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Title: Tec Advice
Post by: Miss Demeanour on February 06, 2012, 07:50:44 AM
Whats a hive file missing from the registry ?  Banghead

I am meant to be working at home today but my work laptop keeps looping back to this and won't start.

I may have to go into the office at this rate ?  sad24:
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Snoopy on February 06, 2012, 08:03:16 AM
Ooooooo That's bad!

Hive File is where all the bizzy likkle bees live and they have to carry all the pixels around 'cos pixels can't fly.

No hive file = no bizzy bees = No pooter workee.

Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Barman on February 06, 2012, 08:05:30 AM
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A hive is a logical group of keys, subkeys, and values in the registry that has a set of supporting files containing backups of its data.

Each time a new user logs on to a computer, a new hive is created for that user with a separate file for the user profile. This is called the user profile hive. A user's hive contains specific registry information pertaining to the user's application settings, desktop, environment, network connections, and printers. User profile hives are located under the HKEY_USERS key.

Registry files have the following two formats: standard and latest. The standard format is the only format supported by Windows 2000. It is also supported by later versions of Windows for backward compatibility. The latest format is supported starting with Windows XP. On versions of Windows that support the latest format, the following hives still use the standard format: HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SAM, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security, and HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT; all other hives use the latest format.

Most of the supporting files for the hives are in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Config directory. These files are updated each time a user logs on. The file name extensions of the files in these directories, or in some cases a lack of an extension, indicate the type of data they contain. The following table lists these extensions along with a description of the data in the file.

I think you'll have to get a man in... happy100
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Snoopy on February 06, 2012, 08:09:46 AM
Frankly I preferred my explanation but if I were Miss D and looking to avoid going into the office I'd try restoring to a previous date when the bloody thing was there.
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Barman on February 06, 2012, 08:16:18 AM
Frankly I preferred my explanation but if I were Miss D and looking to avoid going into the office I'd try restoring to a previous date when the bloody thing was there.

It would be worth a try...

Being the office laptop she may not have permission to do so tho...
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Miss Demeanour on February 06, 2012, 08:18:49 AM
Exacly BM - can't do nuffink with it in terms of tinkering.

Our I.T  support is based in feckin Poland  Banghead

I have logged a call  noooo:

I may need to get dressed and go into work  sad32:

Why was it werking perfectly fine Friday night, logged off properly etc , come Monday morning when it hasn't been touched all weekend it comes up with this absolute load of nonsense  cussing:
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: apc2010 on February 06, 2012, 08:20:13 AM
Exacly BM - can't do nuffink with it in terms of tinkering.

Our I.T  support is based in feckin Poland  Banghead

I have logged a call  noooo:

I may need to get dressed and go into work  sad32:

Why was it werking perfectly fine Friday night, logged off properly etc , come Monday morning when it hasn't been touched all weekend it comes up with this absolute load of nonsense  cussing:


The Brat.......... rubschin:
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Barman on February 06, 2012, 08:21:26 AM
Exacly BM - can't do nuffink with it in terms of tinkering.

Our I.T  support is based in feckin Poland  Banghead

I have logged a call  noooo:

I may need to get dressed and go into work  sad32:

Why was it werking perfectly fine Friday night, logged off properly etc , come Monday morning when it hasn't been touched all weekend it comes up with this absolute load of nonsense  cussing:

Fuck knows how or why they perform that particular trick....  noooo:
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: apc2010 on February 06, 2012, 09:56:46 AM
Whats a hive file missing from the registry ?  Banghead

I am meant to be working at home today but my work laptop keeps looping back to this and won't start.

I may have to go into the office at this rate ?  sad24:

Could be worse .......you could have to go to the pub with Baldy n BM............ noooo:
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Miss Demeanour on February 06, 2012, 09:58:46 AM
Thanks for the reality check  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: tel on February 06, 2012, 02:25:58 PM
Will prolly have to be hard-wired to office network and group policies etc will be re-instated, or it gets binned and rebuilt.
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Miss Demeanour on February 08, 2012, 10:46:04 AM
Well the I.T man has just been in touch.

The technical confirmation states..."your hard drive is broken"  noooo:

Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: tel on February 08, 2012, 11:23:56 AM
Head crash?
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Miss Demeanour on February 08, 2012, 11:29:43 AM
 whacky115
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Barman on February 08, 2012, 11:32:26 AM
Well the I.T man has just been in touch.

The technical confirmation states..."your hard drive is broken"  noooo:

Did somebody drop the computer....?  whistle:
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Miss Demeanour on February 08, 2012, 11:53:47 AM
No - I really haven't  sad24:
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Barman on February 08, 2012, 11:55:46 AM
No - I really haven't  sad24:

Well, it will all be fixed when they replace the hard drive... along with all your data, settings and passwords of course...  noooo:
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: tel on February 08, 2012, 12:01:04 PM
whacky115

Wot?
Title: Re: Tec Advice
Post by: Grumpmeister on February 08, 2012, 05:20:01 PM
Miss D's computer gets recycled

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