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Side-by-side configuration incorrect for 5 programs

soupdragon90 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:45:03 GMT

Hi there, I am having some major trouble with this right now, I am getting this annyoing error for 5 programs:

Audacity
MSN
AIM
Yahoo Messenger
RegistryBoost ( I had JUST downloaded this to try and fix this error! :mad::cry:)

The first 4 I use a lot, MSN and Yahoo I always use during work to see if any new emails pop up, I use Audacity to edit music, and now with this error, I can't chat or edit music.

I think this may have to do with it:my laptop was trying to update yesterday when it was shutting down, but it was doing nothing. So I shut it off, hoping that I could try again and it had to undo the configurations it had just made, and I think that may have broken those 4 programs. How do I fix this? Being able to know when I get emails, chatting with my friends, and editing music are the things I do the most on this laptop, and not being able to do so worries and frustrates me.

Mouse Lazy

Brenda J. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:28:46 GMT

Sometimes a wireless mouse/keyboard will act as such. If a blue tooth
device, move the receiver to a USB port on the front of the computer. Or,
get a short USB extension cable and have the receiver sitting on your desk
close to the mouse pad.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience & Security

"Brenda J." wrote in message
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> Have Vista Home Premium, Dell computer, Microsoft cordless mouse. I am
> having problems with my mouse being non-responsive at times. This happens
> everywhere from the internet to shut down. The mouse just fails to work
> for several clicks. I had wondered if this could be due to my SLOW
> dial-up service but then what does that have to do with shutting the
> computer down? The cordless mouse is seeing its receiver and batteries are
> fine.
>
> Brenda
>

Re: Windows XP Home Lockup & shutdown problem.

Questor — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:13:56 GMT

No problem. I see your post in the other NG now. It should net some
responses.

Q

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> Thanks Questor I use Vista so had inadvertendly placed question in Vista
> forum.
>
> "Questor" wrote in message
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>> --->

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>>> A friend who has Windows XP Home running on his machine has had
>>> several problems in the past week with lockups and not shutting down.
>>> He has run Chkdsk and no errors were found. He ran his virus checker
>>> ( Avast ) and again no errors were found. He used the Restore program
>>> and successfully restored his computer which resulted in the lockups
>>> while running from occurring again, but his computer will now not
>>> shutdown. He reverts to shutting it down manually, which I explained
>>> can cause more problems.
>>> I told him he should have tried the safe mode option to restart in
>>> the last good configuration first but at that point he had already
>>> used Restore. I have e-mailed him the Microsoft article:
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/308029.
>>> Is there any other things he could try?
>>> I will attempt to try and help him today and any constructive
>>> instruction would be appreciated.

>>
>> There are several good ideas here, but you might want to ask this
>> question in the XP newsgroup also:
>>
>> microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
>>
>> Questor

Re: Unable to delete folder with too long name

R. C. White — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:45:28 GMT

Hi, Sunil.

Even though we don't usually see it, each file/folder with a Long File Name
(LFN) also has a computer-created Short File Name (SFN), also referred to as
an 8.3 filename, since it is limited to 8 characters plus and optional
extension of up to 3 characters. (This goes back in computer history to
MS-DOS and before.)

To see the 8.3 filename of your folder, open a Command Prompt and enter:
Dir /x

That command should present the usual listing of all the files and folders
in that directory, as with the plain Dir command. But the /x switch will
create an additional column, before the LFN, showing the SFN for any file or
folder whose LFN does not also meet the 8.3 requirements. Perhaps there is
a space or other "illegal" character in the filename. The SFN for a LFN
will probably have 6 characters, followed by ~1, or some other digit.

Use the Del or RD command with that SFN to delete your file or remove your
folder. Using RD /s for the top-level folder should remove that whole
directory tree.

(As always in a Command Prompt window, type the name of any command followed
by /? to see all the switches and parameters available with that command,
such as: Dir /? )

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@newsgroup
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

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> Dear Sir,
>
> Eclipse has created folder inside folder recusively. Now I am not able to
> delete this folder using neither 'Windows Explorer' nor using command
> prompt using RMDIR/S.
> It tells names of folder is too long.
>
> Pleasew help me in how to delete it.
>
> Regards,
> Sunil