hi guys!!! ok bear with me here...all i can ask for is a point in a logical direction..all asnwers are appreciated...i netmeet with my girl in australia..but now netmeeting is all messed up on her end..it usuallly works just fine..i have dsl and she has a 56k...heres what she did right when the problem started...she installed the latest winamp 3.something..then she said her pc was acting funny and thought she got a virus...no..no virus there..she said she had 2 winamps installed and just deleted them!! not uninstlled ..deleted...so last night with alot of typing we found a missing windows/system file i believe it was regsrv32.exe..so i had her restore from the cd...she reinstalled netmeeting but its still not working..she can sometimes hear me but i cant hear her..i tried on a different pc and her voice was very chopped up and sounded like "alvin" from the "chipmunks"..its very hard to get a correct answer from this girl..so i dont have much to give you..like i said a point in a logical direction is about all i can ask for...i think under the circumstances a reinstall over the os is appropriate...also about the same time her isp changed her dial up number..she didnt mention anything about them telling her to change any settings..so im almost sure this isnt a proxy issue...any help will be appreciated...if you saw her you would understand....hee hee ...wink.... anybody know any good netmeeting servers?

deleting stuff rather than uninstalling leaves registry references that point to nowhere. it's probably directing her audio to god knows where. she could revert back to a version of the registry prior to her installing winamp. this is done (in most cases) by rebooting and hitting F8 right after the BOST beep. there's usually a repair option there that allows you to choose a registry version by date. Oh and here's some netmeeting stuff.

The command RayMan is on about is "scanreg /restore" without quotes and it needs to be done in msdos get there by pressing F8 as it says "Starting windows" you have to be quick :) choose "comand promp only" Then type "scanreg /restore" and pres enter choose a date (with up and down arrow) prior to problems and press enter After its done press reset and pray :) hope that helped

almost forgot it all depends on your os What i said should work on just about any win9x its probably different on NT variants

do you think "sytem file checker" can achieve the same results if found corrupted files were restored? i just want to make it easy for her. but this advice is gold...thanks guys

ok i decided to check scanreg/restore on my system...the dates that i had to choose from did not go back far enough to help her...her prob started about 8 days ago...so...will "system file checker" work if corrupted are restored?...im thinking it will...

sure if one or more system files sre missing or corrupted. the registry restore thing, i seem to recall that each time you boot up it creates a new entry in that list, But if you just did an OS reinstall or you never trun off the computer then you wouldn't have a good restore file. how about using regedit, backing up the current registry first and do a find on "winamp", no quotes, and delete any references to it, especially those associated with RUN. If necessary either use email or instant message to explain the procedure before she tries this.