Problems on XP Pro after I installed IE7?

[Guest]

I am getting a message that c:\$Mft is corrupt and I should run CHKdsk.
Concurrently with this happening CHKdsk runs every time at start-up. It says
it is checking c: , NTFS, volume IBM_Preload. It runs through and when
done flashes the info on the screen but that's gone so fast you can't see it.

I've tried to run Chkdsk on the corrupt file but it doesn't work or maybe
I'm not doing it right.

I am also getting a message that I have no paging file. I have followed the
instructions several times on setting this in System Properties advanced tab
- but it doesn't seem to take.

Neither of these things seems to be affecting how the computer runs - so far
at least. Except for the error messages keep popping up.

Both of these problems seem to have come up after I installed IE7 - or maybe
that's a coincidence.

 

[Guest]

having exactly the same symtoms... corrupt MFT, chkdsk runs at every
startup, no pagefile, then reset pagefile size requiring reboot, chkdsk
reruns.... and the loop continues! I have noticed a marked decrease in
performance. After opening Task Mgr, I do see pagefile activity however...
incidentally, Maggie, all this started after I too installed IE 7
yesterday... any solutions yet? I wonder if a System Restore would fix?

 

[Guest]

I am also getting the same problem after installing IE7 via Windows Update.
Though everything seems to be working as before, I keep getting the error
popup, and chkdsk is being run automatically whenever I power up the system.

Searched on google and seems to be no fix available as yet for this.

 

[Philip Andrews]

I had problems with the IE7 upgrade too, so I removed it - and everything
went straight back to normal. I assumed that the troubles had been part of
'The Continuing Wonder of Windows'.

Good luck -

Philip