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In Reply to: RE: cMP - the open source high-end Memory Player posted by cics on December 30, 2007 at 05:42:01
Well, I guess it's better than being stuck in "XP mode"...
No matter how many times I click: "start XP" > OK > OK > X > "Yes" (to the "cMP restart?" prompt), the computer does a cMP refresh and returns to the main cMP screen.
Repeated clicking of the "X" does not break out of this loop. Setting diagnostics to "Yes" does not help (just more OK buttons to click through !).
Manually killing cicsMemoryPlayer.exe and starting explorer.exe restores the desktop, but again using the Shutdown/ Restart dialog has no effect... the desktop remains.
Reset button reboots the machine, which goes directly into cMP.
Does anybody know the secret of returning to XP mode ? Please point out the obvious thing I've missed.
I should mention this OS is XP Pro-SP1 (don't ask...), with all the prescribed optimizations (including minlogon). Earthwatts EA-430/ GA-G31M-S2L/ E7400/ 512 mb Hyper-X LL/ Juli@+BNC mod.
Cheers,
Grant
That's not a Toy... IT'S A TOOL !!
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It wasn't mentioned and it was the first thing that occurred to me.
I have not had this happen, but the future is full of possibilities.
Hope all is well for you.
Bye,
Rick McInnis
...and have also used it for Process Explorer in the past.
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OK just relaunched cMP with Process Explorer checked. Then FILE > SHUTDOWN > "Do you really..."/YES... and nothing happens.
I can't help feel that getting back into XP mode will somehow enable normal Windows shutdown/ restart processing. It worked that way before I got it to go into cMP mode.
Thanks,
Grant
That's not a Toy... IT'S A TOOL !!
I've got the same problem again, now stuck in cMP mode and can't get out. I've also running Win XP SP1 and wonder if it is caused by differences in the registry between SP1 & SP2 (or SP3).
cics, what are the registry changes that set cMP mode or XP mode?
Grant, when this happened before, I'd gotten out by accident. What I did was to attach the harddrive to another computer and tried renaming Explorer.exe in the Windows directory to Explorer.sav, then copy in Explorer.exe from another PC. Because it was an XP Home machine, it didn't work, but afterwards I reattached the drive to another PC and renamed the Explorer.sav back and then started booting into XP mode again.
But I'd like to have a simpler way to do this in the future. Making a registry change (via a file) would be nice.
In the meantime, I've found that if I set cMP to bring up the task manager at startup, I can use it to close the cMP tasks and bring up the Windows Explorer by selecting "File-> Start New Task(Run)" and entereing "explorer.exe". From there, I can navigate to the "c:\Windows" and "c:\Windows\System32" directories and select various control panel items such as "services.msc" (to check services running), "sysdm.cpl" (control panel systems applet), and "appwiz.cpl" (control panel add-remove programs applet). This all works ok and isn't too cumbersome for me, but would be a pain for most people.
Greg in Mississippi
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