Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (
More info?)
Tim,
Get a newer version of EasyCleaner.
EasyCleaner hasn't caused this problem for a couple of years. Five versions
ago.
EasyCleaner is at version 2.0.6.380.
The problem was fixed in Version 2.0.5.
[[Version 2.0.5: The sixth public release!
Fixes:
The infamous bug in Windows XP/ME that made help & support unusable after
registry clean ]]
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
Doug Knox wrote fixwinxphelp.vbs to repair the damage done by Toni Arts
EasyCleaner. fixwinxphelp.vbs was modified 2-28-02.
EasyCleaner 2.0.6.380 Blacklist #7
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:%23fepqqAiFHA.1948@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
Tim.T <timatee@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> hunted and pecked:
> Thanks, it seems the DAT file was there after all though. Replacing it
> didn't work; what worked was running a "FixHelpXP" tool that replaced 4
> deleted registry entries that EasyCleaner removes. My fault, of course.
> If I could figure out which registry entries it removes I could perhaps
> tell it to ignore them...
>
> Cheers
> Tim
> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@XOX.mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:#XJXJpphFHA.4000@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Additionally:
>>
>> This method rebuilds the Help Center / MSINFO32, and regenerates the
>> Index.dat:
>>
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/Helpfix.txt
>>
>> --
>> Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
>>
http://windowsxp.mvps.org
>>
>>
>> "Tim.T" <timatee@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23o0qmeihFHA.272@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>> I while ago someone sent me a DAT file on this newsgroup that helped
>>> restore
>>> the msinfo32.exe file. I can't remember what the file was, though. Could
>>> anyone send it me again? Whatever happened to disable msinfo32.exe seems
>>> to
>>> have happened again, not sure what, but I think it's ZoneAlarm Pro
>>> cleaning
>>> out the locked DAT files. Duh
>>>
>>> Tim.T
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