NationStates Jolt Archive

Every time I shut down/restart my computer, I get the message SENDXMLC.EXE -DLL Initialisation Failed. If I click okay on that a few times, I get another message QMEGTETAB.EXE -DLL Initialisation Failed. If I just leave the error messages up there, the computer shuts down after a minute or two.

So, does anyone know what those are, and if this is something I should be worried about. Do I need to get it looked at/fixed, or can I just accept it as one of those stupid things my computer does? (If it isn't essential, I can't afford to pay to have it mended).

I also keep getting an error message telling me the Insufficient System Resources exist to do whatever (even if it's only opening Word or Freecell), despite the fact that that is clearly wrong because most of the time it will happily run two or three word documents, a game of freecell and multiple browser windows. After I reset, everything is fine. I've tried running a virus scan, and it didn't pick anything up.

I'm running Windows XP Home, with a 3.2 GHz P4 and (apparently) 448 MB of Ram. If it would make any difference, my hard drive has about 40 gigabytes of free space.

Anyway, thanks in advance for your help, General Forumite computer nerds...uh I mean geniuses.

*looks at WindowsXPHome standard initialisation log* Right, so far as I can tell those programs aren't part of the usual boot process, so could quite well be malware (and the problem with insufficient resources seems to suggest this too). What you need to do is find out where they are on disk by doing a file search (hoping you have time to this before it shuts itself down), and then report back to us telling us the directory in which they were found. In cases like this, I usually use some LiveCD version of Linux to have a poke around the harddisk when Windows isn't looking.

So, what does one do if c:\program pops up every time the computer starts?

The closest thing to sendxmlc.exe that showed up was

sendxmlc.exe-0DC658FF.pf in C:\WINDOWS\prefetch

Haven't managed to find the other one yet.

Every time I shut down/restart my computer, I get the message SENDXMLC.EXE -DLL Initialisation Failed. If I click okay on that a few times, I get another message QMEGTETAB.EXE -DLL Initialisation Failed. If I just leave the error messages up there, the computer shuts down after a minute or two.

So, does anyone know what those are, and if this is something I should be worried about. Do I need to get it looked at/fixed, or can I just accept it as one of those stupid things my computer does? (If it isn't essential, I can't afford to pay to have it mended).

I also keep getting an error message telling me the Insufficient System Resources exist to do whatever (even if it's only opening Word or Freecell), despite the fact that that is clearly wrong because most of the time it will happily run two or three word documents, a game of freecell and multiple browser windows. After I reset, everything is fine. I've tried running a virus scan, and it didn't pick anything up.

I'm running Windows XP Home, with a 3.2 GHz P4 and (apparently) 448 MB of Ram. If it would make any difference, my hard drive has about 40 gigabytes of free space.

Anyway, thanks in advance for your help, General Forumite computer nerds...uh I mean geniuses.


Well, even though I really don't like you and am mad as hell at you for the nonsense you pulled with me last week, I will offer up a suggestion that no one else has yet.

Have you tried starting up in "Safe Mode?"
Perhaps if you did that, it would give you an opportunity to look around in your program registry and find where these pesky little programs are.

Then you could get rid of them. Assuming they are not, in fact, needed by Windows.

Alternately, you could try just re-installing Windows, but you do run the risk of losing everything on your hard drive if you take that route, so I would defitiely try to back up anything irreplaceable before taking that drastic step.

Seriously, first I would try a start-up in Safe Mode. See if it then lets you look around for a while. You won't be able to delete while in Safe Mode, but at least then you will know where the files are at.

Well, even though I really don't like you and am mad as hell at you for the nonsense you pulled with me last week, I will offer up a suggestion that no one else has yet.

Have you tried starting up in "Safe Mode?"
Perhaps if you did that, it would give you an opportunity to look around in your program registry and find where these pesky little programs are.

Then you could get rid of them. Assuming they are not, in fact, needed by Windows.

Alternately, you could try just re-installing Windows, but you do run the risk of losing everything on your hard drive if you take that route, so I would defitiely try to back up anything irreplaceable before taking that drastic step.

Seriously, first I would try a start-up in Safe Mode. See if it then lets you look around for a while. You won't be able to delete while in Safe Mode, but at least then you will know where the files are at.


Thanks for that, Lyric. And, um, sorry about being a bit of an ass. But hey, at least I'm not Avalon2, right?

I agree w/ Lyric (never thought I'ld say that :) ) . If you have one, use your anti-virus emergency disk as well.

Do you have any Mal-ware protectors on your computer? (adaware, etc)

Do you have any Mal-ware protectors on your computer? (adaware, etc)

I'm only using the Norton stuff that came with it. I'm dumb, right?

The closest thing to sendxmlc.exe that showed up was

sendxmlc.exe-0DC658FF.pf in C:\WINDOWS\prefetch

Haven't managed to find the other one yet.
Aha, prefetch files. You should be able to stop these running by disabling the task scheduler. Go to 'Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Scheduled Tasks', then click on 'Stop Using Task Scheduler' in the 'Advanced' menu. When the computer next boots, it should be disabled. If this works you'll then be able to run the computer for long enough to get a better idea of what's going on.

Aha, prefetch files. You should be able to stop these running by disabling the task scheduler. Go to 'Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Scheduled Tasks', then click on 'Stop Using Task Scheduler' in the 'Advanced' menu. When the computer next boots, it should be disabled. If this works you'll then be able to run the computer for long enough to get a better idea of what's going on.

Cool. Thanks.

Thanks for that, Lyric. And, um, sorry about being a bit of an ass. But hey, at least I'm not Avalon2, right?

Apology accepted, and hope my advice helps a bit.

As to Avalon...well, it just isn't in good taste to talk about another player, when that player is not present, or able to respond, so I'll refrain.

I'm only using the Norton stuff that came with it. I'm dumb, right?

Shit. Norton is a virus in and of itself! Now that you have it installed you will NEVER get rid of it.

There are much better antivirus programs out there than Norton.

Have you tried running system restore to a time when you didn't have the problem? System restore has gotten me out of every tricky situation I've had, since I got XP.

Shit. Norton is a virus in and of itself! Now that you have it installed you will NEVER get rid of it.

There are much better antivirus programs out there than Norton.
So true! It even shut down two of my other anti-virus programs and my firewall...

EDIT: And let's not forget it being more needy then a smal child. Fuckin' jumping up infront of eveything and demanding attention!