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krolls2000
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EUREKA!
Having suffered for a week with this thing, I finally got a fix. Now it may be a bit like selling your soul to the devil (Microsoft) BUT, I just went here:
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.asp
and chose the administrator download (134MB) of SP-1...ran it, rebooted and VIOLA! I'm back to normal (my PC, not me.)
HISTORY (doomed to repeat it, and all that...Going back some time ago, I believe I downloaded a bunch of updates, but don't think I ever did the "whole magilla" (SP-1)...
It seems as if I recall uninstalling "LightFrame", a hokey utility that came with my new Phillips monitor, and my troubles began soon afterward. Just for posterity, let me record that I could not start Norton Antivirus to check for a dreaded bug, nor "WinDoctor" which I love and use religiously. I don't use all of their (resource-hogging) products but those two are essential for me at least. There were many other things (can't recall what exactly) that wouldn't work plus the dial-up and DSL wouldn't function. I got a reference to "ATL.DLL" can't be found, start or something (sorry, my memory is piss-poor) and there was almost nothing to be found on the internet search. I ran "SFC" and restored all the original "DLLs" and other than that I had nowhere to go.
Then I reinstalled XP (not clean because I didn't want to start all over again if I didn't have to) and ended up with ***ONLY*** the "cannot start RASMAN" issue. So I'm back to normal and I hope you all can be as fortunate.
God bless and thanks for your help with this. Feel free to e-mail me as needed.
Having suffered for a week with this thing, I finally got a fix. Now it may be a bit like selling your soul to the devil (Microsoft) BUT, I just went here:
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.asp
and chose the administrator download (134MB) of SP-1...ran it, rebooted and VIOLA! I'm back to normal (my PC, not me.)
HISTORY (doomed to repeat it, and all that...Going back some time ago, I believe I downloaded a bunch of updates, but don't think I ever did the "whole magilla" (SP-1)...
It seems as if I recall uninstalling "LightFrame", a hokey utility that came with my new Phillips monitor, and my troubles began soon afterward. Just for posterity, let me record that I could not start Norton Antivirus to check for a dreaded bug, nor "WinDoctor" which I love and use religiously. I don't use all of their (resource-hogging) products but those two are essential for me at least. There were many other things (can't recall what exactly) that wouldn't work plus the dial-up and DSL wouldn't function. I got a reference to "ATL.DLL" can't be found, start or something (sorry, my memory is piss-poor) and there was almost nothing to be found on the internet search. I ran "SFC" and restored all the original "DLLs" and other than that I had nowhere to go.
Then I reinstalled XP (not clean because I didn't want to start all over again if I didn't have to) and ended up with ***ONLY*** the "cannot start RASMAN" issue. So I'm back to normal and I hope you all can be as fortunate.
God bless and thanks for your help with this. Feel free to e-mail me as needed.