfig will not show all of these. It will get 95% of startup items though, which is why you always check there first.
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Registered: February 2005
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Re: Windows XP Question
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Sun, 03 July 2005 23:47
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Take a screen shot of the error dialog and post it up for us.
Could be anything. The guys are on the right track though, check everything in the startup tab of the System Config. Util and we can take it from there.
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Location: Hobart, Tasmania
Registered: January 2005
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Re: Windows XP Question
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Sun, 03 July 2005 23:50
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joorsh wrote on Sat, 02 July 2005 20:43 | Check msconfig under the startup tab.
Check autoexec.bat & config.sys.
Check start menu => programs => startup.
Check hklm => software => microsoft => windows => currentversion => run, in regedt32.
And if that still fails download a program call "Hijack this" and do a full scan. It should show up somewhere in that list.
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Do what that man said!
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Location: Sydney
Registered: May 2003
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Re: Windows XP Question
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Mon, 04 July 2005 03:43
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might be stupid yet is it asking for the C hdd ?
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Location: Sydney
Registered: September 2004
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Re: Windows XP Question
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Mon, 04 July 2005 18:49
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4DaDrift wrote on Mon, 04 July 2005 13:43 | might be stupid yet is it asking for the C hdd ?
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There's no such thing as a stupid question, only a newbie question.
Actually I guess there are such things as stupid questions lol.
Nah, it wouldn't come up with that error if it couldn't find a hard disk. That would be a BIOS detection issue, Windows would never know it was there if it wasn't first detected so you would never get that error.
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