Re: Explorer / Desktop fails to run for User account login


Good to know I'm not the only twit then... :-)

"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

Gosh I have seen that before but can't remember all the exact reasons.
Anyhow look in the application/system logs to see if anything is recorded
there and make sure that users have needed permissions to the root/drive .......


I'll have a look, but the one thing I didn't change is any file / folder
security permissions, but I will check.
I know this because, when "logged in" as a user account (and they are all
affected on this machine), I can use task manager to browse to and run almost
every program I use on a day to day basis. My text editors, revision control,
word processing, picture editing ---- the lot. These all access files
normally and show no signs of distress (unlike me!). The only ones which give
difficulty are Outlook which displays only the folder tree pane, and internet
explorer / explorer itself which fails to run for more than a couple of
milliseconds.

So I am left with a very "DOS - unix" system, where everything can be run
from the command line except the primary user interface.

That doesn't sound like file permissions being a problem. I am left still
considering that VB6 has truly screwed around with my registry for one time
too many and made a hash of it at some random place, but I have no idea where?

I tried a System Restore to the "yesterday" point, and that did nothing; I
did it again to the oldest entry in the table (some 2 weeks ago) and the
restore said "nothing has changed". So, does that rule out registry? -
perhaps not.

I can certainly browse the whole file / folder tree and am not denied read
of anything, and I can see everything in the registry with regedit similarly.

The "Desktop" can be browsed but "My Computer" and "My Network Places" show
as just "Folder" although I can browse into them and see the network places
shortcuts; other desktop folders are visible in the browse too.

I can navigate to "system32" and run programs from there, such as cmd.exe
and notepad.exe, so nothing radical there either.

Looking in the system event log, the following error entries seem to have
appeared since around the time VB6 was play acting and I was trying to fix it
(for the zillionth time). The link to Microsoft just says there is nothing to
say - not very helpful.

The server {0C0A3666-30C9-11D0-8F20-00805F2CD064} did not register with DCOM
within the required timeout.
The server {8EC217F4-3428-4881-8019-AA8A19C2F07F} did not register with DCOM
within the required timeout.
The server {A1F4E726-8CF1-11D1-BF92-0060081ED811} did not register with DCOM
within the required timeout.
The server {D5B7FCA3-3040-11D1-92BA-444553540000} did not register with DCOM
within the required timeout.

Unable to start a DCOM Server: {8EC217F4-3428-4881-8019-AA8A19C2F07F}. The
error:
"The system cannot find the file specified. "
Happened while starting this command:
.......< some Unicode garbage occurs here > ......


I guess there are two ways to approach this; I could try a "repair" of the
registry to see if that helps. I will also prepare an alternate disc with the
last saved image. That was a year ago, but that is not as bad as it sounds.
Some programs have been added since then, but this machine doesn't change
often and all data is kept on an independent disc and on the server. Working
it up to usable is some effort, but not as much as a full, clean install -
that took 2 months to get right.

I'm over most of the screaming & crying now, so any ideas on how else to
progress?

.

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