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how to check windows system files integrity?
how to check windows system files integrity? (to be sure no files has been
replaced or corrupted, after spyware screensaver removing). thanks. |
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how to check windows system files integrity?
Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc
SANTANDER wrote: how to check windows system files integrity? (to be sure no files has been replaced or corrupted, after spyware screensaver removing). thanks. |
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how to check windows system files integrity?
"Bill in Co." wrote in
: Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc Well, what do you know. Thanks. It's been a long time since I saw any useful info (and unknown to me, needless to say) posted here. [A few minutes later...] Follow up question, if I may: Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different one ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was "bad" (setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but backed it up to check it later. It is /exactly/ the same as the file which replaced it - and which was /not/ flagged by SFC as "bad", EITHER! Is this just another example of the quality of MS products or what? -- The only cure for stupidity is death. The only cure for brilliance is death. The only cure for love is death. The only cure for hate is death. Indifference needs no cure. The only cure for life is death. {© 2007 thanatoid} |
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how to check windows system files integrity?
thanatoid wrote in
: [A few minutes later...] Just happened to do my once-a-month check on my throwaway hotmail account. "© 2008 Microsoft Corporation" (Only the log-in page, the others still say 2007... Of course...) It's not 2008 in Redmond yet! Sigh. -- The only cure for stupidity is death. The only cure for brilliance is death. The only cure for love is death. The only cure for hate is death. Indifference needs no cure. The only cure for life is death. {© 2007 thanatoid} |
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how to check windows system files integrity?
"Bill in Co." wrote in
: Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc "thanatoid" wrote in message ... Well, what do you know. Thanks. It's been a long time since I saw any useful info (and unknown to me, needless to say) posted here. [A few minutes later...] Follow up question, if I may: Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different one ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was "bad" (setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but backed it up to check it later. It is /exactly/ the same as the file which replaced it - and which was /not/ flagged by SFC as "bad", EITHER! SFC = System File Checker is a crude tool. When you installed Win98 the process created a checklist of CRCs of system files: and running SFC later merely assembles a current list of system files and compares them with the check list. The catch is that the original list is not updated, so if MS updates an OS file (using the same filename) it may wrongly report itself as bad because rightly changed. All we can do is look at file / Properties for version number and date, to guess this point. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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how to check windows system files integrity?
thanatoid wrote:
"Bill in Co." wrote in : Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc Well, what do you know. Thanks. It's been a long time since I saw any useful info (and unknown to me, needless to say) posted here. [A few minutes later...] Follow up question, if I may: Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different one ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was "bad" (setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but backed it up to check it later. It is /exactly/ the same as the file which replaced it - and which was /not/ flagged by SFC as "bad", EITHER! Is this just another example of the quality of MS products or what? Probably karma for having a hotmail account -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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how to check windows system files integrity?
"dadiOH" wrote in
: thanatoid wrote: "Bill in Co." wrote in : Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc Well, what do you know. Thanks. It's been a long time since I saw any useful info (and unknown to me, needless to say) posted here. [A few minutes later...] Follow up question, if I may: Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different one ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was "bad" (setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but backed it up to check it later. It is /exactly/ the same as the file which replaced it - and which was /not/ flagged by SFC as "bad", EITHER! Is this just another example of the quality of MS products or what? Probably karma for having a hotmail account :-D Hey, I wouldn't have one but I need it for stuff which is certain to generate junkmail etc. I have a "secret" real pop3 account which I pay $15/year for and which hardly /ever/ got any junk mail until the recent wave began about 10 months ago (or something). |
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how to check windows system files integrity?
"Don Phillipson" wrote in
: SNIP "thanatoid" wrote in message ... SNIP Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different one ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was "bad" (setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but backed it up to check it later. It is /exactly/ the same as the file which replaced it - and which was /not/ flagged by SFC as "bad", EITHER! SFC = System File Checker is a crude tool. When you installed Win98 the process created a checklist of CRCs of system files: and running SFC later merely assembles a current list of system files and compares them with the check list. The catch is that the original list is not updated, so if MS updates an OS file (using the same filename) it may wrongly report itself as bad because rightly changed. All we can do is look at file / Properties for version number and date, to guess this point. Thanks for your comment. I thought that's basically how it worked, and "crude" is sort of a given ;-) Still, the date, size AND contents (checked with Total Commander's "compare by content") all match EXACTLY, so it /shouldn't/ have flagged it. Also, that machine has no internet connection ability and I have never seen a change to/with that file in my InCtrl4 logs which I use religiously with every single install ever. Oh well... |
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how to check windows system files integrity?
Corrupted Setupx.dll After Installing Windows 98 Second Edition
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231793 -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.net/ http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm "thanatoid" wrote in message ... "Don Phillipson" wrote in : SNIP "thanatoid" wrote in message ... SNIP Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different one ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was "bad" (setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but backed it up to check it later. It is /exactly/ the same as the file which replaced it - and which was /not/ flagged by SFC as "bad", EITHER! SFC = System File Checker is a crude tool. When you installed Win98 the process created a checklist of CRCs of system files: and running SFC later merely assembles a current list of system files and compares them with the check list. The catch is that the original list is not updated, so if MS updates an OS file (using the same filename) it may wrongly report itself as bad because rightly changed. All we can do is look at file / Properties for version number and date, to guess this point. Thanks for your comment. I thought that's basically how it worked, and "crude" is sort of a given ;-) Still, the date, size AND contents (checked with Total Commander's "compare by content") all match EXACTLY, so it /shouldn't/ have flagged it. Also, that machine has no internet connection ability and I have never seen a change to/with that file in my InCtrl4 logs which I use religiously with every single install ever. Oh well... |
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how to check windows system files integrity?
On 01 Jan 2008 05:27:49 GMT, thanatoid put
finger to keyboard and composed: thanatoid wrote in : [A few minutes later...] Just happened to do my once-a-month check on my throwaway hotmail account. "© 2008 Microsoft Corporation" (Only the log-in page, the others still say 2007... Of course...) It's not 2008 in Redmond yet! Sigh. I have a throwaway account with Yahoo. It allows for POP access via my email client which means that I never need to visit the ad-infested Yahoo web site. I believe that Microsoft/Hotmail also provide POP access, but only to selected users. - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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