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''cannot defragment because c:windows\system32\MFC42u.dll
is not valid windows image'' i keep getting this message
when i try to defrag???
 
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Hi,

Click start/run, type "sfc /scannow" (without the quotes) and click ok.
Allow this tool to validate the system file set.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"billp2" <wrparkhill@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> ''cannot defragment because c:windows\system32\MFC42u.dll
> is not valid windows image'' i keep getting this message
> when i try to defrag???
 
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hi rick, i tried that didnt do anything still same prob??
any other ideas appreciated
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>Click start/run, type "sfc /scannow" (without the
quotes) and click ok.
>Allow this tool to validate the system file set.
>
>--
>Best of Luck,
>
>Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>"billp2" <wrparkhill@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:329901c4aaa1$841c99e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> ''cannot defragment because c:windows\system32
\MFC42u.dll
>> is not valid windows image'' i keep getting this
message
>> when i try to defrag???
>
>
>.
>
 
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Do you use Visual Studio? mfc42u.dll is related to c++, as I recall.

"billp2" <wrparkhill@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:329901c4aaa1$841c99e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> ''cannot defragment because c:windows\system32\MFC42u.dll
> is not valid windows image'' i keep getting this message
> when i try to defrag???