A "System File Checker" question ...

[Bert Hyman]

If I run SFC and it wants to reload a DLL or OCX, it asks for my
original Windows installation CD.

My CD is for XP Pro SP1, but I'm running SP2 plus a boatload of patches.
I don't have an SP2 installation CD.

What happens if it loads an old version of some DLL off the installation
CD? Would Windows Update catch it and re-apply some patch, or would the
old one just lurk in there forever, or until it just happens to be
replaced again by some later update?

 

[TaurArian [MS-MVP]]

Slipstream the SP2 patch with your original XP Pro SP1 disk.

Autostreamer
http://www.wbeta.com/comments.php?shownews=1063&catid=2
Instructions:
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html

Create a Slip Stream version of Windows XP
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/slipstream.htm

http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=248
Creating a bootable Windows XP

http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49
Universal Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide

Service Pack 2 (SP2)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&displaylang=en

 

[Bert Hyman]

In news:[email protected] "TaurArian [MS-MVP]"

Slipstream the SP2 patch with your original XP Pro SP1 disk.

Thanks; that will come in quite handy if (when!) I need to re-install
Windoze.

In the mean time, I also found an MS KB article on pointing SFC at
<windows>\ServicePackFiles as the source for reference copies of the
system files which might be handy too.