Windows XPPost your Windows XP related questions here.
Mission Statement
WindowsBBS is an online community dedicated to easily accessible technical support for those using Microsoft operating systems and other Windows software.
Our goal is to become the leading resource for computer users that require assistance with their day-to-day computer usage, including full support for networking PC's, virus & malware removal, system upgrades and general support questions.
Initialization Function InitHelperDll in IPMONTR.DLL failed to start with error code 11003
One or more essential parameters were not entered.
Verify the required parameters, and reenter them.
The syntax supplied for this command is not valid. Check help for the correct syntax.
Usage: reset [name=]<string>
Parameters:
Tag Value
name - The name of a file to which to append information
regarding what settings were reset.
Remarks: Resets TCP/IP and related components to a clean state.
I forgot what I was trying to. Just went and tryed to install ZoneAlarm. All went OK... UNTIL I got the following pop-up:
"Unable to connect to TrueVector Service - cannot configure access rules."
Which, of course, was followed by this pop-up:
"Error processing config file!"
ZoneAlarm then went through the rest of the install process.
However, this has been followed by the hour-glass coming on and off next to the mouse pointer as it tried to finish. This is corresponding with vsmon.exe trying to run (according to Windows Task Manager).
Just in case I got lucky, I rebooted. And my computer went
So... I guess I delete ZoneAlarm (again!), then try a Windows repair?
rt click in the open cmd screen and rt then paste
hit enter twice
Now repeat the same process with the below
----------------------------------------------------------
%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /c %windir%\system32\sc query type= service >"%USERPROFILE%"\Desktop\ScQuery.txt
----------------------------------------------------------
And this
----------------------------------------------------------
%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /c %windir%\system32\ipconfig /all >"%USERPROFILE%"\Desktop\ipfig.txt
----------------------------------------------------------
And this
----------------------------------------------------------
%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /c %windir%\system32\net use >"%USERPROFILE%"\Desktop\netuse.txt
----------------------------------------------------------
then
close cmd prompt
Now there are 3 new icons on the desktop Tasklist.txt, ScQuery.txt andipfig.txt
Post back contents of both!
Then back to DAF Hammerhead (2nd page) run
SFC Purge
then
SFC Scan
Bring me up to date as to what does and does not work!
You are in a bad way here, lots missing!
You need a "Repair install of XP" and no CD to do it with. Can you borrow one from some one. If you do you will need your Microsoft Key and will have to re-activate.
I also wish you would get completely rid of ZA until the computer is fixed of everything else.
Try this (as I am not sure what all works on your computer now).
Uninstall ZA again.
Reboot then do a windows search with advanced options for Zone*.* and truev*.* and vsmon*.* and delete all that apply to ZoneAlarn, Truevector and Vsmon.
The use regseeker or Regedit to serarch for the same and delete from registry (don't use *.* in reg search).
Look in Device manager for any device errors (yellow Exclamations or Red X's) uninstall them.
Only after the above:
Go into Device manager and uninstall the Network card and hope it reinstalls on boot.
You know when you hit that certain point in trying to find a way to fix something and you just know there has to be some way to do it but everything points to (in the case of computers) "You need the CD that you've misplaced so you are S.O.L., buddy!" but you know, deep in your heart, that somebody, somewhere actually put an ememgency escape hatch in place for those of us who have trouble with any book in the "The Complete Idiots Guide..." series, and then you happen to stumble across one little line buried deep within the support pages for your computer... and you say to yourself, because your wife really doesn't want to hear from you since, obviously, YOU messed up the computer AGAIN and she's feeling really bad because she KNOWS you really want to blame the kids AGAIN but they're away at camp, "NO, it can't be this simple, can it?"
Gateway has it's own "restore" program, right on the hard drive. And yes, I knew it was there. However, I thought you RAN it from the "D:" drive. Oops.
So, as I type this, Gateway's restore seemed to be working...
... except we are now stuck at "Application 6 of 70".
So... I'm off to see if Gateway can help me get things progressing.
1 - Sometimes you get lucky. I restarted the computer. It continued to load Windows...
2 - This computer had been "qwirky" for a while. Don't ignore "qwirks".
3 - Teenagers. 'Nuf said.
4 - Looks like I only lost the stuff on my Desktop. Unfortunately, I had a lot there. My teenagers thought that was dumb.
OK while stable (appearently) finish cleaning ZA. I really beleive that was the beginning of your problem.
Let me know and I will give the deep clean instructions for ZA.
It needs to be deeply cleaned. Even if (pray not) you are going to reinstall it instead of a good Firewall like Comodo!
From your description it sounds like you blew your Logon Profile and if so:
Run My Computer- Tools-Folder Options-View. Select Show hidden files and folders.
Then browse to C:\Documents and Folders, look at the profile names, you likely have one named Deck (or what ever logon name you were using) and another with the same name with and extension like Deck.abcde.
If so the Deck.abcde is now your logon and your old Desktop files will be in
C:\Documents and Folders\Deck\Desktop! Copy these files to a folder (not Desktop) the kids were right.
If you do have this Deck.abcde (automaticly created by Windows) (the abcde is an example) it could be the computername etc. Then let me know after you retrieve your desktop files and I will give you directions to correct it.
I was away most of last week. This week I'll be catching up and moving on...
1st: migrating to my Vista machine as my primary computer.
2nd: locating the CD that came with the (now almost useless) XP computer.
3rd: switching the rest of my computers to Comodo (which IS on the Gateway XP)
(I did look for profile names --- there isn't any)
While the (now "old") Gateway XP computer is now running, it is right now just a holding center of everything that was on it (and saved from destruction). Once I find the lost CD, then perhaps I can get everything working on it again.
I do want to go through and make sure that ZoneAlarm is indeed gone for good on it. I will also want to do the same on my other computers as I change them over to Comodo. So, if you could, I'd really like the instructions for fully removing ZoneAlarm.
And now, since it's "off-topic" here, I'm off to get advice on email on Vista...
(and has there been a change on the board, or did I miss a memo, or... ? I keep having to re-log in to the board if I haven't "done" anything in a few minutes...)
