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Adobe Error 2739 for Vista

donna — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:30:58 +0000

Since Adobe products are some of the most popular graphics programs used by both amateur and professional web designers, Adobe errors can be problematical. Many people bought Vista because of its great multimedia capabilities.

The error can occur with either the CS2 or CS3 suite of software such as:

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Fireworks
Adobe Flash
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe CS3 Web Production Premium

If you have a problem you will get an error message similar to the ones listed below:

“Setup has encountered an error and needs to close. Error Code: 2739.”
“Setup has encountered an error and cannot continue. Contact Adobe”
“Error 2739: Could not access JavaScript runtime for custom action”

How to Fix the Problem

This problem is caused by the jscript.dll not getting properly registered with the operating system. You will have to manually register the dll file in the windows registry. You need to know if you have the 32 bit version of Vista or the 64 bit version. To find out, perform the following steps:

Right click on the My Computer icon on the desktop
Select Properties
Select the General Tab to see which version you have. It will be display next to System Type

How to Repair the 32-bit Version

Perform the following steps to fix the 32-bit version of Vista:

Select Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
Right click on the Command Prompt and select Run As Administrator
Go to C:\Windows\System32> or type or type cd “%systemroot%\system32” at the prompt
Type regsvr32 jscript.dll
When the message “DllRegisterServer in jscript.dll succeeded” appears, click Ok

How to Repair the 64-bit Version

Perform the following steps to fix the 32-bit version of Vista:

Select Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
Right click on the Command Prompt and select Run As Administrator
Go to C:\Windows\System32> or type cd “%systemroot%\SysWow64” at the prompt
Type regsvr32 jscript.dll
When the message “DllRegisterServer in jscript.dll succeeded” appears, click Ok

Summary

This error is easily repaired. However, you should always run a good registry after you have made any changes to the windows registry file.

Tweaks to Speed Up XP

donna — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:35:53 +0000

One of the most frustrating aspects of working on a computer is that sometimes they seem to run so slowly you could take a nap while the machine is processing something. OK… that is a bit of an exaggeration but it does seem like you are waiting forever.

Let’s look at how we can increase the speed of your PC without having to buy and new hardware or software to get better performance. Some of the tweaks will involve editing the registry while others will not. Make sure you backup your windows registry before you make any changes. This is just a precaution in case something goes wrong. It is also a good idea to create a new restore point as well… for safety.

Making Registry Based Changes

Backing up the registry

Perform the following steps:

Select Start ->Run
Type regedit in the dialogue box that opens
Once the registry editor opens, select File -> Export
Double click on the folder where you want to save the backup file
Click Save.
Now that we have made a backup of the registry we can do something about speeding up XP

Speed up the Menus

The default value for the system to respond to you clicking on the start menu is set pretty high. Reducing this value will speed up the response time. Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay

Double click on MenuShowDelay and change the value to 0 or any other value you want. Reboot the system for the changes to take effect. You can experiment with different values to see what works best for you.

Optimize the Prefetch Feature for FasterLoading

Prefetch allows the system to load faster by reading system boot or application launch files into the cache. Using it will reduce the time the operating system takes to load. The files are listed in the c:\windows\prefetch folder. To speed this process up, perform the following tasks:

Go to the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\
Double-click on EnablePrefetcher in the right hand window and enter one of the following values
Enter 0 to disable prefetching
Enter 1 to prefetch application launch files
Enter 2 to prefetch boot files
Enter 3 to prefetch as many files as possible

Disable 8.3 Name Creation on NTFS partitions

Unless you are actually allowing someone using an operating system that needs the 8.3 naming convention, crating them uses more clock cycles to create your directory listings. To disable this normally unnecessary feature, perform the following steps:

Go to the to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\
Double-click on NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation in the right pane
Change the value of this key to 1

Non- Registry Tweaks

The other important thing to do to speed up your PC is to perform routine maintenance such as:

Do regular anti-virus and spy ware scans
De-frag the hard drive
Run a good registry cleaner to keep the registry optimized.

