Can't Open ACPI ATK0100 kernal Mode Driver

I've Googled, and see that other people have gotten this on Asus notebooks, but I don't actually see a cause or solution.

ATK0100 is the driver that runs some of the special Asus keys on the notebook (wifi/bluetooth). I don't actually use wifi very often, and normally want it off, but that seems to be the only way to actually power the hardware up or down (it seems to be left in a powered down state, which is actually what I prefer, but still).

I've uninstalled the ATK Hotkey program, rebooted, and reinstalled it. No effect, when it's installed, I get that error that it can't load that driver, and my Asus specific keys don't work.

(Microsoft should really make a standard for keys like that, as that's the only Asus-specific software I even have on my laptop, and there should be no reason to have it.)

Any ideas? I don't think I did anything that should affect that driver (it did happen at some point fairly soon (a few hours maybe) after I had launched the current version of autoruns, but I didn't do anything with it that should affect this driver, and I'd think reinstalling the driver should correct any issues with it anyway.

 

Hmm...also discovered one of Asus' utilities installs rpcnet.exe as a service.

It may have a benign explanation, but that's still not great...

Well, at any rate, I can't figure this out.

 

Just been battling with this same problem on a Toshiba Satellite. In the end, I found a Toshiba setup utility that installed this driver. I'd not installed it initially because it called itself a '2k' version, and presumed XP came with this automatically.

If you need to find this utility (and I'm not promising it'll work on other machines) browse Toshiba UK Support for the XP drivers for a Satellite L40 PSL48E, and download the Hotkey Utility, which includes this driver tool.

(I'd have put the URL, but am inherently lazy)