Can't get games.

[Nealf]

When the grand kids wanted to play on line games (checkers and backgammon) I got a message with 0x80041006 as a reason I can't open.  Googliong that only got me a bunch of paid for adds to correct registry.  Is this actually a virus we've got, or is there some kind of real issue?

[Allan]

I don't know what you Googled, but here's what I got: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GB___US394&q=0x80041006&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=f&oq=&gs_rfai=

[Nealf]

Yup.  That's the exact same page I got.  But everyone of those addresses leads to some kind of
'scam' program wanting us to spend plenty to cure 'registry errors' that we didn't know about.

[Allan]

That's not what I see. Clicking on the first couple of links yields these pages:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistagaming/thread/df9b2bc6-3eec-4ce4-a663-74c4392ba94f

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394559%28VS.85%29.aspx

Anyway, stay away from registry cleaners at all costs.

[Nealf]

Got evberything going Ok by simply rebooting windows.  Probably a problem with the hard drive eh?

[Allan]

I wouldn't think the hard drive, but whatever - as long as you're up and running.... Thanks for the update.