More Win7 problems

[fredblow]

Firt, the good news - I eventually found a solution (of sorts) to my "Retrospect is Locked" problem.

 

After disabling User Account Control, I did manage to duplicate one of my partitions. However, Retrospect is taking *ages* to start.

 

I just set out to time the startup.

 

It took more then two minutes for the main window to appear after I clicked the Retrospect icon. The windows showed no "locked" icon, but falsely claimed to be "ready" when the only button that would response to a mouse click was the little ? for help.

 

I waited to see the option screen to offer me the choices of backup/duplicate/etc. After more than *15 minutes* I gave up.

 

Checking with Process explorer, I could see that basically *nothing* was happening. There were no other programs hogging the memory - most of the time Sytem Idle was logged at 99% - 100%.

 

I have 2 GB Ram, and a 2.67 GB Intel Core2 Duo chip.

 

By comparison, running in Win XP (my system is set up to dual boot), it takes less than 10 seconds before I can see the option screen.

 

Can anyone suggest what might be the cause and the cure for my present lack of speed?

[fredblow]

 

I just tried to run Retrospect 7.7 again (unsuccessfully).

 

Looking at the applications log I found an error message which contained these details:

 

Log Name: Application

Source: SideBySide

Date: 11/06/2010 1:36:02 PM

Event ID: 35

Task Category: None

Level: Error

Keywords: Classic

User: N/A

Computer: xxxxxxx

Description:

Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files\Retrospect\Retrospect 7.7\retroex2k7.exe".Error in manifest or policy file "C:\Program Files\Retrospect\Retrospect 7.7\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.MANIFEST" on line 4. Component identity found in manifest does not match the identity of the component requested. Reference is Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="amd64",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.4053". Definition is Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.4053". Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.

Event Xml:

35

2

0

0x80000000000000

1432

Application

xxxxxxx

Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="amd64",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.4053"

Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.4053"

C:\Program Files\Retrospect\Retrospect 7.7\retroex2k7.exe

C:\Program Files\Retrospect\Retrospect 7.7\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.MANIFEST

4

 

 

Assuming that this offers some clue to my problems - what does it all mean, and what action should I take in response?