Thanks, that lead to some detailed remedies. The the fixes seem to involve
surgery within Windows, so I want to have a backup plan, such as fax software.
Winfax has been discontinued for some time.
Anyone know of decent free or modest cost fax software?
-- LS
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This seems to be an issue which can easily affect Thinkpads so I'm including
info for the curious. It appears that fxdrv.dll is a peripheral component of
this issue; the basis is an internal windows OS DB which can invisibly become
corrupted.
Info related to fixing this family of errors snipped from various MS KB:
What is the issue: The local Group Policy database file is corrupt, which
blocks installation of other MS software. In my case it was MS fax.
"This problem occurs when you try to install one or more of the following
Windows components:
* Accessories and Utilities
* Fax services
* Indexing Service
* Internet Explorer
* Internet Information Services (IIS)
* Management and Monitoring Tools
* Message Queuing
* MSN Explorer
* Networking Services
* Other Network File and Print Services
* Outlook Express
* Update Root Certificates
* Windows Media Player
* Windows Messenger
"Specifically, you may experience this symptom after you install Windows XP
Service Pack 2 (SP2) on a computer that has a built-in Atheros wireless network
device and when you then try to install a Bluetooth device." and
"This problem occurs because the security database is corrupted."
One can either apply a hotfix or fix the security db via erasing all group
policies. Mutzng with the security policy db is not something you want to do
without a complete backup and a spare machine, or at least a spare, cloned disk
you can swap in.
/ Quote from MS: Article ID: 884018 which is part of the chain for this
issue)
We do not recommend that you use the Esentutl.exe utility to recover from
security database corruption. The Esentutl.exe utility fixes corruption by
deleting data from the database and could possibly permanently mark Group
Policy settings in the registry. Only use this kind of repair as a last resort.
To
resolve this problem, rebuild the corrupted security database. For
additional information about how to rebuild a corrupted security
database, click the following article number to view the article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278316/
278316 warns "When you use the following procedure, your computer is returned
to the
original installation state where the Local Security Policy is not
defined. You may have to start your computer in Safe mode to rename or
move files."
Fw: Re: [Thinkpad] Cannot install MS fax on Thinkpad; fxdrv.dll not accepted
Re: [Thinkpad] Cannot install MS fax on Thinkpad; fxdrv.dll not accepted
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:42:12 AM
From:
"Aryeh Goretsky (home)" <[email protected]>
To:
"" <[email protected]>Hello,
I am not sure if it will help, but I found a message thread on a web
forum discussing a similar issue:
http://forum.worldstart.com/showthread.php?t=90260
While it did not appear to be resolved there, perhaps some of the
troubleshooting steps mentioned in the message thread will work on
the T40.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 10:00 AM 10/13/2009, you wrote:
>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:45:07 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Laurence <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Thinkpad] Cannot install MS fax on Thinkpad; fxdrv.dll not
>
>To: [email protected]
>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>
>
>I'm trying to install the MS fax facility from "Add or Remove
>Windows Components". It fails at "Setup cannot copy fxdrv.dll" and
>points to the service pack files directory. I can select what
>appears to be the correct file, but it is not accepted. Opening the
>directory shows the file exists, is 26KB and has version 0.3.2600.5512.
>
>1. Is this a known problem and readily fixed?
>2. MS fax is free, but is there a better free fax program? I don't
>want to buy something like Winfax for the few occasions when I need
>to fax over a phone line.
>
>T40 XP SP3, no known problems.
>
>thanks
>
>Larry
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