ok, did all that. it rebooted and i tried opening aol, same result!
i now also have this error on boot up, appears on the desk top in a warning box
"device driver software was not succesfully installed.
microsoft 6to4 adapter #43 Failed."
and here is the latest result from eventvwr.
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 1/20/2009 12:06:53 PM
Event ID: 7001
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: truckslaptop
Description:
The Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service depends on the Shell Hardware Detection service which failed to start because of the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="
http://schemas.micro.../events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908D1-A6D7-4695-8E1E-26931D2012F4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7001</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-01-20T18:06:53.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>117094</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>truckslaptop</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="param1">Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)</Data>
<Data Name="param2">Shell Hardware Detection</Data>
<Data Name="param3">%%1058</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Date: 1/20/2009 12:05:54 PM
Event ID: 10005
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: truckslaptop
Description:
DCOM got error "1068" attempting to start the service stisvc with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{A1F4E726-8CF1-11D1-BF92-0060081ED811}
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="
http://schemas.micro.../events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM" Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}" EventSourceName="DCOM" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">10005</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-01-20T18:05:54.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>117087</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>truckslaptop</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="param1">1068</Data>
<Data Name="param2">stisvc</Data>
<Data Name="param3">
</Data>
<Data Name="param4">{A1F4E726-8CF1-11D1-BF92-0060081ED811}</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Log Name: System
Source: Server
Date: 1/20/2009 12:06:01 PM
Event ID: 2505
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: truckslaptop
Description:
The server could not bind to the transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{93B77B57-C193-407D-BC3F-25893FD750BD} because another computer on the network has the same name. The server could not start.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="
http://schemas.micro.../events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Server" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">2505</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-01-20T18:06:01.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>117089</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>truckslaptop</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{93B77B57-C193-407D-BC3F-25893FD750BD}</Data>
<Binary>34000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
this is driving me nuts...lol
there are other errors from today aswell, but they are mainly not in red.
thanks again, welcome to my world of windows....hehehe
martin