Fun With Windows (TM)
Mar. 26th, 2003 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaThis morning my computer didn't start up, owing to not being able to find the hive mind.
Well, OK, hive file, but the message flashed past so fast I misread it first time.
45 mins later our sysdmin had it going again, but a bizarre selection of my software hasn't survived the experience (which was registry corruption).
Outlook is completely stuffed. Emacs, the application that usually prevails over everything, is completely stuffed - which is confusing me, as I wouldn't expect it to do much with the registry.
Winamp is fine, and is cheerfully still playing the list of mp3s I had running last night.
I just tried to install Xemacs instead, but failed to be able to run it properly. It kept complaining on start up that it couldn't find gnuserv. gnuserv is quite clearly installed on my machine, but I presume it's looking in the wrong place. Does anyone know (a) how to tell where it's looking and and (b) how to tell it to look somewhere different? I'm very fond of emacs as a thing to use, but I do find its setup and all its lispy business a bit of a mystery.
Currently resurrected old ordinary-emacs, and using that.
Oh, and after all the excitment of yesterday, I don't think it's hayfever after all. I think I've just got a cold.
Well, OK, hive file, but the message flashed past so fast I misread it first time.
45 mins later our sysdmin had it going again, but a bizarre selection of my software hasn't survived the experience (which was registry corruption).
Outlook is completely stuffed. Emacs, the application that usually prevails over everything, is completely stuffed - which is confusing me, as I wouldn't expect it to do much with the registry.
Winamp is fine, and is cheerfully still playing the list of mp3s I had running last night.
I just tried to install Xemacs instead, but failed to be able to run it properly. It kept complaining on start up that it couldn't find gnuserv. gnuserv is quite clearly installed on my machine, but I presume it's looking in the wrong place. Does anyone know (a) how to tell where it's looking and and (b) how to tell it to look somewhere different? I'm very fond of emacs as a thing to use, but I do find its setup and all its lispy business a bit of a mystery.
Currently resurrected old ordinary-emacs, and using that.
Oh, and after all the excitment of yesterday, I don't think it's hayfever after all. I think I've just got a cold.
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Date: 2003-03-26 03:29 am (UTC)But the obvious conclusion is that it's looking for some registry key that will tell it where to find the thing, and the fix would be to add a suitable key... Which might not be possible by hand, unless you can find someone else who has it installed properly and search their registry for it.
Manual registry editing! It's so much fun!
Seriously, though, is this something that you can individually reinstall?