Tool to verify/validate XP files?

[DustyB]

G'day all;

I seem to recollect some time back that someone had mentioned a tool, from
MS (?), that can be used to verify your system files & repair your registry.
But I've gone through my usually reliable collection of notes and can't seem
to find squat.

Was there such a tool or was what I thought I remembered the result of an
age related mental haze...-o)!

I'm still trying to recover my system from those damnedable "1606"
errors...<big sigh!>


TIA,
Dusty
San Jose

 

[Keith Jakobs, MCP]

Hi Dusty...

Are you possibly referring to the System File Check utility (sfc.exe)? I
know it checks the integrity of the system files, and requires that you have
your original media available, but I don't recall if it also does any work
on the registry.

If that is the utility you want to use, you just need to type the following
at a command prompt:

sfc /scannow

Good Luck

Keith C. Jakobs, MCP

 

[DustyB]

Hi Dusty...

Are you possibly referring to the System File Check utility (sfc.exe)? I
know it checks the integrity of the system files, and requires that you
have
your original media available, but I don't recall if it also does any work
on the registry.

If that is the utility you want to use, you just need to type the
following
at a command prompt:

sfc /scannow

Good Luck

Thanks, Keith. Yep. I think that's it. I guess I thought it rebuilt the
registry as well.

I've been trying to "fix" my installation, but can't seem to do it...cuz my
delivery CD didn't include SP2, and I haven't yet figured out how to
successfully make a "slip-streamed" CD up to SP2.

Always one thing if not the other...<big sigh!>

Dusty

 

[MowGreen [MVP]]

Have a gander at :
Universal Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49
or
Create A Bootable/Slipstreamed Windows XP Installation CD
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstream_01.htm

nLite works well for slipstreaming.

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2005]
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[jonah]

Thanks, Keith. Yep. I think that's it. I guess I thought it rebuilt the
registry as well.

I've been trying to "fix" my installation, but can't seem to do it...cuz my
delivery CD didn't include SP2, and I haven't yet figured out how to
successfully make a "slip-streamed" CD up to SP2.

Always one thing if not the other...<big sigh!>

Dusty

http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

Slipstream step by step - so easy my boss only took 4 hours (2 on the
phone) to get through it. Mind you he has problems with e mail.



Jonah