How to Configure the Recycle Bin

donna — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:39:58 +0000

The windows recycle bin is one of its nicer features because it allows you to recover a file or folder that you deleted either accidentally or because you though you would never need it again.

By default windows has only one recycle bin and it is located on the C: drive and allocates 10% of the total drive space for all of your hard drives to be used for the recycle bin. It is also configured to display a dialog box asking you to confirm you deletes.

The easiest and safest way to configure your recycle bin is:

Press the windows key+e to open up windows explorer. The windows key is located between the CTL and the ALT keys on the bottom row of your keyboard.
Navigate to the recycle bin as shown below

Click on Properties. The window shown below will open

You can configure the drives independently if you have more than one, but there usually in no reason to do that. If you want to reserve less space for the recycle bin move the slider to the left and reduce the percentage. Understand that if there is no enough disk space allocated for the recycle bin any newly deleted files will be deleted permanently.
If you do not want to be constantly asked whether or not you really want to delete a file or folder, uncheck the box for Display delete confirmation dialog
You can choose to delete all files permanently by disabling the recyle bin by checking Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted
After making your selections, click OK

Summary

If you disabled the recycle bin, all files will be removed permanently and cannot be recovered. If you need more disk space on your hard drive and feel confident enough to delete files immediately, you can disable the windows recycle bin and free up hard disk space. If you later change your mind you can enable the recycle by using the steps above and unchecking Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted.

XP Start Menu Not Working

donna — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:15:00 +0000

The windows start menu is one of the more convenient features of the windows operating system. The start menu is divided into three parts divide by separation lines as shown below.

The part on the left above the line are program that will always be shown on the menu unless you manually remove them as shown below from the list and are called ‘pinned’ items.

The programs below that line are added as you open new programs. If you want to add one of them permanently, put the cursor on the icon and hold down the left mouse button and drag the icon above the line.

The All Programs selection is located under the last separator. Putting your mouse over the ALL Programs option produces a list of all the programs that are available on the start menu.

Unfortunately, sometimes the start menu stops working.

What Causes the Start Menu To Stop Working?

There can be several causes for this problem, but the most common causes are:

Corrupt or missing operating system files
Damaged registry keys
Virus or spyware infection

How to Fix the Start Menu Not Working Problem

The repair depaends on the cause of the problem.

Corrupt or missing operating system files

Use the following steps to repair the problems:
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del or right click anywhere on the task bar to open the Task Manager.
Select File -> New task(run) as shown

type cmd in the dialogue box and then press Enter.
At the Command Prompt window, type the sfc /scannow and press Enter.
Insert the Windows XP installation disk in the CD/DVD drive if prompted.

The System File Checker will detect and try to fix or replace missing or corrupt operating system files.

Corrupted Registry Key

To fix a corrupted you need to use a good registry cleaner that has the ability to repair corrupted entries. In fact you should clean your registry as part of a regular maintenance program.

Virus or Spyware infection

Run and anti-virus and anti-spyware program to do a complete scan of your computer and eliminate all threats.

Summary

I would perform these repairs in the following order:

Do the anti-virus and spy-ware scan and if that doesn’t fix it
Repair the system files and if that doesn’t fix it
Clean the registry. Even if one of the first two steps eliminates the problem, you should still run a good registry cleaner to optimize your operating system performance.

What is a Physxloader.dll Error?

donna — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:09:36 +0000

The Physxloader is a module of the NVIDIA Ageia PhysX driver used by several model lines if NVIDIA graphics cards. These drivers bring real time video effects to a program, usually a game that allows everything to look more realistic. Windows 7 does not support the Physx drivers. The good thing is that they don’t get this error. The bad thing is that also don’t get the great graphics performance this technology brings to gaming and other video applications.

You may receive the following errors:

Physxloader.dll Not Found
“This application failed to start because physxloader.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
Cannot find physxloader.dll
The file physxloader.dll is missing
Cannot start a required component is missing: physxloader.dll. Please install [Game APPLICATION] again

Sometimes the errors pop up at startup and at others times during the heat of game play.

Fixing the Physxloader.dll Problem

Most problems are caused by the driver files getting corrupted. The easiest way to repair the error is to uninstall the drivers, reboot the machine and then reinstall the drivers.

