Hello all I'm here to try and find a fix for something that keeps popping up on my screen… a little "RTLunable to start driver for HPZipm12.exe" box, a friend told me it's a bot port? and I should HiJack it… hmmm where to post this question?
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It may help if you provide a bit more information about your machine, its configuration, and any changes you may have made just before the appearance of this problem.
"most" often this will be a matter of the Printer Driver having become corrupted.
You will need to "completely" uninstall the Printer Driver.
And then you will be able to install a fresh copy of the Printer Driver.
If you still are having difficulty after following the instructions of Cori Bright, linked above, then here is a more aggressive protocol for removing traces of Printer Driver that may still be creating an obstacle for you. http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm
Be cautious with the second protocol, because it involves making changes to your Registry.
Note: WTT always recommends that an owner/user make a fresh backup of Registry, BEFORE performing any work in the Registry.
So far, so good, Corie's article/instructions seem to have done the job, Yay!! It was frustrating to find the driver update at HP though, they could improve their search some, LOL…
Thanks so much Doug…
can you define configuration for me, I had no idea what you were talking about… am a dweeb, it's true… and a ditzy one at that! Next I need to learn how to figure out what processes are running silently and which I need to be, there's like 60 when I open task manager… and why every time I start up I get 3 windows saying there's not enough memory to run this application…."can't run 16-bit Windows application" No clue what that's about… hahaha! Thanks again and have a wonderful every day
Have you ever hiked in the forest and come to an open meadow?
You've been following a path up to the meadow, and you're sure the same path must continue on past the meadow somewhere on the other side, but you have no idea where the same path starts again and you have to search around looking for the most likely place to find your trail again. If you had a map, you would be able to go more directly to pick up the path where it starts again.
Or maybe you are a city person driving on a street and come to a Shopping Mall or City Park. You "know" that your present street "must" continue on to take you to your destination, but you have to futz around circling the Mall or Park until you find where your street begins again on the other side. If you had a map, you could go more directly to where your street picks up again.
Same thing for computers.
You "start" by pushing the power button and all the wonderful things that a computer does, start happening. Eventually presenting you with your Desktop, Icons, and TaskBar. Your computer's "configuration" memorizes where the "path" should be. You have grown to rely upon "clicking" on an icon to open your word processor or internet browser, and expect that it will "know where to go". It usually does. That's because when it was setup or installed, the proper "path" was "configured" such that your computer system "knows" where to look to find everything you will need to type up a letter in your word processor or browse to your favorite sites on the internet.
Sometimes this "configuration" becomes confused or goes missing or gets broken. You will occasionally read some techie person describing that your drivers or the path has become "corrupted." Problems with "configuration" can happen for many reasons, including that "it just happens", or a new application created a conflicting path or installed a conflicting driver, or a power-outage stopped the computer before it could put all the pieces back where they are supposed to be, and many other reasons.
When you think about it, it is a wonder that computers work "at all".
And the primary reason that they do work the way you want them to, is because the operating system and application software has "memorized" (configured) the pathways, such that when you click a program icon, the computer knows the path to your hard drive, to your video card, to your sound card, to your internet access, or to your printer, and knows the path to the hundreds of programs and processes that are needed to accomplish your desired goal.
At the risk of over-simplification, Windows XP is most often a 32bit sytem, and a few versions of XP are 64bit systems.
That is, generally, related the how big of a mouthful of data the system can grab at a single time…(mixed metaphor, sorry).
XP can grab packets of 32bits of information or 64bits of information.
Older windows systems could handle only up to 16bits of information at a time.
And older still machines may have been able to grab only 8 bits at a time.
There are plenty of old-favorite games and applications that people still use that were written (configured) for use on systems that were setup to handle 16bits at a time. You probably have such a game or application installed on your machine.
Windows XP must create a "16 bit subsystem" inside of which the pathways and instructions can handle "16 bit applicaiton".
Here's an easy fix from Kelly's Korner: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_m.htm#16bit
Just click on the XP_Fix.exe repair link (highlighted in blue.) That should fix you up.
There are some other specific instances of problems that may or may not apply to your machine.
Go ahead and read the rest of the information, but you will probably only have to apply the first fix.
Sixty (60) applications and processes loading at StartUp. Yikes.
Well, not really "yikes" but most machines have between 30-40 items running active in Task Manager.
We may be able to help sort out which functions you need and which ones are completely optional or unneeded.
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Please consider running this simple utility that will help you get control of programs and processes that you wish to have running active, or not.
Download and install, agreeing to the licensing terms and allow to install with all of the default settings as preselected in the installation wizard.
When you finally allow CodeStuff-Starters to run
It will preselect StartUps Tab)
• Click on File
• Select - save as .html (name the report file - Startups Aug 01.html)
In your next reply, post the file as an attached file (use browse and upload buttons – at the bottom-right corner of your topic posting window where you are typing your next reply)
Please do not make any changes with Code-Stuff Starters, until after you post the requested information above and receive recommendations from a helper here.
Best Regards
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KathyL,
You've been a good sport and we are happy to have you as a Member.
We don't usually do repair work in this same meet and greet Welcome Forum.
But I tend to get "wordy" or "windy" as some have mentioned to me.
As a result, I will probably move this whole Topic over to the Microsoft Windows Forum, where we usually do this kind of work.
Not your fault at all. So don't worry.
There will be a note left here for you to "click" on that will take you to the new "path" where your Topic will continue.
I'm here to try and find a fix for something that keeps popping up on my screen… a little "RTLunable to start driver for HPZipm12.exe" box, a friend told me it's a bot port? and I should HiJack it… hmmm where to post this question?
