Vista - a world of hurt (vista is dumped on me)

Just installed Vista Ultimate. Cruising right along and then up jumped the
devil. Now I'm having problems with MSI - followed the suggestions on
restoring - re-registering and could not find the dllcache. And therefore
cannot uninstall.

Vista sometimes takes a loooong time to shut down.
Have lost audio. Don't know what else since I've been chasing the above.

Any ideas on how to fix this mess would be great.

Kim

intel dg33fb
intel c2d e6750
esi sound card
WD 500gb HD
philips dvd rw

As far as the slow Shutdown, details in this tutorial.

Shutdown

As far as installing problems, see these two tutorials.

Unable To Install Latest Version of Program on Vista

Repair Vista Options - Preferred Sequence


"Kim" wrote:

In addition to what Uvbogden wrote, I suggest you go to your hardware manufactuer website and download the latest Vista drivers for your hardware. Completing a full Windows Update may also resolve your shutdown problem.

Kim,
As point of information and not as criticism:

Was this a clean install or an upgrade?
Have you turned off UAC?
Have you changed ownership/permissions on the system protected areas?
(i.e. c:\ , c:\programs)
have you moved files from one partition/drive to another?
have you used a registry cleaner?

Systems sometimes fail after some of these actions as their consequences are
not always obvious.

Michael


"Kim" <Kim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks to all for the responses.

Couple of additional items: Roxio is creating a 'interactive services
dialog' box. Cleaned them out of the registry. no re-appearance so far of the
dialog box. Also tried a vista update. Something about that it couldn't be
done and then backed out. Will try again if all of this other stuff fails.

Sounds like dllcache is part of the vista os. And since it could not be
found does this mean that the OS is corrupt?

Michael,

Clean install on a partitioned hd 350 mg for this partition, 150 for XP Pro
UAC is off - should this be on? at all times?
did not change permissions
Usually store data files on E ( a 2d hd) and call them from there
Have not used a registry cleaner.

Thanks for the help.

Kim

Kim,

With UAC turned off some system activities do not function as expected. With
UAC turned on you are given the chance to take or not take some action. With
it turned off the system has to make a choice, this choice may be the wrong
one. From comments that I have read for some activities there is a 'silent
fail'. Everything looks like it happened, no error messages, but nothing
happened. I personally do not find the UAC such a terrible intrusion on my
freedom to do whatever I want to the system that I need to turn it off.
Especially if you are having problems I recommend turning it back on, after
you get system stable again and if it is till so bothersome turn it back
off.

I should have asked also if you were dual booting! Important for people
trying to help. I do not dual boot but have been observing threads of those
that do. One set of problems occurs depending on order of XP/Vista
installation. If XP is installed as dual boot over a installed Vista things
don't seem to go very well. I must leave dual boot configurations to the
experts here.

If you have moved your user files (Documents, Pictures etc with the
properties/location tab ) there appear to be some people having problems
with making sure both boots know about the moves. If you are just using E:
as a storage area that does not apply.

The dllcache was part of XP, it is not part of Vista so you should not find
it the Vista Partition.

Michael
Vista Home premium, all stated facts subject to reality


"Kim" <Kim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks, Michael

Now UAC won't let me turn it on. msg 'Security Center cannot access UAC'.

The bit about dllcache was to reinstall MSI.

I put xp pro on a new partition and Visat Ultimate on the other new
partition. Don't remember the order but should it matter since there on their
own partition?

You mentioned about moving files and making sure that both boots know about
the moves. Aren't the common files only common to the partition and not to
another?

Thanks.

Kim,
I have to defer to dual boot experts, but I thought that if done correctly
that the user running in either XP or Vista could see the same documents
and such.

Perhaps you should concentrate on this single problem, its solution may
impact many things.
I suggest you start a new thread just for your 'cannot turn on UAC'.

Let everyone know that you have a dual boot system, it may impact on the
suggestions you get.

Michael


"Kim" <Kim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Michael,

Thanks for all the info. Just did an update. Well, not just. Seems it took
two weeks. Only thing now to contend with is the long shut down. Or so it
seems.