Perform the following steps:

Click Start -> Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs
Scroll to the NVIDIA PhysX driver software
Select Uninstall
Restart the computer

You should also remove the files from the startup configuration by performing the following steps

Click Start -> Run
Type msconfig and Press Enter
In the System Configuration Utility that opens, locate NVIDIA related software under the Startup tab
Clear the check box next to NVIDIA files
Click OK to restart your system

Conclusion

Since most applications tend to leave various fragments of themself behind even after they are uninstalled, you should now run a good registry cleaner to remove these items. When that has been completed, you can reinstall the latest versions of the drivers and start enjoying your games again.

.NET Runtime Error

donna — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:32:50 +0000

The .NET framework is a software architecture that is used by Microsoft to allow programmers to build applications and other services that can run on the Microsoft .NET technology suite. Since its initial release there have been several versions of .NET released. The suite has three major parts:

ASP.net
Common Runtime Language
Framework Class Library

What is a .NET Runtime Error?

These errors can be caused by several different problems. In all cases there are caused by problems in the windows registry. Some of the more common causes are:

Bad or incomplete program installation
Bad or incomplete program uninstall and deletion
Viruses and malware
Application conflicts

No matter the cause, you usually have to reboot the computer to make it go away. The problem lies in the fact that it will reoccur unless you actually fix the problem. You will usually get an error message like the one below.

How to fix a .NET Runtime Error

Since each of the most common cause of the .NET runtime errors cause changes in the registry.

For example:

A Bad or incomplete program installation – all installations will add or delete new registry keys. Most people do not do an uninstall when the installation did not work in the first place. The problem is that the new stuff written to the windows registry is still there even though no application is using it.

Bad or incomplete program uninstall and deletion – the same thing is true in this situation. Even though you have uninstalled the program and deleted any files that belong to it, most uninstall programs leave registry entries behind that will eventually cause problems and sometimes even program conflicts.

Viruses and malware – these malicious programs are designed to cause problem in your registry and exist only to destroy or incapacitate your computer.

Application conflicts – some conflicts are caused by the applications just being incompatible with each other which means that one of the software programmers did not follow Microsoft’s guidelines for how to write programs for windows.

The best way to fix this kind of error is to do a complete cleaning of the windows registry. You can do that manually but unless you are an expert on the windows registry, I don’t recommend doing it that way.

The best solution is to use a good registry to repair your windows registry. There are both free and commercial registry cleaner programs available. The paid ones are usually more reliable, easier to use and have more features. Most of the companies will let you do a free scan to see if your registry needs cleaning.

Cleaning your windows registry is like changing the oil in your car. It is routine maintenance that should be done periodically.

Is Your Computer a Zombie?

donna — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:00:37 +0000

Most people are not aware that their computer can easily become one of the hordes of zombie computers that the bad guys use to cause problems for other people.

What in the World is a Zombie Computer?

Any computer can become a zombie. A zombie computer is also called a ‘bot’. Bots (short for robots) are computers that allow an unauthorized person to take control over someone else’s computer. When activated by their master, these machines participate in some very malicious actions sometimes as part of an army of hundreds or even thousands of controlled computers. When this happens it is called a botnet.

These hordes can run DoS (denial of Service) attacks against web sites or entire networks, host phishing attacks and send out hundreds of thousands of spam messages. If you trace the source of the attacks, you will only find a zombie whose owner is totally unaware that their computer is being used to attack others.

How can you tell if your PC is a Zombie?

Your PC can become a zombie as the result of a hacker, a malicious website, infected email, download file or even a flash drive planting the zombie program on your machine.

These programs are very good at hiding themselves. Many times they have file names that are identical to or very similar to legitimate programs so most users would not think anything was wrong even if they saw them listed as running in the task manager. The only to identify the impostor is by looking at where the file is stored. Svchost.exe is one file name commonly used by malware because every time your operating system opens a new process or application it will create a new instance of the svchost.exe file.

