July 24th, 2009 adminI’ve seen this one a few times before. You boot the PC and see a blue screen of death with the error : stop: c0000218 – Cannot load the software hive.
Due to a registry file failure, previously this has usually meant a reinstall of the OS, however today I found the following KB article which fixed the problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=307545
Not the quickest or easiest of fixes, however the PC is now back to normal!
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July 23rd, 2009 adminEver had all your desktop icons, and settings suddenly disappear whe logging into Vista. You’ll find if you reboot – the same thing happens when you try and log on.
You may think that you’ve lost all the settings – but just try logging out and then back in again (without rebooting) and hopefully you’ll find everything is back to normal!
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July 22nd, 2009 adminIf you’re getting error code 80072EFD when attempting a Windows update – try this from a DOS window (running as Administrator) :
netsh winhttp show proxy
The result shouyld be “Direct access (no proxy server)”
If it isn’t – run this :
netsh winhttp reset proxy
The proxy can be set by a malware infection to stop you getting windows updates. This corrects the problem.
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