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| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 4:55 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00  | Ok, my laptop is working fine last night, i wake up this morning and the screen can only get 16 colors, the mouse 'arrow' is gone, and the screen itself is only 640 by 480 instead of its usual 1024 by 768. when i go to display to change it, it restarts and nothing changes. I'm not sure if thisis where i should ask it but any help would be much appreciated. EDIT: Also when it startrs i getg an error message saying that wcmdmgr has caused an error in Kernel32.dll  This message was edited by IkeaBoy on 11-22-01 @ 6:03 PM | ||||
| imapervert I want my two dollars! | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 7:03 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | This same thing happened to me just yesterday, I couldn't see my mouse and the screen was larger than normal. I actually go tthe mouse over the start button to shut down but I couldn't get it over the Okay button to shut down, pain in the ass when you're flying blind. I just unplugged it from the wall and all was cool. I'm sure our new geek moderator will be able to help you when he sees this. | ||||
| Spork | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 7:25 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | Ikeaboy, what operating system? Have you installed any new programs lately, maybe even little applets found on the web? It sounds like this one place, http://www.wildtangent.com is the company responsible for the wcmdmgr... sounds like it could be a 3-D screensaver or something perhaps? Anyway, check out these uninstall instructions and see if this is your problem: How do I uninstall the Web Driver and Web Driver content? If you have a recent version of the Web Driver, you can uninstall using Add/ Remove Programs in the Windows control panel- be sure to uninstall the Web Driver and any other Web Driver content first, and the Updater last. If you have an older version of the Web Driver, or if you've uninstalled the Updater before uninstalling other Web Driver content, you can remove the Web Driver by going to your "c:\windows\wt" or "c:\winnt\wt" directory and running the batch file called "stopwcmdr.bat". Then delete the "wt" directory and reboot your computer (If Windows is not letting you delete some of the files in the wt directory, reboot and delete the file after rebooting). There may be other steps involved depending on the product installed and your operating system, please continue reading below to complete the removal. Users of Windows NT and Windows 2000 will also want to delete the start up reference to the Web Driver. This can be accomplished by starting the Regedit utility (Start Menu | Run | "Regedit"), then using the Edit | Find command to search for the string "wcmdmgrl". This entry should be deleted from the registry by right-clicking on it and selecting "delete". Although this step is optional for users of Windows 95, 98, and ME, you may also perform it if you'd like to clean up your registry a bit. If the Web Driver was installed with a music visualizer, after you've removed the Web Driver you'll also need to remove the visualizer. This procedure varies depending on your choice of MP3 player. For Winamp, delete the "wt" directory and the file called "wtwav.dll" from Winamp's "plugins" directory. For Sonique, UltraPlayer, or Windows Media Player, delete the "wt" folder from the "vis" or "visualizations" directory associated with the player. For Real Player, delete the "wt" directory from Finally, if you installed the Web Driver as part of a screensaver, you should also delete the "WildTangent Screen Savers" directory from your "Programs" directory, and remove the file called "WildTangent Screen Savers.scr" file from your "Windows" directory. If you only want to remove a single game, visualizer, or screensaver, without removing all of them, simply remove the directory containing that content. The directories where content is installed is as follows: Games: Screensavers: Visualizers: The individual visualizers are located in the wtvis subfolder of the wt folder; the wt folder will be in different locations for different players. See above for details. Note again that when removing visualizers from Real Player, you should also remove the rpv files associated with the visualizer, found in the Visualizations directory.  Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 7:29 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Nice detective work, Spork. Ikea, let us know if his suggestion works. If that company is the one who made that program, it might just do it. Even if you don't know that you installed something new, I would still look in the registry. Things run on startup from this path in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run........ also RunServices on the 9x series. Anything you see in that key is a program that loads on startup. You may also want to grab an updated video driver from your laptop manufacturer's site.  "Miracles and lucky charms made the girl of my dreams the girl in my arms." - Dr. Frank | ||||
| Cranky Ass | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 7:42 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01 | Wow, you motherfuckers are good. ________________  Read Me On Foundry | Listen To Me On RonFez.net Radio | AIM Me | E-Mail Me Support Firemen, Red Cross, United Way, Salvation Army, and everyone else helping restore peace. | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 8:26 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | I'm on an HP Pavilion N5470 using Windows 2000. I might reload W2K when I go back to my dorm after Thanksgiving but not being able to use the mouse is a bitch. Thanks, I've tried these things and it hasn't worked. | ||||
| Kid Afrika | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 8:38 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | quote: Well, now we know exactly what your problem is. :)
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| nj_voodoo | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 8:39 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | ikeaboy, I was going to try to help. but you are in better hands here. When are you guys starting to work for the CIA? Nice detective work kids! Kudos.... | ||||
