[andrewsexton]

Hi,

When I boot up in to XP Home I keep on getting a Datalayer.exe error. I have uninstalled Nokia PC Suite. Any ideas?

Thanks

Andrew

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Hi Andrew

If it isn't being called from the Startup folder at Start>All Programs>Startup, probably the file is still being called from the Registry.

Open the Registry Editor (Start>Run. type REGEDIT, click OK.).
Go to 'Edit>Find'. Type DATALAYER.EXE and click 'Find Next'
Delete all entries it finds (press F3 to continue search after each one is found, until you see "Finished searching Registry".

Reboot.

If you'd rather not mess with the Registry manually, you can download and install a free utility called 'RegSupreme' which will root out all the redundant entries and any 'Run' entries for files which no longer exist (your particular problem, I think). It's free to try and only costs $13 to keep. I use it and it's never broken Windows.
It won't find absolutely everything in one go, but it's a safer bet to start with. Get RegSupreme here: http://www.macecraft.com/regsupreme/

Edited by pip22, 03 November 2006 - 02:07 PM.

[pip22]

Hi Andrew

If it isn't being called from the Startup folder at Start>All Programs>Startup, probably the file is still being called from the Registry.

Open the Registry Editor (Start>Run. type REGEDIT, click OK.).
Go to 'Edit>Find'. Type DATALAYER.EXE and click 'Find Next'
Delete all entries it finds (press F3 to continue search after each one is found, until you see "Finished searching Registry".

Reboot.

If you'd rather not mess with the Registry manually, you can download and install a free utility called 'RegSupreme' which will root out all the redundant entries and any 'Run' entries for files which no longer exist (your particular problem, I think). It's free to try and only costs $13 to keep. I use it and it's never broken Windows.
It won't find absolutely everything in one go, but it's a safer bet to start with. Get RegSupreme here: http://www.macecraft.com/regsupreme/

Edited by pip22, 03 November 2006 - 02:07 PM.

[b1caez01]

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