Scream At The PC
A Techie's vents, frustrations, solutions and lighter side of lifeError #50840 The MAPI spooler could not be started.
Posted on January 19, 2011Error Description
The MAPI Spooler could not be started. Close and then restart all mail-enabled applications. MAPI 1.0 [000004C7] Close and restart all mail-enabled applications.
Solution:
1. Quit all open programs.
2. Rename the Mapi32.dll file in “C:\Windows\System32″ to Mapi32.old.
3.Locate the Fixmapi.exe file in C:\Windows\System32, and then double-click Fixmapi.exe to run the program.
4. Restart your computer.
Wouldn’t you say that is a Wizard’s way of thinking?
Problem with MS Paint? How to restore to default settings?
Posted on June 29, 2010Q
So, I dunno what happened.. but, the size of the page of the MS Paint became astronomically long that when I open a new document, there is a pop up that says, there is not enough memory or resources to complete operation. close some programs and then try again. But the problem comes if i would open a new file, that’s when that pop up appears. what should i do?
A
You can change it in the registry…
Firstly close all instances of Paint
In windows Vista or Windows 7, click start button, and in the search box type in regedit and hit enter.
In windows XP, you would click start and then run and type in regedit and hit enter.
Once in Registry, navigate to the following:
You can change it in the registry…
Firstly close all instances of Paint
In windows Vista or Windows 7, click start button, and in the search box type in regedit and hit enter.
In windows XP, you would click start and then run and type in regedit and hit enter.
Once in Registry, navigate to the following:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets
Now delete the key on the left column labelled “Paint” this will restore back to default settings.
Restart Paint and all settings will be have been reset to factory defaults.
To answer your question about the pop up…
Make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive and consider asking a technician whether you are able to install extra RAM in your machine.
Windows Defender is turned off by my group policy. Any way to turn it back on again?
Posted on June 15, 2010Change it in the registry…
In Vista or Windows 7, click start button, and in the search box type regedit and hit enter.
In windows XP, click start and then click run and type in regedit and hit enter.
Once in Registry, delete the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\windows defender
If your machine is a part of a domain, then this policy is likely to be changed back according to the schedule determined by your domain administrator, this is usually when the computer is restarted.
Key Witnesses Terrible F1 Accident
Posted on April 23, 2010
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Now Playing Get Rid Of That Pesky Recycler Bin Virus
Posted on April 20, 2010Ok assuming you still want to continue using Windows after being infected by such a nasty virus:
This Step by step can be done even if you don’t have an antivirus:
Stopping Autorun Viruses – this applies to all variants of the virus WORM_AUTORUN.CG
DISABLE AUTORUN. This will stop a lot of viruses from spreading from one drive to the other. You can do this by opening regedit.exe and modifying the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
There should be an entry with the name NoDriveTypeAutorun. Set it to 0×95 to disable autorun on everything but CD drives, or 0xB5 (the letter ‘B’, not the number ’8′) to disable it on all drives.
Ok now to remove the virus:
This virus distributes itself using your USB stick and your local hard drive – it has the uncannily ability of filling up a USB stick with whatever is in your recycle bin and then hides all the files using the windows dll files and resident memory in exlorer.exe. Most Antiviruses will detect this, but they are unable to get rid of the virus totally…
Gather all hard drives and memory sticks suspected as having the virus, connect them up in a machine that has Linux installed or simply boot infected machine with an Ubuntu Live CD – Important, please don’t boot into Windows as you will cause the virus to spread more…
Once booted into Linux, locate the windows hard drives connected, on Ubuntu these are usually displayed on the desktop, others will be located under /mnt/windows or /mnt/media in Dolphin File Manager accessed from the menu at the top of your screen.
Go to the root of each Windows drive, delete the following: autorun.inf, recycler and any bat or cmd files present excepting for autoexec.bat which is a legacy file for windows. Also delete “.recycler” and any folders that say recycler, do the same on any memory sticks or external drives you have connected to the infected machine recently.
The Autorun.inf files and the cmd files are what makes this virus work, when you boot back into windows now the files are removed, you may get a few error messages, to get rid of these messages:
- Open Registry Editor. Click Start>Run, type REGEDIT, then press Enter
- In the left panel, double-click the following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Active Setup>Installed Components - In the left panel, locate and delete the key:
{08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAX5-90401C608512} and any other keys that contain information about Recycler or Autorun
- Close Registry Editor.
If you are still getting the error, go back to registry editor and locate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Run
Delete any files you do not recognise, also browse in Windows Explorer to where they are installed and delete off your hard drive (it would be wise to google and make sure) – most of the files here start up when your machine boots up, a number of them can be located next to your system tray next to the time.
For a detailed and somewhat different approach try Bleeping Computer