The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Asking a Favor

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by canes0629, Apr 11, 2008.

  1. canes0629

    canes0629 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    5
    Messages:
    35
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Can someone look under their registry a tell me what it should be for two values. here the steps to get to it :

    Type regedit, and then press ENTER.
    Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
    On the File menu, click Load Hive.
    Locate C:\windows\system32\config\components (Pick the first one)
    Find AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving and PendingXmlIdentifier inside and tell me the type (Binary, qword, etc) and the data.
    Highlight components and unload hive.

    I would really apreciate if someone could do this for me. Please don't change anything or do this if you don't know what your doing.
     
    canes0629, Apr 11, 2008
    #1
  2. tacomenace21

    tacomenace21 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    75
    Messages:
    1,124
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    which version of windows?
     
    tacomenace21, Apr 11, 2008
    #2
  3. red616

    red616 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    84
    Messages:
    216
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Well I gave it a go (vista32 home premium) & got as far as "components" but then got error msg "file in use cannot" bla bla bla

    Sorry
     
    red616, Apr 11, 2008
    #3
  4. canes0629

    canes0629 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    5
    Messages:
    35
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Thanks anyways for trying. I had to delete this to be able to boot. There way a microsoft guide to do it but nothing to set it back. i hope it doesn't cause any problems. I would think it would disable updates but i just installed new updates.
     
    canes0629, Apr 12, 2008
    #4
  5. canes0629

    canes0629 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    5
    Messages:
    35
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    wow i thought i put vista, that is wierd. thanks it is vista home 32bit
     
    canes0629, Apr 12, 2008
    #5
  6. red616

    red616 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    84
    Messages:
    216
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Maybe in the future , if you want to turn some sys function(s) on/off , you can use the "services" option ? It's alot easier to manipulate them than messing with the registry. Also the registry has the "export" option where one can do a b/u of the registry in case it gets fouled up.

    A b/u saved my butt once & I never forgot that option. :)
     
    red616, Apr 12, 2008
    #6
  7. canes0629

    canes0629 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    5
    Messages:
    35
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Should have done the export but at that point i thought my computer was really died. There was some advice from microsoft on how to back it up but what i scan though didn't work without booting up first. Also i knew i had backed up the registry only like a month ago but that does not seem to work for those two entries.
     
    canes0629, Apr 12, 2008
    #7
  8. red616

    red616 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    84
    Messages:
    216
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Well I hope you get your p/c back up & running again soon.

    Live & learn...that's how I picked up re running a computer. May have to learn the hard way but boy you never forget the mistakes & the success's are that much sweeter when you figure them out.

    But then they didn't have great forums like NBR when I learned how. The only way you got an answer to a question was doing it & hope for the best. :)
     
    red616, Apr 12, 2008
    #8