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Service Control Manager not found; Perfdisk waiting time expired.

Discussion in 'Microsoft Windows' started by mm, Sep 22, 2009.

  1. mm

    mm Guest

    My friend's computer win2000, sp4, gives various one line errors,
    citing a hex address. I wanted to reinstall windows over the current
    windows. [​IMG]

    Dave wanted me to look at the event manager. It was late and they
    rushed me out, but two showed up repeatedly:

    1) "Service Control Manager not found".

    2) "The timeout waiting for the performance data collection function
    "PerfDisk" in the "C:\WINNT\system32\perfdisk.dll" Library to finish
    has expired."

    In addition, he cannot print or install another printer, apprarently
    because spoolsv.exe is not running and when started, will only run for
    a little bit or until I start to install another printer.

    Anything these might share in common?
     
  2. Dave Patrick

    Dave Patrick Guest

  3. mm

    mm Guest

    On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:14:26 -0600, "Dave Patrick"
    <DSPatrick@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:
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    >These ones may help but this isn't related to the printer issue you mention.
    >spools.exe should log a system event when it dies possibly along with others <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    Yes, I think there was an entry for that the last time I looked, but
    because I didn't have much time this time, I didn't try anything
    regarding the printer.
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    >of value. When you view the logged events in Event Viewer (double-click them
    >in the right-hand pane) in the upper right corner, third button down is a
    >copy to clipboard, then you can paste in the body of a reply message.
    >
    >
    >

    >
    <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    Thanks a lot. I'm looking at them and having my friend look too.
     
  4. Dave Patrick

    Dave Patrick Guest

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