Check If My Winis Corrupt
Aug 23, 2007
I was smart enough to execute a file i THOUGHT was a .jpg, but it was in fact a shortcut (lnk).The file executed a large amount of commands in dos, and it took me about 1.5 seconds to close the program. I later found out that this "virus" was designed to delete system files from my system32-folder I don't know how much damage the execution did to my computer, but here's my question Is it possible to check if my version of WinXP is still "intact" or corrupt, if any important files really were deleted (without in fact rebooting)? I just want to find out if it is safe to reboot, so I don't need to backup my files and reinstall. I think win982000 had some kind of Systemcheck-tool, but I haven't heard of such a tool in WinXP
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Sep 24, 2006
I have never had a sound problem on my computer until very recently. I can restore it back and the sound is restored. However, every morning, the sound is "gone". I then restore it back to Sept. 14, and the sound returns. I use the "automatic update" feature. Last night after I restored back to 9/14, I changed the option to "notify me of updates". So far, this morning, I still have sound.
Is it possible that one of the automatic updates is causing this problem. Or do you have any suggestions as to what may be causing it. By sound, I am just taking about the sound you hear when you reboot or play online games not the cd room
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Dec 2, 2004
Gateway Solo 600 with 1GB memory and a 60GB drive with 15GB free space. Running WinXP at SP1, Norton AV 2003 but has just expired (2005 ready to install but don't want to compound things just jet), ZoneAlarm. The order of events, although it might not all be related:
Firewire disk drive it reported a handful of files that were not backed up due to a CRC error. I checked the Event Viewer and sure enough it had logged several "Bad Block" on hard disk errors. Ran Scandisk which reported that it couldn't fix. Booted from a Floppy and ran GWSCAN. Quick Test - No Errors Extended Test - Error 0223, Ran Scandisk, It reported some index entries removed due to errors. Deleted affected files and restored from good sources.System was slow to startup.Somewhat slow getting to the desktop Really slow loading the "Post Desktop" programs such as the network adapter icons, Volume Systray Control, Mouse Systray Control, Norton Systray icon Identify all the bad areas and their cause restore full functionality.
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Jul 7, 2009
My system is periodically every few seconds freezing briefly for a split of a second.
The effect is most noteable when watching TV, where I experience constant stuttering and sound glitches (muting or squeaking).
I have already run rootkit checks, chkdsk, and killed all expendable processes using Process Explorer, disconnected all USB devices except mouse and keyboard, but the effect remains. One observation I have made in Process Explorer is an apparent correspondence between the freezes and the Idle process periodically briefly consuming 100% of CPU power. There are no discs in the optical drives, and autoplay is disabled for all drives. The system is not using a swap file. Windows update is set to manual. Windows firewall is turned off (I am behind a Fritz DSL router with built-in firewall
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Jan 14, 2009
I am running Windows XP Homedition. I have two drives inside, the regular C: drive and I have a Slave drive F: with all my photos and music and documents. The problem I'm having is that everytime I restart or reboot my system it say it needs to check F: drive for consistency. It haven't been doing that until now. Then once it goes through that the system comes up. I try to click on an icon like my internet or registry program, nothing comes up, its like a read only file or something. Its not executing the program. THEN all of a sudden I get a blue screen. It says this::"Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in the stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacture for driver updates. try changing video adapters. "Check with your hardware vendor for aany BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use SAFE mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advance SStartup options, and then select Safe Mode."
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Aug 12, 2008
Could anyone explain to me the difference between doing an error check at boot up and doing a scannow check.
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Feb 5, 2003
when i run chdisk for errors in win 2000 by right clicking the hard drive icon and then clicking properties of c: harddrive, then tools tab, then click the check now button, and in the check disk options ticking "automatically fix file system errors" and clicking ok I get this message "The disk check could not be performed because exclusive access to the drive could not be obtained. Do you want to schedule the disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer."If i chose yes to that above it performs the diskcheck at reboot and when windows loads i go back to the checkdisk and i get the same problem again.
