Re: IE6 no longer accessing internet
- From: Joe Hunter <JoeHunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:46:01 -0700
Thank for response, Frank,
I did think of that yesterday when I examined the Gateway restore CD more
closely.
I found that both the laptop and the Gateway desktop do in fact have an i386
folder, actually several ;-). They provide a base one plus addiotional ones
for things unique to Media Center, etc. Plus, the restore CD has one too.
The problem I found though is that SFC doesn't give me a chance to browse to
the location where they are. I thought I remembered that SFC did give such
an option in earlier versions of Windows, but when I ran it on the laptop, it
just kept telling me that I had the wrong CD installed and had no option to
look for the files elsewhere.
At one point it did say that it wanted the CD with a label of "X1APCCP_EN"
which happens to match the retail copy of XP Pro (and the slipstreamed update
with SP2) but it didn't like them either.
I just tried invoking SFC without any option and all I got was a brief flash
of a command prompt window. I thought that might bring it up with some sort
of option to specify where to look for missing files.
Have they changed the way SFC operates or is this just something strange on
both my XP machines?
Joe
"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:
"Joe Hunter" <JoeHunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message.
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Thanks for response, Frank,
I'll search out those locations later this evening.
I ran into a snag when running "scf /scannow" again. It asks for my
Windows XP CD2 to recover some files. However, I have a Gateway laptop
that
came only with a CD that restores the system to as-shipped state. That
wasn't accepted by "sfc".
Earlier, I had run IEFIX as Don suggested, and that accepted my
slipstreamed
XP2 from another system, but that wasn't acceptable to "sfc" either.
Although the label matched what "sfc" asked for (X1APCCP_EN) "sfc" still
said
I had put in the wrong CD.
The retail version I have is XP Pro, whereas the two newer Gateway
machines
(one desktop and one laptop) have XP Media Center on them. This might
well
be the cause of these problems trying to recover sdamaged files with
"sfc".
I've asked Gateway what they expect a customer to do when asked for a CD
they didn't supply, but they haven't answered that yet. All they
suggested
was to go back to some earlier restore point, which would require
reinstalling any applications installed after that.
Joe
Most computer manufacturers put an \i386 folder somewhere on the computer.
This holds the needed files from (the same folder on) the real Microsoft CD.
If you browse to that folder when sfc asks for the CD it generally works.
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