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AskWoody LoungerOk just formatted and reinstalled. Only Flash, Intellipoint and Intellitype installed and I have the same problem ๐ help!
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WSmokely
AskWoody LoungerOk tried it again, same lack of anything happening.
I’m going to try installing another program just in case it’s an MSI issue. I can’t seem to find much from Microsoft that will install – all the other updates and progs I have aren’t applicable. But they at least get to the point of an error message!
Skype installed fine but I don’t know if that is MSI
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AskWoody LoungerI’m using MS Security Essentials
Now it is saying “This operation returned because the timeout period expired”
I DL the installer from itsnotcheating.com.au (Digital River) and have used it without problems both times I’ve reinstalled my PC before.
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AskWoody LoungerI loved this response….
Hello:
Please be more patient about this problem, we have record the issue. It -
WSmokely
AskWoody LoungerYes I tried e-mailing them on the 27th of January. Looks like I’ll have to hang on until next week!
Hello:
Now we are taking the holiday of Chinese New Year, so I cannot reply your letter. Sorry for the inconvenience. I will back on FEB 5st. Please be more patient, I will reply as soon as possible when i’m back.
Best regards
Bluesoleil supportThe dongle worked fine on my Win 2000 Dell PC. So I do think it is a driver issue.
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AskWoody LoungerNow I’ve upgraded to Blue Soleil 1.6.2.1
I did get a bit further and entered the passkey but then got the same error. Now at least the online crash report is saying somethinge more useful:Error caused by a device driver
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AskWoody LoungerYes it came with BlueSoleil (1.6.1.4 is installed)
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AskWoody LoungerHi
just tried the don’t restart option.
The BSOD said: IRQL_not_less_or_equal
Stop 0x0000000A 0x000000B8 0x0000001C 0x00000000 0x804FAC79
Googling didn’t help too much. Just come up with things like dodgy RAM or overheated CPU. But I know it is something to do with this dongle…
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AskWoody LoungerNo none at all! It is quite annoying. Sometimes BlueSoleil actually gets as far as seeing the device in the short period before Windows silently reboots. No blue screen nothing except the computer reboots. When it restarts it says that Windows has recovered from a serious error.
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AskWoody LoungerThanks Joe – no luck with either – my computer was only built a couple of months ago and we’re pretty locked down here at work! There is a BIOS update from this month but a bit wary about installing it.
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AskWoody LoungerApril 13, 2004 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Heading,1 style – for Australian spelling (Word 2003) #813976Hi Phil
I fixed the language problem and this problem seems to have disappeared. I was trying to do a screenshot and have discovered all is well. I’m not sure if it was an autoformat thing or not. Word was creating Heading,1 not using Heading 1 when I clicked on it.
I seemed to remember reading about it somewhere so I thought someone here might have had the same problem, never mind, all is well now!
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AskWoody LoungerWell I have managed to fix the problem.
What happened was that I had accidentally deleted “English (United States) Keyboard US” from the Installed Services List while still having “English (United States) – US” as the Default Input Language. (Though looking at my earlier screenshot that wasn’t the case! Hmmm, something weird is going on!)
This means that the language settings were confusing themselves because the default input language was not one of the installed services.
I fixed the problem by reinstalling “English (United States) Keyboard US” and then changing the Default Input Language to “English (Australia) – US”
Hooray!
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AskWoody LoungerThanks for that – “Turn off advanced text services” is unchecked I tried turning it off & on again – no change.
ctfmon.exe is not listed on msconfig – cthelper.exe is
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AskWoody LoungerThanks for that – “Turn off advanced text services” is unchecked I tried turning it off & on again – no change.
ctfmon.exe is not listed on msconfig – cthelper.exe is
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WSmokely
AskWoody LoungerI am trying to make my language bar appear – but the language bar button is greyed out.
Any suggestions?
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