> ><<<Dave Gibson wrote>>>I get the message "Error, An I/O
> Subsystem driver
> >failed to load. Either a file in the i/o subsystem
> >directory is corrupt of the system is low on memory."
>
> First, you have posted this message to a mailing list devoted
> to PC application
> software.   This is clearly a hardware issue and should have
> been posted to
> PCBUILD where you would find more people able to assist you.

I disagree with Bob. I have seen this appear on a system with no hardware
changes. It happened to me, and later to a colleague, in both cases after
having installed (and probably uninstalled) many programs.

I do think hardware *could* be the problem. I think we're seeing something
very low-level in windows that could be affected by a number of different
causes.

In my case the error was very serious as it prevented me getting into
windows. In the end the fix was I booted to command-prompt and restored an
earlier saved registry (you do save your registry frequently don't you).
That was enough. I cleaned the registry (with microsoft's regclean, I
think).

Joe

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