Hello everyone. I hope I'm posting this in the right area.
ASUS P5Q
C2D E7200
Radeon 3870 HD
4 GB RAM
Operating system? Why, 64 bit XP, of course. I've been running it since August. It's been amazing. I've been able to install and and use everything from games to apps.
That is until now.
The other day I decided to reinstall my computer. It's something I usually do after the first couple of months out of habit. Everything went fine. I even got my wireless adapter up and running a whole lot quicker than last time (but that's a different story). My computer just isn't the same though... and I have no idea what's going on. Okay, I got my drivers installed and blazed a trail through Windows Update, but I bought a computer to, you know, do stuff.
Windows Activation could not connect to the internet, so I had to activate over the telephone.
Windows Defender cannot update itself. I had to manually download the update. This isn't such a problem at first glance, but they tend to update definitions frequently.
I cannot change icons or link paths on internet shortcuts. On regular shortcuts, I cannot "find target" or change icon.
I cannot install any programs outside of NOD32 and Adobe Reader. I keep getting these wierd "1628: Failed to complete installation" errors. This is probably the biggest of my problems, as it renders my computer practically useless.
If I try an open User Accounts I get an "Internet Explorer Script Error" saying the error is "Access is denied" and listing "res://C:\WINDOWS\system32\nusrmgr.cpl/nusrmgr.hta" as the URL. It then asks me if I want to continue running scripts on this page, to which I click yes, and the UA pops up, but... unformatted. It seems to work though.
These errors happen both on my administrator account and my main computer administrator account.
Any idea what's going on? Everything worked perfectly the other day. Now I'm on my third reinstall. I cannot think of any logical reason for this. I've even run CopyWipe multiple times.
Help?
ASUS P5Q
C2D E7200
Radeon 3870 HD
4 GB RAM
Operating system? Why, 64 bit XP, of course. I've been running it since August. It's been amazing. I've been able to install and and use everything from games to apps.
That is until now.
The other day I decided to reinstall my computer. It's something I usually do after the first couple of months out of habit. Everything went fine. I even got my wireless adapter up and running a whole lot quicker than last time (but that's a different story). My computer just isn't the same though... and I have no idea what's going on. Okay, I got my drivers installed and blazed a trail through Windows Update, but I bought a computer to, you know, do stuff.
Windows Activation could not connect to the internet, so I had to activate over the telephone.
Windows Defender cannot update itself. I had to manually download the update. This isn't such a problem at first glance, but they tend to update definitions frequently.
I cannot change icons or link paths on internet shortcuts. On regular shortcuts, I cannot "find target" or change icon.
I cannot install any programs outside of NOD32 and Adobe Reader. I keep getting these wierd "1628: Failed to complete installation" errors. This is probably the biggest of my problems, as it renders my computer practically useless.
If I try an open User Accounts I get an "Internet Explorer Script Error" saying the error is "Access is denied" and listing "res://C:\WINDOWS\system32\nusrmgr.cpl/nusrmgr.hta" as the URL. It then asks me if I want to continue running scripts on this page, to which I click yes, and the UA pops up, but... unformatted. It seems to work though.
These errors happen both on my administrator account and my main computer administrator account.
Any idea what's going on? Everything worked perfectly the other day. Now I'm on my third reinstall. I cannot think of any logical reason for this. I've even run CopyWipe multiple times.
Help?
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