I really like your style. I have to do the same to mine, but it wasn't VNC that's making me do it, it' NT RAS and the stupid BSODs. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Bostedor) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Registry Error Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:17:48 -0500 Ya know, that's a good point. I would check but I already wiped the drive and started from scratch. The computer was all crapped out from being a testbed computer, anyways, it needed a good cleaning. Thinking about it, though, for some ungodly reason, it could have had the permissions screwed up on it, although I was logged in with administrator privileges. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James ''Wez'' Weatherall Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Registry Error Have you checked the permissions on the key, with regedt32? James "Wez" Weatherall -- "The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlightenment" Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513 AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK - Tel : 343000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bostedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:31 PM Subject: Registry Error > Ok, this one has got me stumped. I had VNC 3.3.3 installed. I uninstalled > it, then installed the Tridia flavor latest version. I didn't like the > infinate auto-retry feature of the client, so I uninstalled, then > reinstalled VNC 3.3.3 and rebooted in between all of these steps. Now, I > try to install the VNC service and it tells me that it can't because some > process is locking the registry keys needed. I stopped all services and > killed all processes that I could, then tried again and got the same error. > I opened regedit and found the keys in question to be: > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_WINVNC] > "NextInstance"=dword:00000001 > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_WINVNC\0000] > "Service"="winvnc" > "Legacy"=dword:00000001 > "ConfigFlags"=dword:00000000 > "Class"="LegacyDriver" > "ClassGUID"="{8ECC055D-047F-11D1-A537-0000F8753ED1}" > "DeviceDesc"="VNC Server" > > If I try to even read the contents of these keys, it says there is an > error reading the key. If I try to delete it, it says there was an error > deleting the key. I rebooted to safe mode and tried there and got the same > thing. How the #@$$ do I remove this key? Right now, I am sitting with no > installation of VNC on this computer and all traces of it removed except for > this key. Any ideas? > > BTW, this is a Windows 2000 Pro box with SP1. > > Steve Bostedor > http://tgcs.web-it.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
