Re: Application configuration



"steam3801" wrote:

On Sat, 27 May 2006 19:01:01 -0700, NewWaveBossaNova
<NewWaveBossaNova@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - in a blinding flash of
brilliance - wrote:

Very big problem...

A lot of applications won't work, suddenly my XP Home edition has a login
screen that looks like XP Professional and when shutting down, the shut down
is a XP Professional shut down screen but it still says home edition on that
and the login screen.

I cannot open applications like Firefox and media players. The error message
says the path name of the program, and then says "This application has failed
to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the
application may fix this problem."

I googled to find something that might help, but didn't find anything
clear... Everything I saw had something to do with C++ and Visual C++ and
maybe Visual Basic, I'm not sure...

After looking around, I saw that it might help if I used this program,
Dependency Walker, to find what modules the applications relied on to
function... At first it said the applications were missing efsadu.dll and
msjava.dll so I downloaded this and copied them to the WINDOWS folder, system
folder, and system32 folder...
Then it said they were missing mpr.dll and I downloaded and copied it into
the same directories, except it was already in the system32 folder and was
already in use...

I'm stuck... I reformatted a few weeks ago and I don't want to reformat
again...

Do you have auto updates set to on? If so, when was the last auto
update run, and what was included in it?
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steam3801
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On Sat, 27 May 2006 23:09:01 -0700, NewWaveBossaNova
<NewWaveBossaNova@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - in a blinding flash of
brilliance - wrote:

Yes, Auto Updates are set to on but I forget what the last download was. If
the what I'm reading in the System Restore menu is what we're looking for, it
looks like Friday May 19 was the last update and it had "Software
Distribution Service" in it? I don't think that's it though. So Auto Updates
may have something to do with this?

Oh yes, in deedy-deed I do diddly-oo do. And more than likely
something to do with one (or both) of versions of .Net you've got
installed (1.1 or 2)
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steam3801
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