File Extensions quirk !

To Navid

No good -- none of the three extensions is in the area mentioned, alas.

If these file extenstions are not registered on the list, then they don't exist on your windows registry.
What do you mean by "But they, and this problem, keep coming back" ?
Do you mean that every time you run windoctor, it indicates that 3 invalid file extensions can be found on your registry? Or can you find files with these extensions in your hard drive which refer to an invalid program?

My advice is get rid of Norotn's! As you see I am not a big supporter of this product! otherwise then that I would make sure you have a goood anti-virus program running and that it is up to date! Dave
P.S. You might want to check under your win.ini under load= and run= to make make sure you don't have something running here.
The only other advise is to run regedit from the start\run command and search these culprits out and delete these keys. Don't use Nortons do it manually!~

emery800,
What do you have against Norton. This is not the first comment I have seen you make that was negative towards Norton. They make a great product that hogs all of your memory and takes most of your available system resources to do the same things that you yourself could do. If they took any more memory, they would have to call it Windows, but that would be a copyright infrindgement, wouldn't it.

Well I agree with Dave.Although Norton company is a good software production, Norton win doctor and system doctor or ... are no good. Most of the time, they refer to problems that don't exist. Sometimes they fix problems which are not really problems but will create problems!!
Norton utili. and Norton optimiser is good for newbies who can not fix the problems manually. But unfortunatly most of the time, they can't indicate the right/real problems.

I do not mean to be negative against norton products! I can only base my comments on my use of their products. They are great but very powerfull! I have lost a lot of harddrives to their utilities, I still use their winfaxpro (its great), however, most users do not know how strong this product is and they should be careful using it. I never have said it is a bad product, only that it is a memory hog and dangerours! Sorry for the spelling but a bad night! Ha Ha! Its great but I have learned my lesson and all I can say is be careful of it!!!!! :>) Dave

Navid! :>) Same wavelength! hehehe

emery800,
I was just kiding around. I agree with you one hundred percent. They do make some good products and others just take up memory. I recently downloaded the Norton Personal Firewall for my system due to the fact that I was hacked over the weekend and spent 2 hours getting everything back to normal. Anyway, we're not here to talk about Norton, just wanted to clarify my statement.

PS emery800, do you have any suggestions for personal firewall software?

Depends on your application! Winproxy has worked good for small busnesses. Can't spell tonight! Ha Ha!

Just looking for a personal Firewall. I've been using Norton for a couple of days now and it appears to be very good and extreamly flexible. Just wondering about your preferences if any? I'm currently using VicomSoft Surfdoubler to share my cable connection due to the fact that it was late and I couldn't buy a second NIC at 12:30 AM.

Sorry! I haven't pursued this area! I leave it to the network administrators and I just live with what they provide. There are are so many things growing so fast I can't keeep up with it all. That would be a great question at this site! You would get I am sure a lot of good thoughts. Everything is forcing us to specialize and I am not trying to surcumb but it is becoming more difficult each day! :>)

Instead of discussion about Norton and personal issues, send comments which can help danM only(if you know the answer). You can always E-mail each other. (I guess)
Sorry for interrupting your chat...
Nina.....

just leave that error ,I think it won't cause any problem for u in the future.

but if still u want to do so , run regedit and open \HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ all extension are defined there ,find those ext and remove them .

You were right on Godness! Sorry and Thanks! :>)

An interseting discussion.guys ---

To navid --

What I mean by "coming back" is that after I get Norton Utilities to "repair" the situation (presumably by removing from where-ever the 3 spurious extensions), then sometime later, when I run NU again, the same message as detailed in the original question is again there.

So something in my system must be re-generating the three "extensions" somewhere !

dan

danM: dear DanM... If you are not facing any trubles, then let Norton util. indicate the problem. As we said before, Norton can have wrong. Sometimes it faces problems which are not real.
Any system files which look wrong will make it to indicate wrong diagnoses.
I wish you luck in the future. If you noticed any problems or anything else, let us know and we will help you.
If these file extentions do not exist on windows registry, they do not exit. (folder options , filetype as I asked you before to check)
Take my advice and do not take Noton util. as your reference.
Although Norton is an excellent soft ware, do not trust its diagnoses 100%. lol
Wish you all luck pal DanM... thanks
Navid.........

IMHO, I would uninstall Norton's and join the real world. This is not to you but to the Norton products. He never did get along with Bill Gates! :>)

Is Norton simply objecting to the four character extension? That was my first thought, but surely they can't be the only four character extensions on the system - I have 1769 on mine!

If you look at the file extensions they are kind of wierd! Either Norton has not included them as acceptable in his software or the latest update has not been done to this Norton product to add them if Norton indeed has added them! It is trying to inform the user that a virus may be present. IMHO. Dave

Iaccept the various comments above - but being a perfectionist I don't like seeing anything about which I don't have a valid explanation.
I have looked at HKEY/CLASSES/ROOT
but do not find any of the three mystery extensions there !
They are thus not in residence at present, but from past experience the N.U. message about the mystery three will be back in a few days.  The trick will be to find what in thise days is the cause !

Dan.

danM: Open "start" , "findfile" and type *.klmx or *.f100 or *.p950 on file find. See if you find any files with these strange extentions on your hard disk.

Not a trace of any of the three via
start/find/files.

But on past history they will be back

I'll leave this question open for a few more days, and keep checking as advised.

dan.

I ran NU "WinDoctor" this morning and,sure enough, the 3 mystery file extensions were back, again flagged as "invalid file extensions"

A check in HKEY/CLASSES/ROOT showed all three present, so I deleted them from
H/C/R.   So "something" on my system is putting them back every time either NU, or I manually, removes them.

I'll live with this if there are no solutions soon.  Is there no way to use my system to tell me what puts these 3 extensions in the registry ?????

Dan.

Dan: It could be Norton util. (win doctor) which resister the extentions when you run it. you need to clean Norton registry too in that case.
Good idea to leave the question open. You might find new answers.
Good luck my friend.......
Navid....

Then how do I clean the Norton Registry - I did not know that Norton had any sort of registry -- where is it to be found please ?

Dan.

danM,
  I too run Norton Utilities and I run into the same thing.  I have since set mine to ignore the problem because I too couldn't figure out how to rid myself of those extensions.  Sorry I couldn't help but at least you now know your not the only one. :-)  
                Nailer

How do you set NU to "ignore" our problem please ?

When it is finished finding problems, on the lower half of the screen(where the individual problems are) right click and choose "ignore" its as easy as that.

Many thanks.    D.

Good luck to you danM'
nailer: Thank you for the feedback.

I'll be here anytime I can help.  

I run N.U. to remove invalid active x entries, but everytime i open a particular program (AOL 7.0, in my case) it puts those invalid active X's right back on.... Until i remove them again with N.U.  Which i do regularly, now, because it seems to make a difference in how well my system operates.  But i am not tech wise, am novice, and do not know of a better solution.

Dan M:Ghena2, have you made any progress with your problem?
I too have lived with these effects for a long time , they seem to do no harm, but niggle me!. The extensions always appear after a restart in my case. (Ghena2, I don't have AOL)
I suppose we could do a selective start with msconfig and see if that sheds  a light.
A google search on klmx produces a german note , anyone translate for us?

Thanks


Peter B
uk

W98SE

I guess I would ask are they still having the problem as it was submitted back in 2000? I will bet if/once they removed Nortons they didn't have a problem! :>) Dave