Facebook and twitter have been plagued by URLs that are hiding an infection planted through friend messages on Facebook or an innocuous tweet like “Is this You in this Video”. Once you click on the link your computer becomes a zombie. To make matters worse many bots will send a message to everyone in your address book, friends list or all your followers on twitter trying to get them to click on the same link so they can also be infected.

Unless one of your friends asks you why you sent them the link or video, you will never know your computer is infected.

How Can You Protect Your Computer from Zombies?

You can prevent your computer from becoming a zombie by performing routine maintenance on a regular schedule. If you use Facebook, Twitter, download a lot of files you need to use a good anti-malware and anti-virus program. Turn on the active elements such as scanning emails and downloads in real time. Since there is always some lag in virus and malware definitions, set you automatic download for new definitions for daily downloads so your definitions are as up to date as possible.

Schedule a full scan of your computer for once a week. Then after you perform the scan, defrag your hard drive and run a good registry cleaner to eliminate any problems these programs can cause in the registry.

If you maintain your computer properly, you should never have a zombie living in your house.

Why is it Necessary to Clean the Windows Registry?

donna — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:19:59 +0000

As I discussed in my last post, all of the hardware, software and operating system configuration used by your computer are stored in the windows registry. All of the individual user preferences, profiles, accounts, etc. are also stored in the registry. That is why an problems with the registry can cause problems from an application not working quite right to the entire operating system crashing.

How Do You Know if Something is wrong with the Windows Registry?

Common symptoms of registry problems are:

Slow performance

Hardware not working correctly or not at all

Computer freezes

You keep getting windows or application error messages

System crashes (the famous blue screen of death)

Takes “forever” to boot up

Applications not opening or crashing periodically

System won’t boot

The windows registry is a hierarchical database and like all databases, it requires routine maintenance such as compacting, correcting file association, removing corrupted entries, removing tombstones and orphans. Let’s look at each of these items individually.

Compacting – process of reclaiming hard disk space used by the database. Basically it is the process of defragging the database to improve efficiency.

Correcting file associations – anytime you install or uninstall something, changes are made to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry hive. Over time there can be a lot of unnecessary or incorrect information stored in this key. Cleaning makes sure that file associations exist only for files that can actually be opened on the machine exist

Corrupted entries – they are just taking up space and are useless and could cause problems if a process tried to use them so they need to be removed

Tombstones – this is data that was written during a specific operation and then marked for deletion during the next compacting or cleaning.

Orphans – are entries that no longer belong to any application or piece of hardware because it no longer exists or in no longer installed on the system

How Do You Clean the Windows Registry?

You could manually edit the registry and remove all of the unnecessary and corrupted data. But unless you are an expert on all of the possible entries in the windows registry, I don’t recommend that you try doing this because if you make a mistake, your operating system may never boot again.

The best way is to use a windows registry cleaner. Registry are software programs written by people who are experts on every possible entry in the registry. These programs will perform all of the necessary maintenance we described above as well as specifically look for damage done by viruses, Trojans and other forms of malware. They will try to repair and/or recover corrupted data if possible. They do this by analyzing your registry entries and comparing then to a set of ‘normalized’ entries. Normalized means that the data is consistent and properly formatted and is a technical term used in databases.

Registry cleaners are a much safer way of doing the routine maintenance on your windows registry.

Where Do You Get Registry Cleaners?

There are two kinds of registry cleaners, commercial and free ones. Here are some of the differences:

Feature	FREE	Commercial
Quarantine or delete suspected entries	Delete	Quarantine
Provide technical support	NO	YES
Offer a FREE scan	NO	YES
Money Back Guarantee	NO	YES

Recommendation

Commercial registry cleaners usually do a better job and are safer to use. At least one free registry cleaner is good, but, unless you know a lot about the working registry, use a commercial program.

What Is the Windows Registry?

donna — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:53:04 +0000

Everything in your computer needs configuration information to work properly. That includes both hardware and software. Originally all operating systems used flat text files to hold the configuration information. These were called initialization files (.ini) in windows and configuration (.cfg) files in Linux.

You will still an occasional .ini file in windows if an application needs some special configuration that is not available in one of the standard dynamic link libraries (.dll files) used by different applications for common functions.

