Archive for March 23rd, 2007

Computer registry problems

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

One of the first things you have to do when you decide to modify or update your computer registry on your own is that a backup is mandatory and you must know how to restore the original settings in case something goes wrong. This is probably the most common mistake people do when deciding to “play” with computer registry. And at the end they must pay a specialist to fix the mess they did.

After installing some security updates there are a series of problems that might occur. Especially after installing security update 908531 for Windows explorer the fallowing errors may occur:

 

*Some folders become inaccessible. Here we are talking about folders like my computer or my documents that suddenly cannot be opened.

 

*Some office application stops responding. You know that annoying situation when you finished writing a document and you just cant save it or another not so pleasant situation when you cannot open documents that were saved in the my computer folder.

 

*If you try to open an application by selecting the open option from the file menu it suddenly stops responding.

 

*One of the most irritating errors in my opinion is the one connected to internet explorer.  I am talking about those situations when you type an address in the address box of the Internet explorer and when pressing enter nothing happens. You simply cannot access that file.

 

*Another possible error is when you right-click an item and try to sent it to another location by using the send to option and nothing happen.

 

*Some application, especially the third party ones stop responding when you try to save some data in My Documents folder.

 

Why do all this problems occur? First of all because the security update 908531 is a newly installed program. And this newly installed program validates different extensions before allowing Windows to initialize them. And on some computers this program just stops responding. There are some known causes for this anomaly, causes like:

 

*When the HP Share-to-Web software is running it interferes with the program. In this case you must install a version of the program that is compatible with this application.

 

*there are some HP software that are not compatible with Verclsid.exe and make it stop responding, software like: HP PhotoSmart , different HP DeskJet printer that make use of a card reader, HP scanners and CD-RWs and DVD-RWs and in the end HP cameras.

To be more specific the tool that caused the Verclsid.exe not to respond was the the Share-to-Web namespace daemon.

Other cases in which the Verclsid.exe can stop responding is when it is blocked by the Firewall installed on your computer or when some NVIDIA shell extensions are opened or used.