I tried to open zone alarm and AIM and got a pop up saying that C:/Program Files is corrupt. What? Then I got a yellow pop up in the lower right of my toolbar saying that its corupt and to run a chkdsk...Would it fix this? If not what? Why did this happen?
View 3 RepliesI turned on my computer and windows didn't start up. It didn't even go into post or anything. What came up was that there was a corrupted file. winntsystem32 configsystem. I know this means that that file is missing but I cannot fix it because I don't have my Windows XP CD nor do I have a Startup Disk so I could recover the register. What I have done was, got a BART CD and booted from it and windows loaded but I don't know how to fix or find the corrupted file.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy computer was OK since I shut it off last night. I don't know if I did something wrong to it. This morning, at the logon menu I was surprised~ There are many message boxes appeared saying that Program files is corrupted and bla bla bla~ If my dad knows this, I'll get grounded. The next thing I realised is, there are these start bar messages telling me " The file or directory H:Program Files is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility" and H is where my program files folder is because I renamed it from C to H.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhenever I startup my computer C:Program Files opens on its own. I've seen other posts where others have a similar situation with the My Documents folder opening. I have tried the methods for correcting that issue but nothing has worked so far.
View 3 Replies View RelatedOn startup a box pops up and says that lass.exe has terminated unexpectedly and the system will be restarted in 60 seconds.It does this in normal mode and safe mode.I don't think there is any antivirus on the machine, as a brillant student uninstalled it because it was expired and she needed space for mp3s. Not good I know.This is a Dell Dimension 4500 with 128 meg of ram and WinXP home.
I have an issue with my new clean install on XP. Every time I boot, C:Program Files keps opening. Here is the stuff I have tried so far. I looked in msconfig, the startup folder and in Startup on my programs list and it doesn't show up in any of these places. It isn't a new program, so it's not because I installed it recently. Here is HiJack This log for reference. I dont have clue what's to look in this. But may be it will help you. Similarly I have copy-pasted contents from autoexec.bat,win.ini and sys.ini for debugging. You may notice that there is TaskMgr link in startup. But its just one of my app I need on startup in my taskbar. It startup as minimized and it has setting "Hide on Minimized" checked in TaskManager. So It remains in taskbar always.
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 8:44:33 PM, on 10/14/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16544)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
D:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
D:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
D:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe...............
I have a Dell Dimension C521, running windows xp media center edition, for the last two days when I start it up, I have a box on my desktop with a program path C:ProgramFilesDell with nothing in the box. How can I get rid of this error on my desktop??? I can click on the red X and it will go away, until I start it up again.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn the process of clicking a link in an email a message pops upfrom IE 6 because of a failure and has to close. I then went to eventviewer and the culprit turned out to be ( Faultrep.dll ) from here Itried to register the .ddl ( random trouble shooting, thinking the .dllwas bad ) and this message came up; "Faultrep.dll was loaded butthe .dll RegisterServer entry point was not found. The file cannot be located". Need some guidance here because the problem is chronic
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy computer won't let me use the system restore function.It won't let me run or install programs.And if I try to a small black window pops up for a second than goes away.If I connect my computer to the internet a message pops up two minutes at the most later saying that windows has suffered a huge error or something and needs to shut down.And in the message a counter goes down from forty second than my computer restarts.That only happens if the internet is connected.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhen shutting down my computer, I get a box that pops up and says program not responding C:documents/settings (that's the most I can see.. I can't see the whole path name). When I click on the end now, the error goes away and the computer shuts down properly. I looked in the task manager to see if anything was running and I didn't see anything and all programs look to be shut down before I tried to shut the computer down. I have Windows XP and I don't understand why something in C:documents/setting would be doing this.
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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 10:53:33 PM, on 8/16/2005
Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
Just reformatted my system and every game that i download ...when i open it it says file corrupted ....possible file transfer error.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedWindows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM
I found this soultion online and followed it to the marked point:
Is there any way (short of sending to a pro) to recover files from a corrupted floopy? I have some very sensitive info on it that I want to recover.