All of the configurations information or a pointer to where that information is stored contained in the windows registry. Since all of the configuration information is access through the registry, it is pretty obvious why any errors or corruption in the registry can cause serious problems.

To view each hive while we discuss it below select Start->run->and type regedit. The registry editor will open a window like the one pictured below and you can view the structure and look around a little.

Registry Structure

The windows registry is a hierarchical database consisting of five root HIVES. I heard they were called hives because one of the original engineers working on it was afraid of bees. I have no idea whether or not that is true. But it is an interesting story. The five root hivers are:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT – stores all the information that the operating systems needs to open up the correct application when you double click on a file. That means that it contains the file association information. For example if you double click on a .htm or .html file, the operating system will open up a web browser by default because that is the default application for those two extensions even though other applications also use them.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER – stores all the information that is associated with a user or users who are currently logged into the system. This information will also be used a part of a user’s roaming profile as well.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE – stores all of the hardware and software configuration information for the computer and all the peripherals attached to it. There are four sub keys in this hive:

HARDWARE – stores all the hardware configuration information
SAM – stores the local user account authentication database and access permissions for resources
SECURITY – stores group policy and other policy information
SOFTWARE – stores the configuration for every application installed on the local computer and the operating system itself
SYSTEM – contains all of the control sets, last known good configuration, restore points, WPA, WEP, etc settings and a list of the devices mounted on the operating systems such as hard drives, cd-roms, etc.

HKEY_USERS – contains the configuration information for every user who has an account on the machine or has ever logged onto the machine. The information from this hive is loaded into the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive when a user logs onto the machine.

HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG – stores the machines current runtime configuration which is regenerated at each boot up and is linked to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles\Current

Registry Data Formats

Registry data uses special formats which seems to be based on the data formats used in SQL databases

Value Name	Data Type
REG_BINARY	Binary data in any form
REG_DWORD	A 32-bit number
REG_DWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN	A 32-bit number in little-endian format which allows windows to run on little-endian architectures
REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN	A 32-bit number in big-endian format which is supported by some UNIX systems
REG_EXPAND_SZ	A null-terminated string that contains unexpanded references to environment variables (e.g., “%PATH%”)
REG_LINK	A null-terminated Unicode string that contains the target path of a symbolic link
REG_MULTI_SZ	A sequence of null-terminated strings, terminated by an empty string ()
REG_NONE	No defined value type
REG_QWORD	A 64-bit number
REG_QWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN	A 64-bit number in little-endian format
REG_SZ	A single null-terminated string

Conclusion

Like all databases, the windows registry needs periodic maintenance. The best to do this is to use a good registry cleaner periodically. How often depends on whether you upload and download a lot of file or install and uninstall a lot of applications. Once a month is reasonable for most people.

Where is my Classic Start Menu?

donna — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:25:00 +0000

For some unknown reason, Microsoft decided that Windows 7 didn’t need to include the ability to revert to the windows XP stat menu with the fly out menus shown above. I don’t know about you, but, personally, I hate scrolling through the extremely long list on my PC. I want my classic menu back. Vista let me revert to the “classic” start menu but Windows 7 doesn’t.

Hey, Microsoft, what going on? I thought Windows 7 was supposed to let us work the way we want to work?

I am sure I am not the only one who is unhappy with the scrolling. Fortunately, we can revert to our preferred start menu using a registry tweak.

Use the following steps to modify Windows 7 so that it becomes an XP style program menu:

Back up your registry

Select Start type regedit and press Enter

Find the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

Double click on Favorites in the left pane

Replace the value there with C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Next, find the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

Replace the value with C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Exit the registry editor

Right click Start

Select Properties

In the Start Menu tab, click the Customize button

Scroll to the Favorites menu entry

Click its checkbox

Then click OK twice

Reboot your PC

Now, when you mouse over the start menu you should see the familiar menu we both know and love

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Adobe Error 2739 for Vista

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How to Repair the 64-bit Version

Summary

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Optimize the Prefetch Feature for FasterLoading

Disable 8.3 Name Creation on NTFS partitions

Non- Registry Tweaks

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