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by purfect3

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When Win2000 workgroup server boots - early in the boot cycle a box says "failed to login to open registry handle in API Poll" What is the best way to find out whats going on & removing this problem from happening at boot. After ckicking OK the bootcycle continues and the screen strangly flashes a couple of different colors, then all is well. Again - what's happening & how do I fix it? A couple of people say - don't worry about it - it's nothin. Are they correct?

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by gigelul

Hi,
You can give us more details? Check in event viewer for some events regarding to this issue.

by ann777

It sounds as if Java, Perl, C++, Visual Basic or some other programming language was installed and API setup on this computer and that it was not entirely removed.

Basically the error is telling you it cannot find what it needs to open the API Poll and you click on OK which tells the computer that you don't care. It is nothing and can be ignored.

The only fix would be to search the registry for "Api poll" or other text and see if you can find anything ; my search for api poll on a win2000 box did not turn up anything (but I'm not getting that warning either). Backup anything you do find in the registry before making changes and test after rebooting. Another alternative would be to format the hdd and start over with it.

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