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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't run windows repair aio, pc reboots

« on: December 07, 2016, 04:06:06 pm »

So, it seems -as suggested by both of you- that the problem lies entirely on the necessity to upgrade to sp3 due to wps wifi encryption... Its not a malware issue. The laptop connected succesfully on a wireless open network.
I searched all the large files on c: and moved whichever seemed harmless enough to the system to d:
Ran a defrag and after that I am left with 812mb free on the 3.7gb disk.
Tried to run windows update again to install sp3 but couldn't. Downloaded files take about 200mb space but the 600mb rest are not enough for the installation to be completed...

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't run windows repair aio, pc reboots

« on: December 07, 2016, 03:12:53 am »

Sorry it took me so much time to reply, wasn't able to check the laptop any sooner...
I tried freeing as much space as I could uninstalling seldom (and not so seldom) used programs but with no result. Laptop has two ssd drives and the c:/ one where the windows installation is, is only 3.5gb as opposed to 7.5gb on d:/  I hoped that these two drives are different partitions of the same one and ran partition magic hoping to merge them but they are indeed separate ones...
I can't install sp3 as it seems.
Trying to manually configure computer browser under services to restart, didn't help either...

Seems that formatting it and perhaps setting as primary disk the larger one, and reinstalling everything, is the way to go...

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't run windows repair aio, pc reboots

« on: December 01, 2016, 11:08:47 am »

Unfortunately, I cannot install SP3 as there is not much space available at the disk.
Had a look at services, all running except Wired Autoconfig which is not listed and Computer Browser which I try to start and it stops by itself.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't run windows repair aio, pc reboots

« on: December 01, 2016, 10:36:31 am »

tried, but nothing happened...

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't run windows repair aio, pc reboots

« on: December 01, 2016, 09:36:06 am »

It is an old sub-laptop (asus eee pc 900) running 32bit winXP with sp2.
Can connect to internet only through wired lan connection, wireless adapter seems to be functional, recognizes available networks, but is unable to connect displaying the message "Acquiring network address" permanently... Otherwise seems perfectly functional.
The computer looks as having been hit by virus at some point, now checked and is clean, I have removed many unecessary programms and tried to renew ip via ipconfig /release and /renew but to no avail..
I'd appreciate any help regarding it, but it also puzzles me why the aio program won't run. As I can't seem to be able to have a good look at the error message -it goes off too fast- is there a log created somewhere I could locate?

edit: no signs of infection (red cross, yellow sign) and doesn't work either on safe mode with networking..

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Can't run windows repair aio, pc reboots

« on: December 01, 2016, 02:24:54 am »

Hi all, a friend gave me his old winxp laptop to look at it as it seems unable to connect through wifi.
I tried to run windows repair using a usb stick and portable edition first, installing it and running it after, and I get the same reaction.
 Application opens and when I try to run it so that it can check the system, I get for a split second a blank screen with an error message which I am unable to log down, and system reboots.
Any ideas?