Disconnecting .. and other

Hi everybody,
due to a failed installation of a hp printer driver, Vista Home Basic now
has some trouble:
- the printer is not installed
- running 'Activities' I see the icon on the tray area but i have not the
main window
- but first of all, on the power off task, Vista shows the 'Disconnecting'
message, the 'ring' is alive, but it never end. I need to push the power
button for 5 secs.

How can i know which process is hanging?
Is there a log for the power down tasks ?

Thanks
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SteM

"SteM" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi everybody,
> due to a failed installation of a hp printer driver, Vista Home Basic now
> has some trouble:
> - the printer is not installed
> - running 'Activities' I see the icon on the tray area but i have not the
> main window
> - but first of all, on the power off task, Vista shows the 'Disconnecting'
> message, the 'ring' is alive, but it never end. I need to push the power
> button for 5 secs.
>
> How can i know which process is hanging?
> Is there a log for the power down tasks ?
>
> Thanks
> ----
> SteM
>
>


Do you have a recent restore poitnf rom before the printer was intsalled?

Saucy

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> "SteM" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Hi everybody,
> > due to a failed installation of a hp printer driver, Vista Home Basic
now
> > has some trouble:
> > - the printer is not installed
> > - running 'Activities' I see the icon on the tray area but i have not
the
> > main window
> > - but first of all, on the power off task, Vista shows the
'Disconnecting'
> > message, the 'ring' is alive, but it never end. I need to push the power
> > button for 5 secs.
> >
> > How can i know which process is hanging?
> > Is there a log for the power down tasks ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > ----
> > SteM
> >
> >
>
>
> Do you have a recent restore poitnf rom before the printer was intsalled?
>
> Saucy

I guess no, is there a tool to see a restore point?
Are they similar to the XP ones ?

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SteM

"SteM" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Saucy" <> ha scritto nel messaggio
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>> "SteM" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> > Hi everybody,
>> > due to a failed installation of a hp printer driver, Vista Home Basic
> now
>> > has some trouble:
>> > - the printer is not installed
>> > - running 'Activities' I see the icon on the tray area but i have not
> the
>> > main window
>> > - but first of all, on the power off task, Vista shows the
> 'Disconnecting'
>> > message, the 'ring' is alive, but it never end. I need to push the
>> > power
>> > button for 5 secs.
>> >
>> > How can i know which process is hanging?
>> > Is there a log for the power down tasks ?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > ----
>> > SteM
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> Do you have a recent restore poitnf rom before the printer was intsalled?
>>
>> Saucy
>
> I guess no, is there a tool to see a restore point?
> Are they similar to the XP ones ?
>
> ----
> SteM
>
>



Start > All Programs > System Tools > System Restore

As you go through the steps there should be a list of Restore Points. Select
the one most recent but before the mess-up.

Saucy

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> "SteM" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> >
> > "Saucy" <> ha scritto nel messaggio
> > news:eks$...
> >> "SteM" <> wrote in message
> >> news:...
> >> > Hi everybody,
> >> > due to a failed installation of a hp printer driver, Vista Home Basic
> > now
> >> > has some trouble:
> >> > - the printer is not installed
> >> > - running 'Activities' I see the icon on the tray area but i have not
> > the
> >> > main window
> >> > - but first of all, on the power off task, Vista shows the
> > 'Disconnecting'
> >> > message, the 'ring' is alive, but it never end. I need to push the
> >> > power
> >> > button for 5 secs.
> >> >
> >> > How can i know which process is hanging?
> >> > Is there a log for the power down tasks ?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > ----
> >> > SteM
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Do you have a recent restore poitnf rom before the printer was
intsalled?
> >>
> >> Saucy
> >
> > I guess no, is there a tool to see a restore point?
> > Are they similar to the XP ones ?
> >
> > ----
> > SteM
> >
>
>
> Start > All Programs > System Tools > System Restore
>
> As you go through the steps there should be a list of Restore Points.
Select
> the one most recent but before the mess-up.
>
> Saucy
>

ok, thanks .. but it had a problem: it did not work.
Some applets like Network, eventviewer, rstrui.exe, sfc.exe did not work.
So i decided to disable all the services and enable three or four services a
time and reboot, just to detect which of them could generate problems.
Unfortunately it is a very long time consuming technique but right now i
have only a dozen of services disable and the system is working.
My guess is that the problem is around to the Windows event handling: when i
have enabled service called 'Windows events registry' or ' Windows events
Collection' (or similar, sorry the name i see is in my local lang), i have
the problem, when they are disabled, no.
Today i will check the remaining services but i'm confident the problem is
the above.

How can i correct this kind of fail ?
Thanks !
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SteM