scannow sfc

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I ran scannow sfc and it asked me for my XP CD - so some of the files were
corrupted and had to be replaced from the CD. But afterwards my modem would
not connect and my ISP icon disappeared from the desktop. I restored it to an
earlier point and then everything worked. Q: Did the restore get rid of the
new files I got from the CD and go back to the old corrupted files? Or is the
restore facility clever enough not to do this? By the way - everything seems
to be working fine.
Miro

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I've heard System Restore called a number of things but "clever" has never
been one of them ;-)

Bert Kinney has an excellent site dedicated to understanding, using and
repairing System Restore
http://home.earthlink.net/~mvp_ber [...] ption.html



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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Miro" <Miro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:503FEF07-E472-49D1-B5F7-8D2F71E0B297@microsoft.com...
> I ran scannow sfc and it asked me for my XP CD - so some of the files
were
> corrupted and had to be replaced from the CD. But afterwards my modem
would
> not connect and my ISP icon disappeared from the desktop. I restored it to
an
> earlier point and then everything worked. Q: Did the restore get rid of
the
> new files I got from the CD and go back to the old corrupted files? Or is
the
> restore facility clever enough not to do this? By the way - everything
seems
> to be working fine.
> Miro
>

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Thanks,
That is good news.

"bumtracks" wrote:

> sfc replaces windwows system files, they'll stick.
> restore is dealing with restoring configurations and not actual files.
>
> "Miro" <Miro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:503FEF07-E472-49D1-B5F7-8D2F71E0B297@microsoft.com...
> >I ran scannow sfc and it asked me for my XP CD - so some of the files were
> > corrupted and had to be replaced from the CD. But afterwards my modem
> > would
> > not connect and my ISP icon disappeared from the desktop. I restored it to
> > an
> > earlier point and then everything worked. Q: Did the restore get rid of
> > the
> > new files I got from the CD and go back to the old corrupted files? Or is
> > the
> > restore facility clever enough not to do this? By the way - everything
> > seems
> > to be working fine.
> > Miro
> >
>
>
>

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Hi Miro,

Running System Restore after SFC has made changes to system files,
System Restore would replace any monitored files changed after the
restore point was created, undoing the changes made by SFC.

What I think happened in this case is, SFC replace newer files with
files from the CD.
This would be especially true if the system had Services Packs
installed and the CD SFC used was the original release of WinXP. Also
if the ServicePackFiles\i386 file were removed from the system to save
disk space, SFC would revert to the CD.
If everything is running as it should I would not be concerned with
what SFC found to be corrupt.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://dts-l.org/


Miro wrote:
> I ran scannow sfc and it asked me for my XP CD - so some
> of the files were corrupted and had to be replaced from
> the CD. But afterwards my modem would not connect and my
> ISP icon disappeared from the desktop. I restored it to
> an earlier point and then everything worked. Q: Did the
> restore get rid of the new files I got from the CD and go
> back to the old corrupted files? Or is the restore
> facility clever enough not to do this? By the way -
> everything seems to be working fine.
> Miro