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Jerry

Thanks for your interest but I did try a restore almost as soon as I the problem showed on most of the dates back to the earliest date available, getting on all occasions “Your computer cannot be restored to:” – I had used the restore facility fairly recently, so the failure was new as well. Since things have been working properly I have set a restore point and been able to use it.

Thanks for getting me to the stage of identifying that the problem was to do with NetBT.

I have made use of
http://www.christowles.com/2011/11/h…indows-xp.html

which went smoothly and I now have an internet connection.

Looked good but when I got into RegEdit at:-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/NetBT

There was no NetBT listed,
there was NetBIOS, NetDDE, NetDDEdsdm, Netlogon, Netman, NetTcpPortSharing but not the item suggested.

Out of interest I checked the registry on the portable, NetBT was listed in there.

I then did some Googling and found
http://www.christowles.com/2011/11/how-to-reinstall-netbt-on-windows-xp.html

Should I attempt follow this? But I hope you have a less complex suggestion!

I have not used the Event Viewer before but after some experimenting I closed it down then using Services attempted to start the DHCP Client, this failed.

I then opened the Event Viewer, which showed an error in the Service Control Manager at the time I attempted to start the DHCP Client. The message was “The DHCP Client service depends on the following nonexistent service:NetBT

Again, thanks for your prompt answer

Antecedents for the DHCP Client are:-
AFD – State: Running – Status: OK – Started: True

TCP/IP Protocol Driver – State: Running – Status: OK – Started: True

TCP/IP Protocol Driver has a sub
IPSEC driver – State: Running – Status: OK – Started: True

It seems only the DHCP Client itself is “Stopped” with a ProcessId of 0

Thanks for your prompt answer.
I did try a restore almost as soon as I the problem showed, I have just tried again, at the earliest date available, getting on all occasions “Your computer cannot be restored to:” – I have used the restore facility fairly recently, so this failure is new as well.

Just downloaded (via my laptop) and installed WSDV and looked at the DHCP Client section. Lots of information! But guessing that the “State” should not be “Stopped”; status is “OK” – Startmode “Auto” – ProcessId “0”

The DHCP Client Dependent is a blank.
The DHCP Client Antecedent has in it AFD and TCP/IP, the latter leads into TCP/IP Protocol Driver, which leads to IPSEC driver – both are running.

When I run WSDV on my portable in the DHCP Client section there is an additional Antecedent of “NetBios over Tcpip. (Is this part of Wifi, which the portable is using, or the fact it is missing from the desktop part of the problem?)

I then checked on the desktop the TCP/IP NetBios Helper. The State was “Stopped” on the desktop but “Running” on the portable.

Hope the above information is useful….

My desktop PC running WindowsXP is also unable to “acquire network address”, this began subsequent to the reboot AVG suggested after an update. AVG had also just white listed C:WindowsSystem32Driversnetbt.sys

I carefully followed the instructions in your post what follows are the ones that gave trouble.

ipconfig/renew
Error message “An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Connection : The RPC server is unavailable”

Then did a:- ping 127.0.0.1 without a problem

Then an ipconfig giving
DNS Suffix : lan
IP Address : 0.0.0.0
Subnet mask : 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway : (a blank – no data)

Checking Services
DHCP Client was set to Automatic BUT HAD NOT STARTED
DNS Client set to Automatic and had started
Network Connections were set to Manual and had started
Security Accounts Manager set to Automatic and started
Wireless Zero Configuration set to Automatic and started

When I attempted to start the DHCP Client I received the error message:- “Error 1075: The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion”

When booted and running from a Ubuntu cd the PC connects to the internet with no trouble, so I think the problem is with Windows rather than the network card or the physical connection.

I use Soluto to keep an eye on boot times and if the router is turned off the PC boots in 40secs but if the router is on it takes 2:38

I would welcome suggestions!

Tony

Thanks for the prompt reply.
Seems like a rethink is needed on my part.

Regards
Tony

Thanks for your help – that was what I was after.

Tony

When the workbook opens in Excel 2007 every broken link has #REF! in the cell, that is before dealing with security alerts to do with running macros and updating links. Even if I choose don’t update the #REF! remains. Unlike when run in Excel 2003 where figures appear in all the cells with broken links.

It seems such a radically different way of dealing with the broken links that I wondered if there was an option in Excel 2007 where I could get it to act as Excel 2003 does.

Joe

Thanks for the link, I have just downloaded the utility and will give it a try.

Now a couple of hours later.
“Autoruns” gives an amazing amount of information.
I was lucky the entries that interested me were right at the top and I disabled the entry that was causing the problem and all is well again.

As usual in Woody’s Lounge the posts are helpful, thanks again to all.

Tony

Thanks for the suggestion.

Failed to get it to work although I tried various combinations of System Restore in combination with “doing things” to both Start Up and 81.tmp itself.

I then moved 81.tmp from the System 32 folder and got the message that “Windows can’t find 81.tmp” but at least that has removed any entries in “Start Up”.

I was unable to delete 81.tmp until I ran a virus scan using AVG. This flagged the file as connected with “Trojan Horse Proxy JZJ” and deleted 81.tmp.

I am now left with the message that Windows can’t find it when the machine boots!

Tony

Thanks to you all for your suggestions.

Plenty of references to get my teeth into.

Regards

Tony

Thanks Hans

Using the Hyperlink function does the job!

As usual I was trying to make things too difficult….

Your help much appreciated.

Regards

Tony

Hans, thanks for your response, sorry I should have been more specific:-

A hyperlink is produced by Excel 2002(XP) in the form.
../spanners/Catalogued/R0010227.jpg
I have .jpg’s associated with IrfanView and when I click the above hyperlink Irfanview opens with the message “No file loaded”

Using “edit hyperlink” I replace the hyperlink with the full path – an absolute link :-
E:maincataloguespannersCataloguedR0010227.jpg
(Note the back slashes – the way I thought files and folders were separated. Also the Excel file is in the folder “maincatalogue”)
I click this hyperlink and R0010227.jpg opens in IrfanView

When the file is saved, as part of the saving process, the working absolute hyperlink is changed back to the relative hyperlink with the slashes in the wrong direction and when clicked Irfanview opens with the message “No file loaded”.

Further experimenting has shown me that hyperlinks to .jpg’s in the same folder as the Excel file cause no problems, neither do hyperlinks to a folder ONE below the folder containing the Excel file. It is only if the folder structure gets more complicated than this do the problems start. However, hyperlinks to .jpg’s on another drive, no matter how far down the folder tree open with no problem.

Does this mean that in Excel 2002(XP) it is not possible to set up a list of hyperlinks to .jpg files that are further away from the Excel file than the next folder?

The problem seems to come about from Excel 2002(XP) producing hyperlinks using the forward slash / to separate files and folders. Do I just accept this limitation or is there a way round it?

Steve – thanks for pointing me to Rudi’s post, very neat!

Tony