Author Topic: The parameter is incorrect. eh what? (Read 1152 times)

LC0g · « **on:** August 16, 2008, 11:13:03 am »

This error happens sometimes when I run an app... Per example: I click on IE. BOOM!!! Window screen telling me the parameter is incorrect. ok.

I click on it again to run it again, and it works.

Have you guys encounter this before??? thanks!

LC0g

DAwG · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2008, 11:32:02 am »

errr... reformat?

quorn · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2008, 01:51:37 pm »

Unless you're having other weird errors, just deal with it. Is it worth the pain of reformatting?

DAwG · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2008, 02:30:40 pm »

I would say...maybe try to run registry mechanic or some other registry fixer

LC0g · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2008, 10:25:41 pm »

yeah that's weird... I already tried Registry Mechanics... didn't work. maybe will have to reformat

do you guys reformat often???

LC0g

anomaly · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2008, 10:31:29 pm »

Quote from: LC0g on August 18, 2008, 10:25:41 pm

do you guys reformat often???

LC0g

about every 6 months...

LC0g · « **Reply #6 on:** August 19, 2008, 08:08:00 am »

what about the like genuine windows key?!? you call MS each times?

thx!

LC0g

anomaly · « **Reply #7 on:** August 19, 2008, 08:15:49 am »

my discs are all OEM. im not sure if that has anything to do with it but i just use the same key every time.

my Dell disc doesn't even ask for a key.

LC0g · « **Reply #8 on:** August 19, 2008, 06:37:04 pm »

Quote from: anomaly on August 19, 2008, 08:15:49 am

my discs are all OEM. im not sure if that has anything to do with it but i just use the same key every time.

my Dell disc doesn't even ask for a key.

my disc is OEM to. but when I had the mem prob (endless boot), I had to clear CMOS and all the capacitors: when I booted up, and logged on, it says to register for the genuine advantage.... I had to call MS

but I have to say it went smoothly

will maybe reformat tonight. will see.

LC0g

DAwG · « **Reply #9 on:** August 19, 2008, 10:16:18 pm »

well as long as you can understand what they're saying you should be fine

Farmchild · « **Reply #10 on:** August 19, 2008, 10:42:13 pm »

You shouldn't need to reformat that often. If you do, it just means you're not that great at solving computer problems.... reformatting is the cop-out

. You can usually google an error, or ask around and find a solution on msdn, or use windbg to debug dump files to figure out what is the problem, or at least do a windows repair...

mephisto_kur · « **Reply #11 on:** August 19, 2008, 10:51:41 pm »

Actually, Farm, it is well known and acknowledged by MS that Windows slows down significantly over time, as well as higher levels of errors as files slowly corrupt. Reloading every 6 months is the general rule for just about every computer tech i know, including me. I don't recommend it to normal users until the system starts to truly become unstable, but the simple fact is that reloading often is the only way to keep Windows running at peak efficiency.

anomaly · « **Reply #12 on:** August 20, 2008, 08:27:36 am »

yea, im more of a clean slate kind of guy.

i don't know everything about Xp by any stretch of imagination. but i reformat even if nothing is wrong. i would call it preventive maintenance as opposed to "not being great at solving computer problems"

to me its kind of like changing your car's oil. you do it every so often to avoid larger problems.

if i understood programming more maybe i would feel differently... but yea... other than disc cleaning and defraging every week, i tend to direct my time to the more physical issues about computers. like finding the cheapest way to make things cooler and faster.

LC0g · « **Reply #13 on:** August 20, 2008, 09:50:33 am »

what is wrong with formatting Farm? just back up your mp3 library, backup all your saved games

and your good to go

LC0g

DAwG · « **Reply #14 on:** August 20, 2008, 01:03:59 pm »

or just set up separate partitions to begin with, and store everything on a separate partition from your OS, then the dreaded backup doesn't pose a threat