for some reason when I restart my computer, system32 file is open. It started doing it after I updated windows. Any ideas on what is opening it??
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for some reason when I restart my computer, system32 file is open. It started doing it after I updated windows. Any ideas on what is opening it??
Hi webwurm99
Can you give us a few more details please................how did you detect this?
As far as I know "System32" is a pretty fundamental modern windows file.............if it DID NOT open, then Windows would not start?
You need to look at running services, processes, applications?
Also, it helps if you say which version of Windows you are running (and service packs) ;)
Cheers :)
OK heres the story I had my local cable company come hook up broadband this weekend :)
When they were here they screwed up my winsock file. Dell tech support told me to delete my hard drive partition then didnt call me back. I reinstalled windows myself and started updating.
After a few updates and restarts is when i began to see the C:\windows\system32 folder open on startup telling me not to modify it. Then I tried a system restore to try and stop it so I am back to windows xp pro service pack 1
oh and thank you for the reply
Hi webwurm99
Whilst I am more than willing to help, as are a lot on this forum, I do believe that you should tell the cable company to fix it................hey, they are charging?...............maybe your local TV/RADIO/PRESS...............? commercial companies really love bad publicity...........
OH!............where in the USA are you..............I am only interested in the time zone............here I am GMT or GMT+1(daylight saving)
:)
Let me know what the cable company say.................DELL.....................support.............you managed to get those two words closer than I did :D
Cheers
I was too angry that they were touching my computer in the first place!!!! When I called the cable company before they told me to call Dell. Now Ive been at this since saturday morning , and I fear Ill never get this thing running like new again.
I live in Grand Junction, Colorado near the rocky Mountains
Hi webwurm99
And you are a member of AO...............hell's teeth man, we ban Trolls...........but you are talking treason here?.............Quote:
and I fear Ill never get this thing running like new again.
From what I have seen on TV, Colorado is pure gorgeous.................a small place there and a small cactus ranch in Texas (<10 square miles)
Serious now,
Please tell your cable company to fix it................forget DELL...................it is really not their problem?
Incidentally, what happens if you try the phone link...............that might be your old 56.6 connection?
Cheers :)
Colorado is GMT -6?
GMT-7
I fear it isnt the cable companies problem, either my internet works after all. I discussed it with the tech I talked to last. The cable company was the last people I called .
I can fix it (with help) I just lack confidence.
OK webwurm99
Time you were in bed....................I will post back later, and I hope that we can resolve this thing?
Am I right in thinking that you can connect to the internet OK, but the "strange" folder/file is the issue?
Cheers
Johnno :)
Internet works fine. The problem is the C:\windows\system32 \ folder. Every time I log on to my Admon acct on windows it opens. Just like I were to go to run then type "system32", the folder is opened saying "these files are hidden" "this folder contains files that keep your system working properly" "You should not modify its contents"
and I dont want to modify its contents so I dont want it to open.
Hi,
OK I see the problem................will have to wait as I am doing Windows 2000 stuff at the moment, so both online boxes are running that. I will fire up an XP Pro tonight and take a look.......in the meantime, use your admin (you weren't logged in as admin?) :D to create a new account with admin rights............let me know what that one opens :)
new account works great . thats all I need for now. thank you for your time. I look forward to more
posts soon.
Good job on the fix Nihil.
Post-game wrapup:
What happened:
1. The cable company screwed up your winsock - it was originally their problem to fix.
2. The cable company told you to call Dell - them trying to pass the buck.
3. Dell had you delete the partition. now you're really screwed.
What should've happened (take note for next time):
1. The cable company screwed up your winsock - it was their problem to fix.
2. Either the cable company fixes the problem, or you download a new winsock and install it yourself, then sue the crap out of the cable company for damaging your system. They're insured against said liabilities for that particular reason. Max damages: $1500 in small claims court for a new system - more than that and you'd have to hire a lawyer who'd tell you you'd pay him more than you'd win.
Hi |3lack|ce
I know that we are a security site, but fixing stuff is what we do?.............it "could" have been a security issue?.............sometimes figuring out that it is not, is the breakthrough?
I was rather upset with his cable company, as I am sure you gathered :D ................I must be at least 30 minutes on an ICBM from the guy (I was offered a job as test pilot), and I can help, yet they can/will not?
In the immortal words of Bill the Cat: Ack! Phttt!
Errrrrrrrrr..............webwurm99 are you sure it was the cable guy?.............sounds more like you got "Leisure Suit Larry in the land of the Lounge Lizards"...........now that DOES date me?
:p :D
Stay cool and keep posting...............
Google turned this up
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...+startup&meta=
Place to start
In the NT days this would happen when the RUN reg key was pointing to something that was no longer installed...and startup was still looking for it....
MLF
nihil - absolutely we fix stuff - hence this:
which is what I would've done in that situation. Full XP Reinstall is a last-resort scenario, but unfortunately these days it seems it's the first thing folks try (re: dell's "advice"). Yes, the tech (and his associated cable company) deserves bitchslapping. I would most definitely look into how much I'd been damaged monetarily (at a fat $250/hour of labor for the reinstall/fix) and take legal action. The downside is that he'll probably have to find another hispeed isp (and open himself to further risk). ICBM test pilot - hmm...sounds like a somewhat "dead-end" job as it were. :D I *Still* have my copies of leisure suit larry btw... they're fun on my old dos box. (you ain't THAT old yet) :PQuote:
or you download a new winsock and install it yourself
Morgan - you're most likely right, but again my fix would've been to reinst winsock, thereby giving XP's registry something that was really there during startup. 2 diff ways of arriving at the same point. Your fix, however, would be easier but more time consuming.
Now a query for the class just to brush up on my own knowledge:
What if I had no alternate method of downloading winsock and I wanted to extract it (and only it) from my XP cd? Is possible and how?
What I would do
Remove TCP\IP
reboot
and reinstall TCP\IP...reapply SP
I believe that this would fix the problem...rebuilding the protocol stack and bindings???
MLF
You could check to see if there is a runaway startup setting in MSCONFIG? Maybe it's pointing to System32, or to something incorrectly, and Windoze decides to show you the system folder instead?
I say you should invest in Windows RG: Really Good edition: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg.php
A_T
So my answer was wrong?
:)
nuff said?Quote:
Good job on the fix Nihil.
Can you believe the cable company said "we hooked up the modem and thats all you paid us for."
I was disgusted
The real network problem was two limitations on my internet account so my ip address would expire after 20 seconds.
The ip would then switch to 169...
when the cable company teletech heard that he figured it was a windows problem.
then the dell tech told me to delete the hard drive partition.
It has been frustratingly fun though
thanks again for the input
p.s. ive looked for a more general board to use but I cant seem to find the caliberof people from AO anywhere else