Upon turning on the computer, we have been getting two different messages, not both at the same time. The first one was "can not find file ///cWINDOWS/System32/1KJddh8s.htm/" and the most recent "can not find file ///cWINDOWS/System32/4csuhtu0.html" What do these files do? How do we fix this?
View 2 RepliesI had and umountable boot volume blue screen come up on my dell inspirion, so I ran the windows xp cd, and used chkdsk /r. When it was running at about 70% it jumped back down to 50% and then continued to finsh the recovery, it said several problems fixed.... so i assumed it worked, but the jump back to 50 must be caused by some error. Now I can run windows, but its like the computer has amnesia. All user icons are there, but none of the set pictures for them. So i clicked on mine, the start menu is empty, and when i run files the recent files aren't saved to the start menu. Ontop of that all files I had on my desktop are gone. Mydocuments is empty all of that. When I went to look for my files, all files saved in the c: drive are still there, in fact the c: drive used disk space is exactly the same size as it was before the unmountable boot volume error. Which leads me to believe that all the files I had saved on my desktop and in mydocuments are still somewhere on the hard drive. Its like all files connected to users on the computer have dissappeared and no files can be saved to the user accounts, but the user names are still there. What happened to my computer, and how do i fix it and can i get those files back. I also tried running chkdsk again and it did the same thing around 70% and dropped back down to 50% before it continued working.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI had tried to run a friends HD as a slave drive with mine on my other machine earlier. I got it up and running & it repaired the friends drive and I was able to get some files off he wanted. After I turned it off & took his out I got an error message that some files are missing in windowssystem32configsystem on my computer that I was using with his HD. The message goes on to say to boot with the windows xp disk and try a system repair. Well, that failed also. I took it out and brought it up here and put it on with this one as the slave drive and I got into it. Is there a way I can repair those files with it running as a slave drive on this one, or do I have to just re-install windows again.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI Have propriety system (DELL) that I've been working on that was in need of a memory up grade and so forth. Was doing a little cleaning with an uninstaller software removing some Items completely on this system when by my own fault destroyed some of the system files and didn't not find out till after a reboot. I am still able to boot to Windows but the user accounts Icons are gone from the login screen. All I have is the Windows XP screen without the login accounts. Have tried Safe Mode same circumstance and Last and Known settings from the Windows Advanced Option Menu. Was needing some Ideas on how to replace the files I deleted which when I deleted them I sent them to the Recycle Bin but since I can no longer log on can't get there. I was wondering if I could run System File Checker (sfc.exe) from the Windows Advanced Option Menu Safe Mode with Command Prompt and maybe replace the system files that way ? If I can would I need to have a system disk handy? If I have too as a last resort I could run a windows system repair with the with a windows CD. I have one that I slipped streamed with sp3 since I did noticed that the operating system was basically up to date.
View 7 Replies View RelatedLately my pc has experienced lots of different problems. It all started one day when I installed a program named xfire. It was running fine with xfire until I came home from school. Heres a list of the problems:
1. live messneger has forgot my email and runs slowly when i attempt to retype it.
2.Live messneger cannot connect at all. It just comes up with this message straight away
3. The copy of windows I'm running has been classed as an illegal copy by the microsoft website (my pc has a preinstalled installation of windows which was on when it was bought from a store).
4.Many installation programs now come up with errors about missing files.
5.I can't find any viruses with avast,ad-aware or spybot.
6. I uninstalled ie 7 which somehow allowed the normal windows messenger to work without the scripts errors I got before, but now I can't reinstall ie7. The setup always comes up with a missing file error.
recently me my brother and sisters computers all got the same virus it seems and where all on one wireless net work and it started with my sisters laptop sayin the harddrives not instaled wheni start it up and nothing els and my brothers desktop kept feezzeing like my desk top did then mine stoped turning on all togther and would get to the desk top and crash and take 3-4 trys to get started then i did a destructive system recovery on my brothers comp and it is fine perfect like the day we got it then i did it to mine and it started up and worked but kept frezzing on the desk top and then now when i start it up and try to restore from last know workin configuration it says windows/system32/config/system is missing or corrupted hit r to start repair from original cd rom disks and i dont have those is there a way i could find this file and put it on a cd form one comp and fix my comp with it? or do i have to go buy a new windows and hardrive? and when i try to boot it any ways it says system not fully installed error
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently ran non-destructive system recovery In windows XP, it worked fine except now I can not locate the files that used to be in the 'owners documents' section.
View 7 Replies View Relatedwhen I went to log onto my pc, after turning on the screen, it remained blank in a stand-by sort of screen. I had left it on the previous evening while running basic Windows Disk-cleaner. So, I couldn't get the PC to respond, and rebooted it. Upon rebooting, I recieved an error message saying that the file "system32c_1252" was missing or corrupt. I tried booting off of the original system setup cd, and repairing the installation, but it didn't work and I recieved another error message stating that "system322052" was missing or corrupt. After that, I managed to get access Dos console and ran "CHKDSK" and "FIXBOOT." Fixboot completed successfully, while chkdsk first hung at 50% and then, when I tried again, completed with unfixable errors. I exited and got back to the original bootup screen, where upon I got the same message as before, only this time it informed me that my windowssystem32configsystem file was missing or corrupt. Now it seems as if there are new small changes each time I try to start up. I'm at a total loss regarding this. I have virus protection, firewall, and I hadn't been downloading or surfing any unfamiliar sites.
