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09-24-03, 04:15 PM
I have Win98SE and problems w/ this folder (I the german version, so the default path of the "My Documents" folder is C:\Eigene Dateien): It all started when the link to this folder disapperead from the desktop. Since that moment, this folder isnt a special folder anymore. I manually restored the link to the desktop, but I couldnt solve the other problems:
1.) I cannot open the folder directly from the desktop in the Explorer (have to go to C: first).
2.) I cannot see this folder in save as menus at all anymore, except C:\Eigene Dateien is the default save-directory of this app. If this is not the case, I have to typ manually C:\Eigene Dateien to save a file there.
3.) The worst is, that the search funktion doesnt work probably in this folder anymore: I can only find files in subfolders, and it doesnt change anything when I select "dont include subfolders".
I dont know, if this has something to do with it, because it started later: very often Explorer is closed because w/ an error message, but Explorer restarts itself right afterwards. This sometimes, but not everytime, happens when I do one of this things:
- When I start special programs, that need a tray-icon (it doesnt happen w/ all tray-programs)
- When I use Explorer or have a folder opened or do things like save, craete a link,... in a folder that is opened w/ explorer. It most frequently happens in C:\Eigene Dateien.
- surf the internet.
I dont remember the exact error messages, but it alway sayed, that Explorer is closed because of an illegal operation (if I translated that right), and there were differfent modules (files) causing this fault. I remeber USER.EXE and KERNEL32.DLL. There wer also a few other files, but mostly I didnt look exactly, but it seemed, like no file was causing the error extremely more often than the others.
In tweakui the folder "My Documents" is already set to the right location (C:\Eigene Dateien). I already tried to change it to C:\Eigene Dateien again, but this first it doesnt work, becaus then a menu appears, where I can select any folder except Eigene Dateien (see Screenshot):
Later I was able to change the folders location. I tried C:\My documents, C:\MyDocuments and even a DOS-compatible file name (not more than 8 characters, no special charakters).
After that I ran SFC, but it didnt help.
Details about what I did w/ SFC:
I now ran sfc in savemode, but w/o searching for deleted or changed files. It only found one possible damaged file (a part of the path is translated from German):
C:\Program files\Shared Files\Microsoft Shared\Webfolders\RAGENT.DLL
Description from Properties -> Version:
Because this didnt help I searched for files which were replaced by older files or other supicious files in the SFCLOG.TXT file. The good thing about this file is, that it says, if the file has changed since the last scan, even if all properties (size, version, date) are identical. Sometimes when only the date changed, the file didnt change althought the date changed.
I didnt find files, which were replaced by a file w/ an older version, but I found files, were the versionnumber didnt change, but the date changed, and some of them were als reported as changed by SFCLOG. Althought only one was replaced by a file w/ an older date, I renamed all of this files that were reported as changed (except one) to .old and replaced them w/ the original file from the Win98-CD. I dont think, that I did something wrong by this, because the original date of all these files was 05/05/99, which is the date of all Win98SE files. The one file I didnt replace (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CTL3D32.DLL I didnt replace because it said in the properties it said under version: "Ctl3D 3D Windows Controls", so I dont think, that this file has something to do w/ my problem.
The files I replaced:
path\filename|||version of previous file|date of previous file|size of previous file||version of current file|date of current file|size of current file|||description under properties -> version (partly translated form German, partly in German)
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ASYCFILT.DLL|||2.40.4275|05/05/99|144kB||2.40.4275|03/13/03|144kB|||Microsoft OLE 2.40 for Windows NT(TM) and Windows 95(TM) Operating Systems
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSRECR40.DLL|||4.00.25218|05/05/99|28.2kB||4.00.25218|04/12/99|28.2kB|||Microsoft Jet-Aktenkoffer-Syncronisation Resource
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSVCRT.DLL|||4.22.0000|05/05/99|336kB||4.22.0000|03/13/03|319kB|||Microsoft® C Runtime Library
1.) I cannot open the folder directly from the desktop in the Explorer (have to go to C: first).
2.) I cannot see this folder in save as menus at all anymore, except C:\Eigene Dateien is the default save-directory of this app. If this is not the case, I have to typ manually C:\Eigene Dateien to save a file there.
3.) The worst is, that the search funktion doesnt work probably in this folder anymore: I can only find files in subfolders, and it doesnt change anything when I select "dont include subfolders".
I dont know, if this has something to do with it, because it started later: very often Explorer is closed because w/ an error message, but Explorer restarts itself right afterwards. This sometimes, but not everytime, happens when I do one of this things:
- When I start special programs, that need a tray-icon (it doesnt happen w/ all tray-programs)
- When I use Explorer or have a folder opened or do things like save, craete a link,... in a folder that is opened w/ explorer. It most frequently happens in C:\Eigene Dateien.
- surf the internet.
I dont remember the exact error messages, but it alway sayed, that Explorer is closed because of an illegal operation (if I translated that right), and there were differfent modules (files) causing this fault. I remeber USER.EXE and KERNEL32.DLL. There wer also a few other files, but mostly I didnt look exactly, but it seemed, like no file was causing the error extremely more often than the others.
In tweakui the folder "My Documents" is already set to the right location (C:\Eigene Dateien). I already tried to change it to C:\Eigene Dateien again, but this first it doesnt work, becaus then a menu appears, where I can select any folder except Eigene Dateien (see Screenshot):
Later I was able to change the folders location. I tried C:\My documents, C:\MyDocuments and even a DOS-compatible file name (not more than 8 characters, no special charakters).
After that I ran SFC, but it didnt help.
Details about what I did w/ SFC:
I now ran sfc in savemode, but w/o searching for deleted or changed files. It only found one possible damaged file (a part of the path is translated from German):
C:\Program files\Shared Files\Microsoft Shared\Webfolders\RAGENT.DLL
Description from Properties -> Version:
Because this didnt help I searched for files which were replaced by older files or other supicious files in the SFCLOG.TXT file. The good thing about this file is, that it says, if the file has changed since the last scan, even if all properties (size, version, date) are identical. Sometimes when only the date changed, the file didnt change althought the date changed.
I didnt find files, which were replaced by a file w/ an older version, but I found files, were the versionnumber didnt change, but the date changed, and some of them were als reported as changed by SFCLOG. Althought only one was replaced by a file w/ an older date, I renamed all of this files that were reported as changed (except one) to .old and replaced them w/ the original file from the Win98-CD. I dont think, that I did something wrong by this, because the original date of all these files was 05/05/99, which is the date of all Win98SE files. The one file I didnt replace (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CTL3D32.DLL I didnt replace because it said in the properties it said under version: "Ctl3D 3D Windows Controls", so I dont think, that this file has something to do w/ my problem.
The files I replaced:
path\filename|||version of previous file|date of previous file|size of previous file||version of current file|date of current file|size of current file|||description under properties -> version (partly translated form German, partly in German)
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ASYCFILT.DLL|||2.40.4275|05/05/99|144kB||2.40.4275|03/13/03|144kB|||Microsoft OLE 2.40 for Windows NT(TM) and Windows 95(TM) Operating Systems
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSRECR40.DLL|||4.00.25218|05/05/99|28.2kB||4.00.25218|04/12/99|28.2kB|||Microsoft Jet-Aktenkoffer-Syncronisation Resource
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSVCRT.DLL|||4.22.0000|05/05/99|336kB||4.22.0000|03/13/03|319kB|||Microsoft® C Runtime Library