| Spork | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 9:33 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | Hmm, for some reason I'm still convinced that it might have something to do with that WCMDMGR.exe file though... that could have been installed via many means, likely one you can't remember (did it show up in add/remove programs in control panel?) I think another use of it is for visualizations for WinAmp, did you install anything like that recently? There are a couple of other things you can try. Reboot your PC, but when you see the "Starting Windows" deal come up, hit F8 right away. Select the "Last Known Good" option. Make SURE that you read that screen carefully, as you need to press "L" and then hit the enter key to get the system to really boot into that mode. To aid our diagnostics, it would also help if you could go to Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer. Check the system event logs and see if you have any red marks in there and then check the application logs. I would really try giving the Last Known good a whirl though, that's precisely what it's there for (a bad driver or error or that sort of thing), but it depends how well the system thinks its own health is. It may be that it doesn't think it has booted up well since this change. If that's the case then LNG will work. Let us know, more information = more gooder! Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
| FoundryMusicHummercash | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 9:43 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: May. 00 | i thought computer related problems got posted in Gaming... ;) GO DOWNLOAD MY WTC TRIBUTE MOVIE!!! You can also download my SCREENSAVER. | ||||
| Kid Afrika | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 10:14 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 |  | ||||
| onehung lo434 | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 10:16 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: Thanks for the tip spork. After veiwing the times of my previously posted errors, I have found the source of my problem. This message was edited by onehung lo434 on 11-23-01 @ 6:08 AM | ||||
| QuickStop I won the last OA.com Sig contest & all I got was this cheesey status... Who is driving? Oh my God! Bear is Driving! How can that be?!? G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Kickflip b/s Tailslide Strike Team | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 10:23 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 01 | i am so out of this conversation, yet i felt compelled to post. odd AIM | E-MAIL My grandmother always said, "Why buy the cow, when you can get the sex for free?" | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 10:33 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | I realized I made a mistake. I'm not on Windows 2K but Windows ME (2000, Millenium, I'm tired) and while the mouse does work on safe mode, it still doesn'twork on normla mode. color problem still around EIT: I'd like to add that nearly everything I open says causes an error with Kernel... but still opens. This message was edited by IkeaBoy on 11-22-01 @ 10:37 PM | ||||
| Spork | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 10:44 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | Hmm, Windows ME - haven't even TOUCHED it, but check out this article on ZDNet about the PC Health tools for Windows ME - apparently there is a system restore type utility that may be able to help you out of this jam! (Again, let us know how this works, I'll keep trying, damnit!:)) Visit this Website Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 11:02 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | The System Restore worked pefectly, I set it to go back one day and it worked fine. thanks so much | ||||
| Sephiroth | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 11:18 PM | | |||
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| Spork | posted on 11-22-2001 @ 11:21 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | quote: Ahhh, it's always good to beat the machine! Score one for the good guys! :) Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 11-23-2001 @ 12:05 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Nice one, Spork. Had I known it was ME, I probably would have said the same thing... if I'd been here. Wanna be my geek apprentice? :) "Miracles and lucky charms made the girl of my dreams the girl in my arms." - Dr. Frank | ||||
| Spork | posted on 11-23-2001 @ 12:07 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | It was actually a bit of a tricky one. I honestly have never seen a copy of Windows ME before (not exactly a corporate OS!) and damn, I haven't been doing "desktop support" for a year or so now. It's always about asking the questions though isn't it. Troubleshooting is troubleshooting is troubleshooting. Now I only I can pass my damn test for this crap on Tuesday I'll be a little happier... Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 11-23-2001 @ 12:11 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Oh, it's easy to explain ME. Take Windows 98. Add some decent new features. Add user-stupidity features. Make it buggy and unstable as all fucking hell. Rush it out the door. And you've got Windows ME. "Miracles and lucky charms made the girl of my dreams the girl in my arms." - Dr. Frank | ||||
| The Sleeper Being a Minor is a Threat to my Social Life PoseUr i ahve 2 threads at teh top, i feel like maynard | posted on 11-23-2001 @ 12:48 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: FYI, the guy on the left lives in my building. No, I have not met him but I know people who have. Yes, that is the only thing I could possibly contribute to a thread about computers.  | ||||
| Sephiroth | posted on 11-23-2001 @ 12:48 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | quote: You forgot to mention the 28 fatal errors and 3 mandatory reboots that occur everyday.
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| OAAWITE | posted on 11-25-2001 @ 3:29 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | Hvae you tried restarting it? That's what I do when there's a problem. But just to be safe, you should get more processers.  Best sports writer ever | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 11-25-2001 @ 11:53 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: You know you just don't get processors out of thin air. Plus you need a special Motherboard that supports more than one and even that it's limited to two.  Resident Board Socialist IM me at stickysituation2 | ||||
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