Tool to verify/validate XP files?

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G'day all;

I seem to recollect some time back that someone had mentioned a tool, from
MS (?), that can be used to verify your system files & repair your registry.
But I've gone through my usually reliable collection of notes and can't seem
to find squat.

Was there such a tool or was what I thought I remembered the result of an
age related mental haze...(:-o)!

I'm still trying to recover my system from those damnedable "1606"
errors...<big sigh!>


TIA,
Dusty
San Jose

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"Keith Jakobs, MCP" <elohir@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uCp4iTfnFHA.2904@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi Dusty...
>
> Are you possibly referring to the System File Check utility (sfc.exe)? I
> know it checks the integrity of the system files, and requires that you
> have
> your original media available, but I don't recall if it also does any work
> on the registry.
>
> If that is the utility you want to use, you just need to type the
> following
> at a command prompt:
>
> sfc /scannow
>
> Good Luck
Thanks, Keith. Yep. I think that's it. I guess I thought it rebuilt the
registry as well.

I've been trying to "fix" my installation, but can't seem to do it...cuz my
delivery CD didn't include SP2, and I haven't yet figured out how to
successfully make a "slip-streamed" CD up to SP2.

Always one thing if not the other...<big sigh!>

Dusty

>
> Keith C. Jakobs, MCP
>
> "DustyB" <pc_phixer@innerDROPTHISlodge.com> wrote in message
> news:uCPPEOfnFHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> G'day all;
>>
>> I seem to recollect some time back that someone had mentioned a tool,
>> from
>> MS (?), that can be used to verify your system files & repair your
> registry.
>> But I've gone through my usually reliable collection of notes and can't
> seem
>> to find squat.
>>
>> Was there such a tool or was what I thought I remembered the result of an
>> age related mental haze...(:-o)!
>>
>> I'm still trying to recover my system from those damnedable "1606"
>> errors...<big sigh!>
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>> Dusty
>> San Jose
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:29:43 -0700, "DustyB"
<pc_phixer@innerDROPTHISlodge.com> wrote:

>"Keith Jakobs, MCP" <elohir@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:uCp4iTfnFHA.2904@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Dusty...
>>
>> Are you possibly referring to the System File Check utility (sfc.exe)? I
>> know it checks the integrity of the system files, and requires that you
>> have
>> your original media available, but I don't recall if it also does any work
>> on the registry.
>>
>> If that is the utility you want to use, you just need to type the
>> following
>> at a command prompt:
>>
>> sfc /scannow
>>
>> Good Luck
>Thanks, Keith. Yep. I think that's it. I guess I thought it rebuilt the
>registry as well.
>
>I've been trying to "fix" my installation, but can't seem to do it...cuz my
>delivery CD didn't include SP2, and I haven't yet figured out how to
>successfully make a "slip-streamed" CD up to SP2.
>
>Always one thing if not the other...<big sigh!>
>
>Dusty
>
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?a [...] article=49

Slipstream step by step - so easy my boss only took 4 hours (2 on the
phone) to get through it. Mind you he has problems with e mail.

8-)

Jonah