View 1 Replies View Relatedmy internet went down soon before this happened, im not sure if this has anything at all to do with this problem, though. our contract with SBC was over so we decided to cancel and sign back up to get 12.99 a month...my friend gave me a zip with these MSN messanger things in it, its just supposed to be these cool random stuff, nothing important i tihnk. a day after our internet service was gone, i tried to extract it, and during the extraction process, some of the files were reported as corrupted, but i let it conitinue to run, and then my computer just restarted on me and now im having all these problems
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI think I have a corrupted OS in my hands. My computer worked fine yesterday. This morning I added an extended SATA hard drive. When it booted, Windows XP (Pro SP2) startup seemed unusually slow. After I used the hard drive manufacturer's CD to partition the HD and rebooting, I could not get on any of the limited XP accounts because it required a password when it should not have. I am posting this from Firefox, which with a number of other programs unrelated to Microsoft seem to work for the moment. I think I'm missing system files or they are corrupt. I've recently had a Vundo infection which I did clean up, but now I can't even open Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.This would be extremely horrifying had I not had past computer problems of equal horror. I beseech all you benevolent souls reading this to provide some suggestions. Is there anything I could do aside from reinstalling XP?
View 7 Replies View RelatedSince January my computer started getting error messages about corrupted files, corrupted registry, and drivers stopped working. I tried different things and ended up formatting my hard drive and reinstalling Windows. Things were fine for a while, but after a week I started getting messages about corrupt files again, having issues with drivers, and now Windows won't shut down properly. Also, the computer powers off of its own accord sometimes. I'm using Windows XP Home Edition SP3. I haven't made any hardware updates recently.
Some of the error messages I've been receiving are. For Bluesoleil (which I have uninstalled and reinstalled) it says that the file is corrupt and to try an anti-virus scan (I tried to copy the message, but the window went off on its own). AVG anti-virus keeps on saying there are no active components, or replacing all the commands with things beginning with @. The drivers for my Logitech Fusion webcam stopped working, but I've reinstalled them, and they work, for now. The Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer kept on corrupting. I've also had the message 'Windows - Registry Recovery One of the files containing the system's Registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternative copy.
what I do regularly is simple backups of these files to external hard drive and DVD+RW's every x months. My point is that I don't keep different series of backups; I just keep overwriting my external drive and DVD's with the current backup, just to have the security of having a double of my data in a different geographic location in case of fire, flood, theft, etc. (knock on wood)
It occurs to me, however, that this system may not be entirely secure. What happens if, between the last backup and the current one, files on my system are modified in a way I didn't want? Or if someone else uses my computer and deletes files? Or if a file were accidentaly deleted, or even corrupted? In any of these cases, when I'd go do a backup, I'd be backing up a snapshot of My Documents that I don't quite want, because, unbeknownst to me, some of the files are corrupted or deleted, and it's not like I can go back in time and pull out a previous backup from (say) 2002 to recover a lost or damaged file. (The reason I won't keep previous backups is because I don't want to end up with an ever-expanding collection of dozens, and then hundreds of disks to keep in storage somewhere ... and even if I did, how would I know that the oldest DVD's in that pile weren't corroding and becoming unreadable over time...)
So what I want is this: a backup program, or separate application I'd run before the backup, which, when I come to do a backup, remembers the files from the last backup, and somehow compares the last backup to my current system (i.e. compares the previously backed-up files to what I'm about to backup), and tells me, before I proceed to overwrite the last backup with the current one, what has changed, in terms of which files are new since last time (obviously there will be new ones ... pictures, mp3's, docs), which ones are no longer there or corrupted (at which point I can make sure that the absent ones have intentionally been deleted since the last backup, and, if not, I can pull them back out of the previous backup and put them back on my system), before proceeding with the overwriting backup.
