How can I eliminate these Windows XP startup errors?
Each time my pc starts, there are four errors in the event viewer. I would like any advice on how I can get rid of any or all of them. Here they are with my comments... "The Creative Audio Service service failed to start due to the following error:The system cannot find the file specified. "My sound card is a Soundblaster made by Creative Audio, but it works fine. How can I find out what file the system is looking for? "The Powertweak NT helper service failed to start due to the following error:The system cannot find the file specified. "Powertweak has not been installed in a long time. Wondering if I can go into the registry and safely delete any Powertweak keys?"The Cyberlink RichVideo Service(CRVS) service failed to start due to the following error:The system cannot find the path specified. "Apparently left over from a past install of PowerDVD. Once again, wondering if I can safely delete related registry keys?"The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: TfFsMonTfSysMon"More remnants of past software. However, in this case the registry key names for each of these is preceded by the text "legacy_" and the registry will not allow me to delete them. What to do? 1 person needs an answerI do too
December 18th, 2010 4:02pm

Have a look in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for Errors and Warnings and post copies here. Don't post any more than 48 hours ago.You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer. Now start your message paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer.Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell
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December 18th, 2010 8:17pm

My remarks are in [[]] brackets..."The Creative Audio Service service failed to start due to the following error:The system cannot find the file specified. "Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Service Control ManagerEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 7000Date: 12/19/2010Time: 4:26:23 PMUser: N/AComputer: PCDescription:The Creative Audio Service service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.FROM LINK TO /EVENTS:Explanation Service Control Manager (SCM) could not start the specified service, probably because the serviceis not configured correctly.User Action Do one or all of the following:Review the error information displayed in the message.Verify that the service password has not expired. [[n/a]]Verify that the service is in the correct location. [[?]]Verify that the service is not infected with a virus. [[clean]]To display the WIN32_EXIT_CODE error that SCM encountered when trying to start the program,at the command prompt, type sc query service name [[this resulted in "invalid option" because theserver name (don't know what my server name is!) was not between the word query and the servicename (Creative Audio Service)]]The information displayed can help you troubleshoot possible causes for the error.If the WIN32_EXIT_CODE is zero, then SCM did not attempt to start the service because the errorwas detected first. [[don't know how to find the WIN32_EXIT_CODE ]]"The Powertweak NT helper service failed to start due to the following error:The system cannot find the file specified. "[[Solved . This error did not appear at last boot after I disabled it in the Device Manager.]]"The Cyberlink RichVideo Service(CRVS) service failed to start due to the following error:The system cannot find the path specified. "[[Solved . This error did not appear at last boot after I found and removed a bunch ofgrayed-out drivers in the Device Manager.]]"The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: TfFsMonTfSysMon"For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.FROM LINK TO /EVENTS:Explanation The specified drivers did not load correctly. The driver might not be in the expected location.User Action Do all of the following:Verify that the drivers are configured correctly.Verify that the computer is running the most current version of the drivers. [[Neither of the above makes any sense; the drivers are for software no longer installed.]]
December 19th, 2010 8:11pm

