Mprexe not responding?!?!? 1

[nigelj]

Guys, I get this message on my Win95 workstations on an NT4 server network and there is no specific situation when it happens - it happens when it wants to! <br>
Has anyone else come across this one and how do you get round it. It won't let users log on. The machine just stops and after I press Ctrl-Alt-Del I find in the Task manager that this "Mrpexe" file is "not responding". Some suggested that it was to do with Active destop but I don't have it installed.<br>
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HEEEELP...! Please!

 

[Zelandakh]

MPREXE program looks at the users password file (check &lt;username&gt;.pwl in c:\windows.<br>
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Get into windows (use safe mode if you can't go in normally) and delete the relevant password list. Restart to recreate the file.<br>
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It happens occasionally when the pwl file gets corrupt or is not accessed correctly.<br>

 

[nigelj]

It is still happening! I've deleted them and I though it had worked. Today I tried login in and it happened again. I finally logged in somehow and when I checked for any .pwl files there wan't any!?!???<br>
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Any other suggestions by any chance please!?????<br>

 

[chad42]

I don't have an advanced solution for you, but when I used to get a persistent mprexe error, I would reimage the PC. I'm sure there's a better solution...I'd love to hear it too!

 

[oneworld]

In Technet there is an article about MPREXE. The Q number is Q178084.<br>
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Some points as to the cause are as follows. Please refer to that article because I am unable to post the whole thing here.<br>
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CAUSE<br>
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This behavior can occur for any of the following reasons:<br>
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- Your password list (.pwl) file is damaged.<br>
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- A service or application loading during the startup process is conflicting<br>
with another service or application.<br>
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- There is a hardware conflict on your computer.<br>
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- A hardware driver on your computer is missing or damaged.<br>

 

[neilsonnn]

I've come across that problem too. Haven't been able to fix it but I did get around it by just simply adding into autoexec.bat a line - del c:\windows\*.pwl<br>
This way you will never get the mprexe problem again. Kind of ugly but it works!!

 

[nigelj]

I think I might have to do just that. But I have also tried deleting some .PCB files from c:\windows and it seems to help. Any comments?

 

[neilsonnn]

Not sure what .PCB files do but if this seems to help you, please respond back in this forum and let me know. Maybe that will help me too.

 

[nigelj]

I think it helps....because even if manage to log in after the MPREXE error I would find no .PWL files. When I delete the .PCB files which you will probably see have the usernames in the filename - it seem better after that...