Service Control Manager not found; Perfdisk waiting time expired.

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

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?

 

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
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.







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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]



"mm" wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> My friend's computer win2000, sp4, gives various one line errors,
> citing a hex address. I wanted to reinstall windows over the current
> windows.
>
> 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:WINNTsystem32perfdisk.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? <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:14:26 -0600, "Dave Patrick"
<DSPatrick@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>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.

 

You're welcome.



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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]



"mm" wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> 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:green--><span style="color:green <!--/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. <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->