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September 12th, 2005, 07:42 PM
#1
Junior Member
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September 12th, 2005, 07:51 PM
#2
Reset the bios in a manner consistent with the manufacturer's recommendation. If this doesn't solve the issue, try "chkdsk /r", if this fixes the problem, get a new hard drive.
cheers,
catch
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September 12th, 2005, 08:14 PM
#3
If I'm reading ok he just f'kt up some windows dll or exe while doing his "start button trick"..
What is that a start button trick, hex editing some .exe or .dll (put in an ASCII character 32 instead of a NULL) ?
Did you make a backup of the file(s) before editing ?
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.
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September 12th, 2005, 08:22 PM
#4
I did the start button trick on my sister's emachine
Can you clarify exactly what you did?
*edit*
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September 12th, 2005, 08:34 PM
#5
I did the start button trick many times, never fu*ked up my system, so i think you did something else, or changed the wrong values in the dll....
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September 12th, 2005, 09:21 PM
#6
I think what he means by the start button trick is how you can change that registry value and make it where u can put anything text wise into the start bar.... example: instead of start it would say GO! but thats just my guess...
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September 12th, 2005, 10:34 PM
#7
Look at the symptoms, not the user's alleged cause.
cheers,
catch
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September 13th, 2005, 01:16 PM
#8
I don't think we can really help you until you explain in detail what you did in this "start button trick".
As far as the install CD goes, it will reinstall the files from the CD, but it will keep your settings from your current install, which is what is screwed up.
I would venture to guess the best way to fix this is through a BartPE disc and a remote registry editor, but thats assuming that you changed something in the registry. Let us know what you did.
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September 14th, 2005, 05:33 AM
#9
The Start button trick is when you hex edit Explorer.exe to change the text
to something else. The characters are unicode 16 bit values instead of ascii
So I can see if you screw up the second byte of a char it won't be right.
It seems odd that it would prevent explorer from loading though.
Anyway, you just need to extract a fresh copy from your install cd.
Somebody help, I'm not a Windows expert. You just need to replace
explorer.exe with a good copy.
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September 14th, 2005, 07:45 PM
#10
Junior Member
Sorry I was gone for a bit. Now this is what I did exactly:
1) Rebooted and held F8
2) Started up in Safe Mode DOS under Administrator
3) cd\
4)cd windows
5)attrib -r explorer
6)edit /70 explorer.exe
(clubs symbol)S t a r t
(this appears on line: 3824 in Windows XP Home)
If you click on the spaces between the letters it should be Value: 0 for a NULL.
I used del to take out the S and type in another letter, then after that is where I messed up.
Instead of highlighting a null, copying and pasting it after the new letters I used to replace "S t a r t" I used the space bar to keep the space in between. After the desktop didn't show up (xcept for the background picture, I restarted and tried to change back what I did. The prob is I had a few times where your thumb hits the space bar more than intended and I didn't care to count the times I did that. Now, for some strange reason, after I restarted, hoping I did right, I can't even load in dos.
When I attempt to:
the lines of data go by at the beggining and it stops after loading "mup.sys"
another problem, the eMachines/windows XP startup disc claims to have sucessfully loaded to the harddrive, erasing everything from the partitions and so on, starting on a clean slate, but then after the disc is through, the system restarts and the problem's still there.
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