Newsgroup: it.comp.os.win.xp
Titolo: File System Error (65535)

I recently reformatted my hard drive and restored my original Windows
configuration using my laptop's recovery disks. Everything was working
fine, until I installed MS Office. Now all of a sudden my machine is
displaying some strange behavior:
1. The "Turn off Computer" button has disappeared from my start menu
2. If I delete a file it gets deleted straight away instead of going to
the Recycle Bin (even though I already unchecked the setting that
normally does this)
3. Plug and play usb devices are detected, but the drivers are never
fully installed and the "new hardware" icon remains in the taskbar.
4. Most confusing of all, if I right click anywhere and select
New-->Text Document (or any type of document), it displays an error
message saying "Could not create file" in the title bar, and "File
System Error (65535)" in the box. However I can create new files if I
start Notepad and save a file from there, and I can also modify
existing files.
5. And of course, Office itself doesn't work, displaying strange errors
like "your auto-correct file could not be loaded", or "Office has not
been installed for this user", or when I close Word for example, "The
Normal template could not be saved", and it asks me to save elsewhere.
Any idea why this might be happening, and what about Office may be
causing it? Is it something deeper within my system like bad sectors or
something? I've already run scandisk and asked it to fix bad sectors
where possible.

where possible.
I don't think it is strictly a file system problem.
It's very strange....
Maybe the cause is a bad registry setting.
I don't know.
Anyway this is the Italian Newsgroup of Windows XP.
So you won't receive many answer at all!
Try the official english newsgroup or another one in english. You'll
be able to get more answers!
Bye :)

Yes I just realised that it's Italian, at first I thought the "it"
meant Information Technology!
Anyway, do you think it may be registry issues caused by Office? And
can this be fixed by installing an Office service pack or something?
Thanks.


wrote:
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You should always apply latest service packs (for windows and office)
as first step before starting a deeper troubleshooting.
-- 
Alessandro Borille
Visita 
http://www.alessandraorsolato.it
Scrittrice emergente - Thriller - Gialli

Yes I just realised that it's Italian, at first I thought the "it"
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I can't say exactly what the problem is, but I think (and hope for
you!) that the problem is only in the Registry.
Even I had problem once time, installing Office. And uninstalling it
didn't resolve the problem.
Then I installed it again and it worked (almost) perfectly.
You can try.
Anyway it's possible that it could be impossible or very difficoult to
fix..... maybe you could only format...
I repeat... I don't know :(
Bye 
Apologize for my english. I hope u understood.

I definitely understood. Thanks for your help. I'll reinstall Office
and get the patches and service packs and see if that helps. If not I
guess I'll have to reformat

After a lot of digging around and another reformat and carefully
reinstalling every program one by one, it turns out that the problems
were all being caused by the latest version of McAfee anti-virus. I can
only assume it's an SP2 vs. SP1 issue, because I still have SP1 on my
machine.
As soon as I uninstalled McAfee, everything started working fine again.
I still don't have Office, but I'll install it today because I don't
think anymore that that is what the problem was.


wrote:
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Ok. Fine :)
So you have to install another antivirus. Try AVG, Kapesrsky or NOD32
(the top rated antivirus).
Bye