Re: Sudden freezes, and bits missing

Hi Again

Thanks for all your efforts -we may nbot have solved the original problem
but have sorted out a few issues on the way. It's probably about time to end
this thread, but first;

Since I looked up sfc /scannow in the Microsoft knowlege base, and found
that there isn't a space between the / and scannow it works perfectly. Still
no effect on the problem though. I am now going to do this and everything
else again in safe mode.

A few final questions;

Yes I have SP2 on cd. As I said before I do not have the original XP on
disk as it is hidden somewhere in a partition and I can't get at it. Can I
still reload using the sp2 cd?

Is there a site anywhere that lists all those useful utilities like sfc?

Cheers

"Galen" wrote:

> In news:C708768B-9AB3-4E8E-BD1C-396BBD719CE2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Tim <Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
> > OK.
> >
> > One thing, though. Out of curiosity today at work, I tried the RUN
> > sfc / scannow and got exactly the same response as I get at home. A
> > quick flash of a black DOS style window.
> >
> > So, either there is some mistake in the command, or alternatively
> > there are some administrator priviliges set up on the work machine
> > which stop the command working, or the commands have somehow been
> > removed as part of the set-up. Is it possible that my administrator
> > settings have somehow got screwed up here at home to give a similar
> > effect?
> >
> > FYI, I removed and reinstalled SP2 yesterday and follwed Microsoft's
> > advice to check for spyware, using their suggested software. It
> > found over one hundred!! And in the process McAfee found another
> > virus too. None of this has cleared up the problems, though.
> >
> > I'm still fairly sure the freezing is in some way connected with
> > internet activity, or inactivity.
> >
> > Cheers
>
> When you run SFC /SCANNOW it should open a command prompt window for a
> moment and then it will go ahead and open another smaller window which is it
> checking the files. It takes a while to run, it's a good time to get a cup
> of coffee. Seeing as it's not opening at all other than to open the command
> prompt window it would seem to me that there's something even more
> drastically wrong.
>
> If a client brought this PC with these problems in to me for repair I'd have
> gone through the malware scanning process and when I found that it didn't
> result in the system having all of it's functions I'd have cloned the drive,
> and re-installed the OS from scratch. I'd have done the updates and then,
> using the cloned drive, I'd have put back their applications that still had
> installers on the system, documents, and the like after scanning all of them
> for malware.
>
> Seeing as this is not something that you probably have the desire to do I'd
> really consider giving the system a repair installation and loading SP2
> immediately after having done so. Did you get the SP2 CD version? If so then
> I'd burn that to disk... Keep in mind that a repair installation won't kill
> the viruses or the like that are already on the system. I'd only do that as
> an option if I was pretty sure that the system was finally clean. Did you do
> your malware scans and removal in safe mode WITHOUT networking?
>
> This is not a simple process. It's going to take some time. If you're really
> in a hurry you can go ahead and do the complete re-installation after making
> backups of all the information that you want to keep. You can also use the
> files and settings transfer wizard so that you're able to bring your
> settings to the next installation. It's a bit drastic but it's an option
> that it's about time for you to give serious consideration.
>
> As for your freezing, I'm still not sure what the reason is for that. I
> think that you may be right or it may actually be something to do with the
> actual malware problems that you'd been having.
>
> Galen
> --
>
> "And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
> with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
> very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
> made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."
>
> Sherlock Holmes
>
>
>
.

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