View 3 Replies View Relatedmy Hide protected operating system files (recommended) in folder options is missing. is there any way to fix that? with regedit, maybe? my pc has just been recovered from a virus.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI was running System Mechanic as a routine - (i.e. not a virus, or spyware problem), and Windows XP decided it wanted to do an install of some service pack automatically - which it did an auto reboot in the middle of SM running! Grrr...system froze when it came back up. I came back to just see the frozen screen and SM screen closed - and it ookedrebooted. Now when the computer is turned on in safe mode or regular, it just does a DOS listing of missing drivers - very extensive list. Got a CD hard copy of System Mechanic - but now am told if I use it to rescue the computer, it will delete my files! Yikes!My computer, Xplio, came with Windows installed. The rescue disk, if I can find it, (may be in storage) I believe also says it deletes files if used...one reason I didn't keep it out and easily found. 1. How do I save / rescue my files???? I have many years of nonprofit work on the computer I don't want to lose. 2. Can the computer be "saved"? 3. Is there a way to use someone else's Windows XP disks with their passwords (legitimate copy) on my computer to reinstall the missing drivers? OR - can all the drivers be downloaded from somewhere - ideally for free? I can prove I have/ had legitimate right to Windows XP - I noticed Microsoft charges for tech support - guess I am naive - was surprised it would charge for first call ever!
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm getting a message: autoexec.nt the system file is not suitable for running ms-dos and microsoft windows applications.choose close to terminate the application. seems I'm missing these files:
config.nt
autoexec.nt
command.com
I tried to recovery them off the recovery disk but they are not there either. is there someplace I can get these files? I went to microsoft.comsupport and tried to put them in through notepad like they said and it did'nt work, must be doing something wrong.
I am havinga very big problem with my PC. When I try to start it up normally, I get the following message; "Windows could not start because the following fileis missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM. You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM. Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair" When I try this, it opens repair console, but then I have to select OS, and when I do this, it just comes up with the previous error. If I try to reinstall it comes up with a blue screen error and crashes.
View 7 Replies View Relatedmy computer is filled with all sorts of spyware and adware. Ive used all teh chekc programs etc. and deleted whatever i could but yet the pop ups continue to come. In add/remove programs i deleted everything i could but some things couldnt be deleted because the .dll files were missing or something along those lines. please review my hijack this and advise me further. In addition when i go to a website i must enter www or it doesnt connect to the site. on my other computer i can do that. what can i do to fix it??
my computer crashed and I had to replace operation disk and lost old files and e-mail. Is there any way to recover at this point?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI can't open some .exe files. I'm trying to install some drivers on a pc with xp, but for some reason when I click on the setup.exe file, nothing happens, it doesn't open or run. I thought that the driver was corrupted, so I tried to install that same driver on another pc with xp and it worked. I tried to install something else to see if I would get the same problem, at first the little window showing all the files that are being stalled shows for a second or two, then it disapears, it doesn't complete the installation. I should get a message saying that the installation is complete, but I do not get the message and I don't get any error messages, it just does nothing, I've installed this same program succesfully in another pc with xp too, but on this one it won't install. Someone suggested me to update the ms installer and to update net frameworks to the latest version, I did what was suggested, but I still get the same problem. I'm sure i'ts not a virus or spyware because I just made a fresh install of xp and I haven't gone online with that pc and I haven't downloaded anything from the net, even before making the fresh install, I didn't have any viruses or spyware. It seems that for some reason I'm not able to install just certain programs, because I can open and run other .exe files with no problem.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI had a differ video card installed which helped my pc. But some idiots decided to reload another version of xp pro. They did not use any back up program to save my files and everything they did save (which was about 60%) they loaded on to drive c: then drive d. I used to have one hard drive partioned into two. They made one big drive c:. So now to see my files - I have to go to my computer, then c: then d:. Files are in no order- program files, etc.. all mixed up in one big list.Ok smy next problem...I thought I could fix this by using my back up disks before the above people got a hold of it, well the pc took all the back up disk great, but I forgot about the d: drive no longer being there - so the disks tell me half way thru that they cannot get rights or something to d - but they do give an option to skip - which I did.. it installed the other few disks and when it said it was done, i had to reboot and i did.So.. at the end.. It boots up - but when Windows comes up - it tells me <windowsroot>system32hal.dll. is missing and to reinstall it.How do I do this? My computer is old, but it is all I got right now and I can not afford to buy anything..I will write a second post here - with my system info
View 13 Replies View RelatedI'm missing two dll files. I deleted them. The message was, RUNDLL C:WindowsSystem32NvCpl.dll and C:WindowsSystem32NvMcTray.dll
View 1 Replies View RelatedI turned on my laptop, and many files were missing from folders. In particular, I had two folders on my desktop, with many subfolders in each. Each subfolder had multiple files in them. When I went to access one, ALL of the SUBFOLDERS and ALL of the FILES were gone. I tried a system restore, and it brought back the subfolders, but not the files. I then tried TuneUp, CleanUP, HijackThis, Ewido, Micrsoft Antispyware, Lavasoft, and many other programs to bring back the files, but nothing can find them. I also have a updated McAfee constantly running, and there was never a virus.