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Aug 8, 2007
im running a dell dimension 4600 and just today there is no sound from my speakers. I tried re-installing my driver, checked to see if it's muted, checked BIOS. It was working yesterday...Can anyone tell me how to check my Sound Playback device and playback programs? I'm using Media Player and iTunes I tried other speakers and there is still no sound Also, forgot to mention that my speaker makes a static/fuzzy noise when i turn up.
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Feb 28, 2008
WinExplorer -> right click C: -> go to properties -> go to tools click error check. Will get message that error check will start at the next start up. Problem. Error check runs fine, and makes 5 checks. At the 5th check at about 98% you better be there and when it hits 100% be a quick reader so you can see if there are any bad clusters. The screen stays there about 3 seconds and then disappears. If you have bad clusters the HD might be going bad. Question. How can I make the Error Check summary screen stay put while I read it or how can I make it "log" someplace where I can go and read it at my leisure?
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Mar 12, 2005
How can I tell whether my motherboard has USB 1 or USB 2.0?If the motherboard can only support USB 1.1, how can I have it to support USB 2.0? Do I need to update or install anything?
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Aug 25, 2005
I would like to run disk check but each time I schedule it and reboot, the message that I see upon reboot is that disk check has been cancelled. How can I get it to run?
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Oct 20, 2005
This is from my own computer ,it seems to have got slower and slower in starting up.
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Jun 17, 2006
I have Windows XP Pro and trying to install Max Payne but it says I do not have enough system memory.how do i check system memory?
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Aug 12, 2002
Use this if you just want to display your IP address and not the extra information (default gateway / subnet mask)Simply copy and paste the following into notepad@echo.@ipconfig | find "IP Address"@echo.@pauseAnd save as IP.BAT (save to your windows dir if you want to be able to access it anywhere)Now when you type IP you will see:---------------------------IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : x.x.x.xPress any key to continue . . .---------------------------(information about the code: @echo. produces a blank line, @ipconfig | find "IP Address" causes the output of ipconfig to be piped to the find command, which looks for the line containing "IP Address", find then outputs your IP address, @pause causes the terminal to wait for user input before continuing. The @ before each command tells the terminal not to echo the command being typed.)
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Apr 25, 2008
i need to check my IP from a command line behind a router. I know there are several ways to gain your IP from online but in this situation it realy needs to be only from command line. anyone know any .exe's or commands that would allow this
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Jul 20, 2005
In my computer I’ve two partitions, when I try to move one big file of 1GB to other partition it gives me this error “Cycle Redundancy Check�. But I can play this video file very well. But I’m unable to move or copy to another partition or DVD.Is there a way I can still save this file, some how? I know i shuld replace with new harddrive, but right now i want to save this file.
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Dec 5, 2008
I want to download a Driver, and need to select one:
1. Download Nokia USB Driver v3.7.0(for 32-bit versions of Windows)
2. Download Nokia USB Driver v3.7.0(for 64-bit versions of Windows)
How do I check for 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows XP Prof?
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Aug 26, 2006
i've been having slow computer problems. lots of generic host errors and some programs that would hang and freeze the computer. i went to the Security area of this site for help. i had no major problems just a lot of startup programs i didn't need.i downloaded two programs to help me with that. then i decided to run defrag. that froze at 3% done. i also tried check disk, i got the screen to restart the computer. it was running fine. i had lots of bad sector stuff in stage 4. i went to bed at 24% next morning it still was at 24%. we left it on and it still would not move. so we restarted. i went and did a few more things, deleting things i no longer wanted and so on. last night i tried check disk again and i went to bed at 20% (tired). this morning there were no bad sector items, but it was still at 20%. i gave it a bit longer, but still nothing.
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Jun 5, 2008
I am running windows XP home edition, file system FAT 32. Whenever I start my computer the disc check always wants to run on one or more of my drives. The checking will always stall at 0 percent and not check the drive. How can I get it to work? If I skip the disc check my computer will start up.
