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Bill Eversole
Hello,
I've been working on a Dell computer for several days. Initially the
computer had a spyware infection. While cleaning it up I got a message
telling me some windows files had been changed and i needed to insert
the Windows XP CD to restore them.
Soon aftewards I got a message on reboot saying Windows had recovered
from a corrupt registry. I was going to do a SFC /scannow, but at some
point I was no longer able to reboot.
I did a repair install at the 2nd prompt. Later when reinstalling SP2,
the installation failed somewhere, and Windows automatically removed a
portion of SP2. This condition was totally unstable.
Next, I did a quick reformat and fresh install. Everything seemed
better until the old message came back, "Windows recovered from a
corrupt registry..." on a reboot after installing SP2 or one of the
other critical updates. Soon I was no longer able to log on to Windows
at all...no user names appeared in the logon screen...hit CTRL + ALT +
DEL twice and the old Windows 2000 sytle logon box appeared, but
Windows refused to let me logon under Administrator or the user name I
set up with blank passwords.
I ran the Maxtor Diagnostics test from floppy, and it found no problems
with the hard drive. I ran Windows Memory Diagnostics all night, but
it found no errors.
Right now I am doing a complete reformat and reinstall and hoping for
the best.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Bill
I've been working on a Dell computer for several days. Initially the
computer had a spyware infection. While cleaning it up I got a message
telling me some windows files had been changed and i needed to insert
the Windows XP CD to restore them.
Soon aftewards I got a message on reboot saying Windows had recovered
from a corrupt registry. I was going to do a SFC /scannow, but at some
point I was no longer able to reboot.
I did a repair install at the 2nd prompt. Later when reinstalling SP2,
the installation failed somewhere, and Windows automatically removed a
portion of SP2. This condition was totally unstable.
Next, I did a quick reformat and fresh install. Everything seemed
better until the old message came back, "Windows recovered from a
corrupt registry..." on a reboot after installing SP2 or one of the
other critical updates. Soon I was no longer able to log on to Windows
at all...no user names appeared in the logon screen...hit CTRL + ALT +
DEL twice and the old Windows 2000 sytle logon box appeared, but
Windows refused to let me logon under Administrator or the user name I
set up with blank passwords.
I ran the Maxtor Diagnostics test from floppy, and it found no problems
with the hard drive. I ran Windows Memory Diagnostics all night, but
it found no errors.
Right now I am doing a complete reformat and reinstall and hoping for
the best.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Bill