View 3 Replies View Relatedbrowsing thru all the files, i mistakenly pressed a kind of a black comand promt icon, that was laying around amongst zillions of other unidentified files. the icons name was something like "declabs" or so. (the file itself is missing now).what happend is, the desktop startet to "clean" itself and only a few program shortcuts are left.the process went very quick.but now all the cleaned files are GONE.Any clue, what happend here and where to find the missing files? did search the whole machine for some files i knew, they were laying on the desktop and are missing now.but no result at all.
View 9 Replies View RelatedSuddenly some files on my Windows XP desktop disappeared (but not all of them: just a few). I've already reboot, tried the "explorer.exe method" and nothing seems to work.
View 6 Replies View RelatedA couple of days ago I stupidly opened a reg file which ended up slowly destroying my computer. THe first sign was applications taking longer to open. It would come up with 'Application error' then after pressing ok, I opened it again and it opened with success. It also took me a couple of goes to open the Task manager as well. The next thing I noticed was sometimes, explorer.exe wouldn't open so I would have to manually type it in via Task manager. Once Task Manager was opened, I would notice hundereds of drwatson's, which I had to end task. Now it seems my Laptop is working fine, however, there's a problem. It says all my files are there, but I can only access the program file ones (and even most of them don't open). All the main files, which were located in My Documents, I can't access. I'm on a new account Windows XP made, but the old account is still there, however, when I go to Control Panel, only my new account appears, not the old one. I go to Documents And Settings and the folder is there, however, it says it's empty. When I double click it, an error pops up saying, 'Access is denied.' I know all my files are there because I have 50 GB's of space and I only have 10 GB's free space remaining. I highlighted all the files (excluding My documents) and it came to a total of 10 GB's only. There's still that extra 30 I had located in My documents.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen ever I start my PC iam getting the following erros. "Files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecongized versions. To maintain system stability, windowns must restore the original versions of these files. Insert your windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 CD now."
& when ever I boot it from window xp CD it does not appear but it always does when I boot it from hard disk. How to removce this error without formatting the hard disk and without reinstalling win xp.
& What are the steps that one should follow if he wants to Format the C drive knowning that it has Windows ?
My computer, a dell dimension 8400 with windows xp home edition, keeps coming up with an error saying:Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32Configsystem.i ran boot utility and scanned the computer and the drives come up fine with the test(except the hard disk which popped up errors on a constant.)
View 14 Replies View Relatedi have windows xp pro installed on my pc along with linux mandrake 10.1 and one day while my dad was surfing the net the sreen turned blue and some type of error message came up and it said to do something if it happend again but i ignored it becuase i thought it wouldnt happen again so i restarted and when it came back on it went to a black sceen and i couldnt do anything but if i let it wait there it would come up with an error saying that windowssystem32config system was missing or corrupt
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe system can be restored by using the Startup CD and pressing R for recover, but I do not have any cd. The only one I have it the recover cd, but it is my understanding that if I use the recovery cd that I will erase everything from my computer and I can not do this.I tried to read the other threads about the same problem, but to be honest I do not understand them and I just do not have the startup cd - maybe it is the same as the recovery cd?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm running a Dell XPS 600 with Windows XP Professional Media Center Edition. Well, OK, it's not really running.I used System Restore to return my PC to a point about six weeks ago when the system was more stable. The PC rebooted, and now it won't boot any more due to a missing/corrupt CONFIGSYSTEM file.It won't boot from either of my CD drives, either. I've used the boot Setup to alter the boot sequence but that doesn't help, the system just doesnt recognize those drives during boot. For this same reason, I've been unable to access the Recovery Console.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a laptop, a Dell latitude d610 that says:Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windowssystem32configsystem I attempted to try the fix listed here:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 but when I went to copy using the command: copy c:windowssystem32configsystem c:window mpsystem.bak into the tmp directory I created it said: File could not be copied.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo i booted my t400 ibm laptop and this error message popped up as stated in the message title.My harddrive is in achi mode and i was wondering if i switch the harddrive mode and do a repair with an xp cd, will i lose any files?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWindows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM This is the error message i have. I have a copy of windows xp pro. i have no backup disk.
View 13 Replies View RelatedWhen I start the laptop, the first black screen loads, and then directly skips to an error message saying "Windows cannot start because the Windows/system32/ config/system file is either corrupt or missing." Then it prompts you to try to load Windows using the installation CD.which I do not have! Whoever's reading this, PLEASE please help me, the laptop's like, my life, and I haven't had the common sense to back up anything
View 12 Replies View RelatedWindows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM
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