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Aug 2, 2010
I have installed Office 2007 (home and product keyed and registered) on my HP Notebook. Since doing so I have tried all manner of ways to restore Spell Check on IE and thence OE. I have downloaded ieSpell, with no result. I have tried to get them to give me some help, but no reply! Please help me to get around this annoying problem, as I need something to help my spelling!
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Oct 2, 2006
Is there a way to run a check disk if xp will not work? I had a system that started to give me strange error messages. I mean they were very odd. The last error that came up, said that I did not have a valid copy of xp and would not let me login to the PC. I even tried to login in safe mode, but that did not work. How would I go about fixing this?
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Jan 14, 2005
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 2:30:42 PM, on 01/14/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
Running processes:
C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32spoolsv.exe............
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Dec 14, 2004
Whenever I try to use certain programs I get a Bad Image error message. Something like, 'The application or DLL C:Programs FilesACD SystemsBCGCBPRO64.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.' The first time I got it, I ran a Google search on it and it told me to insert my Windows XP disk and type scannow into Run. This worked the first time, but now a get this error message popping up on several other programs and the scannow thing doesn't work.
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Sep 11, 2007
every 2 minutes i have the message on my desktop "windows security potential spyware operation . your computer is making unauthorized copies of your system and internet files . run full scan now to pervent any unathorised access to your files click here to download spyware remover..."
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 5:38:16 PM, on 9/11/2007
Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe........
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Jan 9, 2005
Is there a fast and easy way to check to see if your drivers are updated and then an easy way to download them?
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Mar 31, 2005
I have some questions about using checkdisk for xp. How often should you use checkdisk? What kind of errors does it really fix? Also, should you check " automatically fix file system errors" or " scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" or both? Any help would be gladly appreciated!
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Mar 11, 2005
After a recent "Browser hijack" I cannot defrage my hardrive when I do a window appears saying it cannot defrge this volume as Chkdsk is sheduled to run!I have checked Sheduled tasks" and have stopped it from running I have no Idea what else to to.When I start my pc Checkdisk runs gets as far as stage two and stops with a message "checkdisk has stopped due to an unspecific error" when I run checkdisk in cmd window it will scan normaly in read only but if i run it with fix enabled it says "cannot lock current drive" and then offers me the option to run at system start up.
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Aug 26, 2005
Iv started getting strange errors on the computer like: "memory cannot be read/written" in different programs and different situations. I have run memtest86 and there doesn't seem to be a problem with the RAM. I have run a diagnostic from my harddisk maker and it checks out fine. I am suspicious of the hdd because of the following. When i run chkdsk it usually says: Errors found chkdsk cannot continue in read-only mode. I ran a boot-time check, with /r, but still when i boot to windows i get errors in the volume. This does not happen to my 2 non-primary hdds.
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Feb 2, 2006
Out of the blue I thought it would be a good time to run Scandisk or Checkdisc. I did the usual thing and went to C properties and checked the two options where it said to have CHKDSK run on the next reboot. So after I rebooted I got a brief message that CHKDSK wouldn't run.Then I tried running CHKDSK in command prompt in Windows and it ran fine and reported some problems then it said to run CHKDSK /f and I did but came up with something about the volume is locked and all.So obviously I've got some file problems but what should I do. Run Recovery Console and run CHKDSK in there?
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May 20, 2005
I have Win 2000 pro service pack 4. Running on a Sony Viao laptop. Something is screwed up on my C disc; trying to run checkdisk utility. Will only run in "read only" mode. Says I need to set "F" parameter to get out of readonly.How do I set "F" parameter? NOTE: I've tried running chkdsk from the RUN command in windows, also from the command prompt in safe mode. Same message each time.
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Mar 11, 2010
Check Disk scans come up OK, I've independently tested the Secondary drive with other drive utilities and it comes up fine. I'd like to unselect CHKDSK at startup. I was thinking it might be in the BOOT.INI file, but am not at home to look.
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