I looked at the different typical options, like incremental and differential backup, but they all involve constantly adding the new or modified files to an older initial backup, which always increases the number of discs you end up with. Also, those options will always keep the initial full backup on an old disc that's busy rotting away in the humidity. The way I'm talking about makes you always refresh your backup medium, and if your discs are no longer good, then you just replace them. In short, you would always have a fresh, full backup, and are sure that you're not copying corrupted files or that you're missing any, never to retrieve them again, because it tells you what the problems are before you proceed.
You see, normally, an incremental backup would be what I need, because it keeps an original version of the file, and then it keeps all incremental changes to that file over time, such as modifications. The problem with the incremental backup, however, is the principle that you're always needing more and more space to keep updating the original backup. If I'm backup up to DVD's, I don't want to have a new disc every time I incrementally backup my files. Also, how do you know that the original (1st) base backup, made years ago, doesn't now contain files that have become corrupted? Or the same for some of the earlier increments? Furthermore, there's the problem where, if you need to retrieve a file, you'd have to go back to the beginning, retrieve the original version, and then retrieve all the modifications across all the increments to get back to the version you want to get.
The way I'm talking about would be a rewrite your backup onto the medium (external drive, DVD's, solid state, whatever) every time you backup. That way, you always have a "fresh" set, and are not relying on an original base backup from 14 years ago + monthly increments, and don't have to worry about the original base backup itself having become corrupt after all these years.
Also, an incremental backup won't tell you what's missing or what's corrupt. Let's say you have your My Pictures. One of the folders is pictures from a Florida trip 5 years ago, and in it is a picture of when you had just caught a shark while fishing. That's a pretty important picture, and you want to keep it for all time. Well, meanwhile, you go on 20 more trips since that time, with 20 more folders full of pictures. 5 years later, you don't notice it, because you don't review old pictures very often, but that shark picture has become corrupt and irretrievable in your computer. Or, while viewing the pics from that trip one day, you accidentally delete it and don't notice. Or your friend or family member (for instance, a child) goes through your photos and starts deleting pictures. Or what if they open the picture in MS Paint and vandalise it by drawing a male member on your forehead. Now you come to do your backup of your whole My Pictures. If you simply overwrite the last backup with the current one, you're replacing a good copy of the shark picture with (potentially) a bad one ... or if it's been deleted, you're replacing the folder that had that picture with a folder that's missing it, and you'll never retrieve it again. If, on the other hand, you do incremental backups, then your picture is probably in the original base backup from 5 years ago, or else it's in one of the increments from 5 years ago, but who knows what the state is of the original base backup? Those original discs might be unreadable by now, and then there's the whole hassle of going up through the chain to get the pic. Not to mention that under this scenario, you have to notice yourself that a file is missing, and then take steps to retrieve it, as opposed to an application simply scanning and telling you so whenever you want.
Instead, there MUST be a way to do the full backup each time you back up (so you only have 1 set of discs to go into to find your files, and so that it's always relatively new, and not a rotten, corroded set of DVD's from 14 years ago), and that, before it actually does the backup, it tells you first what's missing, modified, added, corrupt between what you had the last time in your backup, and what you're about to overwrite it with now in your current backup.
I understand that the difficulty in indentifying corrupt files of any kind is that there are many different file types, and no program is so complete as to do that scan. But I guess I'm essentially worried about pictures, since mp3's and documents are less of a problem for me.
So really all I need is any application (not necessarily the backup program) to scan particular folders on my drive (only those I want to back up ... essentially My Documents, and not the whole drive) to check only 3 things:
1) which files have been modified (regular Windows xp search can do this if you advanced search for "files modified between ____ and _____", the 2 given dates being, say, the date of my last backup and the date of the current one);
2) which files are missing since the last backup (all this would involve is checking the files against a list ... seems simple ... and manually looking in Recycle Bin is obviously not enough because you may have emptied the Recycle Bin since last time); and
3) which files are corrupted
With the knowledge of these 3 things, I can take action to replace lost or corrupted files by taking them back out of my last backup. Then, I can safely proceed with the current backup.
I'm running XP MCE 2005.