Items filtered by date: December 2015

Issue:

Missing Windows hal.dll file.

Cause:

The missing or cannot find hal.dll, \windows\system32\hal.dll, or \winnt\system32\hal.dll error message may be experienced on a Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP system when the boot.ini becomes corrupted or when a user is attempting to dual boot a computer.

Solution:

Verify that the computer boot.ini is present and not corrupted

1. Verify the boot.ini file is found on the computer by using a boot diskette or use your Windows CD to get to the MS-DOS "C:\>" prompt.
2. From this prompt edit the boot.ini, verify that it is pointing to the correct operating system, and that no anomalies are found within the file. Additional information about editing the boot.ini as well as additional information about its available options can be found on document CH000492. Below is a listing of what to verify

• If only one operating system is on the computer verify that the boot.ini only has one operating system listed. In some situations an alternate configuration line may be added for the same operating system, leaving the improper line.
• Verify that the "default=" line as well as the operating system line are the same and that they are pointing to the correct operating system.

Verify that the computer has the hal.dll file

From the MS-DOS "C:\>" prompt quickly determine if your computer has the "hal.dll" file by typing "dir hal.dll /s" at the prompt. If the computer returns a "File not found" message, the hal.dll has been deleted. 

To recover this file boot the Windows operating system CD and choose the option to "Restore", "Repair", or "Recover." This option will prompt you for the Windows installation to use, the administrators password and will allow you to restore the proper file. At the MS-DOS prompt type the below command.

expand x:\i386\hal.dl_ y:\windows\system32\

In the above example "x" would be the letter of your CD-ROM drive and "y" the letter of the drive your operating system is installed on. For example, your disc drive may be D: and your hard drive is likely C:.

Additional information about the expand command can be found on our expand help page.

Reinstall the operating system

If the boot.ini is found on the computer and does not appear to be corrupted and/or if the hal.dll file is missing it is recommended that you reinstall your Windows operating system.

Additional information about erasing everything and starting over can be found on document CH000186.

Additional information:

• See our HAL dictionary definition page for additional information about this term and related definitions.

1. CGoto your control panel (XP)
2. Select regional and language settings
3. Select customise
4. Now change the list separator to whatever you want.

The list seperator in Excel is now changed for csv files

My editor now open up with the cursor flashing in the middle, it also defaults back to this posistion rather than the left as all text editors should.

This causes the obvious problems of having to left align everything every time. Something is pre centering everything. I install tinymce just to see what that would do, it works fine.

Once when i pasted some text in in pasted in as a very thin colum in the middle, like an invisible table had been made.

In all these instances there is no code in the html view, also i have tried reinstalling the admin and editor. this changes nothing. I am running joomla 1.5.8 on a php 5 and mysql 5 linux server. The editor has been running fine for about 2 weeks that i have noticed.

The is due to a setting in your template css file -

http://joomlacontenteditor.net/support/ ... tyles.html

For a quick fix I changed the template back the default one.

Make sure the option is still selected

Tools-> Options-> tab Preferences-> button E-mail Options…-> button Advanced E-mail Options…-> option Show an envelope in the notification area

Make sure the envelope isn’t hidden in the Notification Area

When you are using Windows XP unused and inactive icons in the Notification Area are automatically hidden. You can either expand the Notification Area to see the unused icons or configure the Notification Area to always show the envelope. To customize the Notification area;

1. Start-> Control Panel-> Taskbar and Start Menu-> button Customize…
2. Find the envelope and click on the dropdown list and configure it from “Hide when inactive” to “Always show”
3. Press OK twice to close the open windows

*The Notification Area in Windows XP is what the System tray is in previous versions of Windows

When you load Windows Vista you get a blue screen with the following error:

“Stop: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
 The initial session process or system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0×000000000 (some more hex codes)”

Also System Restore through Repair Environment which did not work either, it kept saying unexpected error or something like that.

What I tried

• Clean install of Vista
• moved contents of system32\config from broken install to clean one
• also moved old Users directory

Problem still exhibited. Must be a registry/configuration issue then, not system files.

Cause

The problem was within the SOFTWARE hive. To verify I moved all the clean install stuff (Windows , Program Files, Users, ProgramData) to a folder called “clean” and moved all the folders out of Windows.old back into C:\ , so in effect returning the machine back to its original state before the clean install. I then replaced SOFTWARE with SOFTWARE.OLD and all is well.

Solution

• Boot into the recovery enviroment
• Navigate to c:\windows\system32\config
• rename SOFTWARE to SOFTWARE.off
• navigate to c:\windows\system32\config\RegBack
• copy the latest SOFTWARE file to c:\windows\system32\config
• reboot computer

Windows should now load ok but you need to do a few thigns for completeness.

• create a new system restore point
• run system restore to a suitable point. This makes sure all of the registry and files all match up
• reboot the computer

Done