Laurel wrote:
>On boot up I get the message Windows cannot find: >>


This usually means that windows is trying to start something that no longer 
exists on your computer or has been partly removed or corrupted.

Start/Run and type msconfig. Go to the startup tab and untick everything.

Then reboot and see if the errors have gone.

After that, it's trial and error and some educated guesswork to locate 
which are the culprits.

The unticked items will remain in Msconfig so you can selectively re-tick 
them later if you need to.  most brand-name computers come with far too 
much proprietary rubbish set to run at startup.

Msconfig won't allow you to untick anything vital to the system, so it's 
quite safe to use.

If the errors remain, then you will need to use some more specialised 
software to dig further---there may be drivers or remnants of old hardware 
(printers are notorious for this) which have not been completely deleted 
from the system.

Another common cause for these errors is when you delete programs without 
properly uninstalling them---or the uninstall software for that program is 
poorly written and incomplete.

If the problem is very recent, a System Restore might fix it, although 
that's not the ideal answer in this case.

Don Penlington






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