My remarks are in [[]] brackets..."The Creative Audio Service service failed to start due to the following error:The system cannot find the file specified. "Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Service Control ManagerEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 7000Date: 12/19/2010Time: 4:26:23 PMUser: N/AComputer: PCDescription:The Creative Audio Service service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.FROM LINK TO /EVENTS:Explanation Service Control Manager (SCM) could not start the specified service, probably because the serviceis not configured correctly.User Action Do one or all of the following:Review the error information displayed in the message.Verify that the service password has not expired. [[n/a]]Verify that the service is in the correct location. [[?]]Verify that the service is not infected with a virus. [[clean]]To display the WIN32_EXIT_CODE error that SCM encountered when trying to start the program,at the command prompt, type sc query service name [[this resulted in "invalid option" because theserver name (don't know what my server name is!) was not between the word query and the servicename (Creative Audio Service)]]The information displayed can help you troubleshoot possible causes for the error.If the WIN32_EXIT_CODE is zero, then SCM did not attempt to start the service because the errorwas detected first. [[don't know how to find the WIN32_EXIT_CODE ]]"The Powertweak NT helper service failed to start due to the following error:The system cannot find the file specified. "[[Solved . This error did not appear at last boot after I disabled it in the Device Manager.]]"The Cyberlink RichVideo Service(CRVS) service failed to start due to the following error:The system cannot find the path specified. "[[Solved . This error did not appear at last boot after I found and removed a bunch ofgrayed-out drivers in the Device Manager.]]"The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: TfFsMonTfSysMon"For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.FROM LINK TO /EVENTS:Explanation The specified drivers did not load correctly. The driver might not be in the expected location.User Action Do all of the following:Verify that the drivers are configured correctly.Verify that the computer is running the most current version of the drivers. [[Neither of the above makes any sense; the drivers are for software no longer installed.]] Start > Run > services.msc > OKScroll through the list of services. If you find "Creative Audio Service" or "Powertweak NT helper" or "Cyberlink RichVideo Service" (or some reasonable facsimile of those names), right-click on the entry, select Properties, and set the "Startup type" to "Disabled" for each one.
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December 19th, 2010 8:41pm

Thank you. This has stopped most the problems. The only ones left are TfFsMon and TfSysMon; efforts to remove them from the registry result in "unable to delete all the specified values." Neither appears in the services list.
December 25th, 2010 12:27am

TfSysMon is related to ThreatFire anti-viral software. Are you using this software or have you used it in the past and attempted to remove it?By the way I am not convinced that the action taken to eliminate the other errors is the best solution. It is possible that you have only eliminated the reporting of an underlying problem and not resolved the problem itself. In future if you find something not working that you need to work you will need to check that the services disabled are not related to the new problemHope this helps, Gerry Cornell
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December 25th, 2010 2:52am

Gerry, you're correct that TfSysMon (and TfFsMon ) are related to ThreatFire. I briefly tried out that software years ago and uninstalled it. What I can't understand is why I can't remove the remnants from the Registry. By the way, the names of these two keys in the Registry are each preceded b the word legacy and an underscore.
December 26th, 2010 2:47pm

"The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:TfFsMonTfSysMon" Now that you have explained how the entries came to be present their removal is relatively simple and painless. Examine the entries in Autoruns and I would expect you to find entries for the two drivers which can be disabled. Against both entries you should see “File not found”. This type of entry is called an orphaned entry. In a day or so, if this action has resulted in causing no new problem you can use Autoruns to delete the entries. This action safely removes the entries from the Registry. To identify what loads when you boot use Autoruns (freeware from Microsoft). http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx With Autoruns you can uncheck an item, which disables it from starting, or you can right click an item and then delete it. If you uncheck you can recheck to re-enable the item. It is a much safer approach than editing the Registry and better than using msconfig.Another useful feature of the programme is that you can right click an item and select Search Online to get information about the item selected. Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell
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December 26th, 2010 3:33pm

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:31:15 +0000, Gerry C J Cornell wrote: ||| ||"The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:|TfFsMon|TfSysMon"|| ||Now that you have explained how the entries came to be present their removal is relatively simple and painless. Examine the entries in Autoruns and I would expect you to find entries for the two drivers which can be disabled. Against both entries you should see ?File not found?. This type of entry is called an orphaned entry.|| ||In a day or so, if this action has resulted in causing no new problem you can use Autoruns to delete the entries. This action safely removes the entries from the Registry.|| ||To identify what loads when you boot use Autoruns (freeware from Microsoft).| http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx| |With Autoruns you can uncheck an item, which disables it from starting, or you can right click an item and then delete it. If you uncheck you can recheck to re-enable the item. It is a much safer approach than editing the Registry and better than using msconfig.|||Another useful feature of the programme is that you can right click an item and select Search Online to get information about the item selected.|| |Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell http://www.threatfire.com/files/removethreatfire(3.0).zip will get the tool to remove the residue of threatfire. It is not under support on thesite, it's listed in the forums. --Eddie in Loveland "A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy." --Joseph Campbell
December 26th, 2010 5:16pm

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