Re: Windows can't find "msconfig"

From: Fleur (fleur_at_cox.net)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:28:39 -0700

Success. Your Solution 2 put me onto the right track. My Start/Run is
finding its programs in my WINNT\system 32 directory. I found that out by
looking for a command that was working there, i.e. "help", and searching for
where it was located. I found that neither msconfig nor msinfo32 were in
that directory but were found elsewhere. I copied them to the system 32
directory and they now work!

As I wrote in my first message about this, I had a Trojan that has been very
troublesome and left a lot of sequelae which just keep cropping up. My
Norton AV icon in the notification tray just stopped working, as did ALL
previous restore points. I've used every spyware, adware, extra virus
programs, etc. that I could find and now have a clean system. My Norton AV
icon still doesn't work, but my Norton Firewall icon does and gives me
access to the AV. How this Trojan changed the Run command, I have no idea.
It just managed to move things around. My Restore now works again,
thankfully. I know I'm not the only one out there having these problems, but
I sure have learned a lot about my system lately.

Thanks again for putting me on the right track. Fleur

"bkunzler" <bkunzler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OjeWb%23oKEHA.2260@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I can think of 2 solutions.
>
> Solution 1: When you need to run msconfig, click Start, Click run and
type
> "C:\WINNT\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\msconfig.exe"
>
> Solution 2: When I run a search for msconfig, I get 2 hits on the search.
> One copy in "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries" the other in
> "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache". I would try copying msconfig so that
there
> is a copy in both of "C:\WINNT\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries" and in
> "C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache" or in (which ever folder exists)
> "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache"
>
>
>
> "Andrew Stapleton" <andrewnospam@nornospam.com.au> wrote in message
> news:OISTOGnKEHA.628@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Mine is in C:\windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries
> > HTH
> > Regards
> >
> > "Fleur" <fleur@cox.net> wrote in message
> > news:y4Cic.31543$L75.1819@fed1read06...
> > > When I click Start, click Run, type "msconfig", I get the error
message,
> > > "Windows can't find msconfig....."
> > >
> > > Yesterday, my "Help and Support" wouldn't work, but now works fine
after
> I
> > > followed directions on one of the XP help websites, downloaded
> > > "helpnsupport.reg" and ran it.
> > >
> > > I did a search for msconfig and found msconfig.exe in
> > > C:\WINNT\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries
> > >
> > > Obviously, this is not where Windows is looking for it. When I click
on
> > it,
> > > the msconfig program works fine. How do I get it back where it belongs
> so
> > > Windows can find it?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance. Fleur
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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