subject: Information Technology Forum For Windows Xp [print this page] A technical support that builds upon real time sharing of ideas with your PC friends and computer technology experts can be very effective. You will learn how to keep your Windows XP up to date with Service Pack 3 in an ongoing basis from technical support experts in a popular information technology forum. For example, it may be that you were shutting down your Windows XP laptop the other day, but it was hanging for quite a while at the shutdown phase. No updates were installing. So, you held down the power button to shut it down. Since then, you observe that this strange message had been popping up whenever you tried to open anything - from control panel applets to applications:
[name of program.exe] - Unable To Locate Component.
This application has failed to start because netkoouyak.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. It was always netkoouyak.dll that was not found. You searched the web and could not find anything on it. You ran an updated malwarebytes scan on here. It comes up clean/no infections.
The message is annoying to you. You also observe that most applications will open after you hit OK, but some would not. You boot up and logon to Windows: the message comes up about 50 times. As a result, you have to keep clicking OK. You see no other weird processes running when examining with process explorer.
You ran rkill as well, but still the error keeps coming up no matter what you try to open.
Your tech help experts in an online information technology forum first suggests you to run autoruns. In Autoruns:
Hit options and check "verify code signatures" and rescan (F5 key). You are asked not to make any other changes. Within Autoruns, select the file tab and select save(Ctrl+S). Save as AutoRuns Data (*.arn) -Output file is a few megs in size. Then you were asked to try a command called sfc/scannow from Run. This perhaps would solve your present computer problem with Windows XP.
It may be that you were having a computer problem that requires you reinstall XP. You were using the Windows XP Operating System re installation disk that came with the computer (Dell). You simply restarted the computer, inserted the CD, and launched the install. Your computer problem was that it would not let you select the "Install Windows XP" option. You can look for tech help when faced with such Windows problem in a good information technology forum.
According to technical support experts in a popular information technology forum, Antivirus 2010 XP leads to this issue if a user follows the removal guide and deletes the shell class. This action kills the shortcut functionality as well as the ability of the system to launch applications. In such case, renaming the current user's profile and then copying the data back after the user's log in fixes this issue.
The fact that you can not launch any application as the current administrative user means that you can not launch regedit using which this issue/situation can be corrected.
The repair install of the operating system will not fix this computer issue with the user's profile which is where the fault lies. The two options you have is either a complete install of the operating system or use the SAFE mode using the Built-in Administrator account to correct the issue by renaming the commonly used user profile and then relogin.
The items of interest are hkey_current_user. You can use another computer system to access the management interface of this system to add another administrative user. Using the remote registry approach is more involved and requires that you know the USER SID for access of the HKEY_Users to remotely correct the issue.
Today, a good information technology forum provides you trouble shooting steps in an easy to use manner. After upgrading, you receive tech help that addresses any hurdle, such as upgrading from Windows XP Service Pack 2 to Windows XP Service Pack 3.
