No problems on waiting, here

love them double post...........  

I have DWMAPI.DLL. only on my Vista (E:)drive. Not found on XP (C:) drive.

I havent checked for same problem in Vista..

Im having the problem on XP sp2 w\IE6.

I also find it odd that Camtasia is doing exactly the same thing. Showing in TM only.

no problems here.. yet (crosses fingers) xp home/sp2 stardock apps installed.. wb ip od+ impluse and of course sdc. good luck every one. (

ditto



No. Still unloading all the 'extras' HP loads into the PC, since I reformatted. I wanted to clean it up good before I started loading all the SD software again.

I am only running
Impulse
ObjectDock
CursorXP
nothing else. I haven't even downloaded anything else yet.

I also cut back on my security apps (on advice from yrag- I had way to many)
Currently running
AVAST
SPYBOT
ZONELARM FREE
SPYWAREBLASTER
CCLEANER

and also cut my FF add-ons way back. I had about 50 running and cut back to 15. I also deleted Real Player cause it wasa forever running in the background.

I don't know if any of this info will help or not.
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I really don't want to reformat again. It's taken me about 3 days to get things where I want them since the last restore. This blows. I've never gone this long without my SD app's . I don't know weather to load 'em all up again or wait til they figure out if it is a SD app causing the issue.

Worse case scenario...let's say it is an SD app. From what I went through, there turned out to be 16 errors on my HD that the manufacturer's diagnostic tool found..and then fixed. (I used SeaTools for Windows and SeaTools for DOS) If the app caused those errors, might I recommend that all experiencing this problem run a diagnostic on their HD. I have no way of knowing if I had done this PREVIOUS to the System Recovery if it would have fixed it and spared me all the the hassle of doing a System Recovery, but it may save someone else from going through what I went through.

And there's the rub...msconfig isn't the only thing disappearing. Others are related to:

> Search Companion
> User Accounts
> Windows Update
> Help and Support
> System Restore
> Media Player
> IE print function


John: Start/ Run: regsvr32 jscript.dll and try your cam app.

Negatory - No diff.

Help and Support went out on me, to.
So did defrag. The panel would show nothing was happening, but Winpatrol said the control panel was running and so was defrag.

Both are working fine now.

Your idea of 'cutting back' and mine are light years apart........  

Ya know I blamed Zubazski for this mess (just to make him feel better), but the truth of the matter is, this is all your fuckin' fault.........  

Damn....

John: are you the only user on your machine and do you want to try the system fix? All my machines are working properly so I have nothing to test it on.

I tried. I really did. It was hard. You don't know . I still have the Backzilla back up of my last FF settings. I can't bring myself to delete it.


Out of curiosity... I WAS able to bring up MSCONFIG with Launchy. I've been wondering if that's what hid it to begin with. Is anyone else running Launchy?

Hard to have anyone else on my machine when im on it 18 hours a day.

Bring it on.

    

Heard that.  

I'll PM it to you. It's not for the novice, but you should have no problems with it.