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Trouble with sound, task bar, and internet
« on: April 14, 2007, 02:04:13 AM »
Hi there,
My less than 1 year old PC is playing up in numerous ways. Very frustrating! Can anyone help me?

I am running Windows XP.

1. First of all the sound stopped working, and I received an error message
as follows:

"The system DLL user32.dll was relocated inmemory. The application will not
run properly. The relocation occured because theDLL C:\WINDOWS\syste32HHCTRL.OCX
occupied an address range reserved for Windows system DLLs. The vendor
supplying the DLL contacted for a new DLL."

I was told to download this update:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en, and I did and the
problem seemed to be resolved, but returned 2 days later. I again have no
sound.

2. The task bar sometimes randomly loads or just changes styles into a more
traditional, grey, square style.

3. About half the times I turn the computer on and try to access the
internet, it says 'cannot connect to server' and won't even try, and as soon
as I restart the computer there are no problems.

4. When I am on the internet some applications are running extremely slowly
even though there is more than adequate RAM and hard disc space.

I am confused as to what might be causing all this? We have Norton antivirus
installed no our computer, which is updated regularly and has found nothing
'suspicious' in its scans. I have run Ad Aware to check for spyware as well.

I would appreciate any suggestions or ideas! Thankyou.

honvetops



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    Re: Trouble with sound, task bar, and internet
    « Reply #1 on: April 14, 2007, 05:51:48 AM »
    you have some other  transition pack /theme from a third party vendor installed,
    certain third-party applications may not start, and you receive an
     error message when you start the computer ?
     Uninstall those Packs/Themes and Windows XP is up and
     running again

    delete partitions, hard disk and
    start a fresh install of Windows
    « Last Edit: April 14, 2007, 09:15:40 PM by honvetops »
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    Re: Trouble with sound, task bar, and internet
    « Reply #2 on: April 14, 2007, 08:03:11 AM »
    Here's the Fix for the error message in your first paragraph.

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