I would contact HP While you're at it ask them to ship you a new XP CD. They might be unwilling to but the squeaky wheel gets the grease. XP CD; finally a solution. Click to expand Most manufacturers put the XP installation files inside a folder named I If you can burn the contents of this folder to a CD, then you may be able to substitute it for the real thing.
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Just copy the whole folder to your hard drive. Note that it'll take some MB in size, but with today's large hard drives this shouldn't be a problem. If you didn't get a Windows CD when you purchased your computer, it is likely that this folder will already be on your hard drive. Windows will keep track of updated system files that are introduced through the "normal" channels, such as Windows Update, Windows Service Pack installation using Update.
In the Run box type regedit. This opens the registry. You will see two lines that need to be changed. They are Servicepacksource and sourcepath. Because my Windows CD is a few years old and does not reflect all the updates since, I thought that there would be updates but there were none. Leo, Thanks for this information. Thanks again, jubal. Similar to a lot of the other apps MS provides, there are many glitches in running SFC, chief of which is that the updated versions of the system files do not relate to what one has on their installation CD.
As a consequence of this, I have found that running SFC is virtually worthless. I think you left out a step. You state that we should have installation discs handy. That should work. Theoretically, yes. You may have to download the ISO for Windows 10, but it should still be quite possible. I was wondering i am not an advanced user. Open Powershell. Right-click on thee Powershell icon in th Taskbar. Click on Yes in the UAC prompt.
I have used a paid software called Reimage which seems to automate the process of SFC and replaces any corrupt files with its own data base of good system files. In the course of doing it, it also does a few other cleanups like malware etc. It seems to work at least not getting my system to an unbootable state although I cannot tell exactly what files, if any, it has changed. The initial scan almost always says I have Windows damage. Can you do a review of this software or comment on it?
That may have changed. This is what I got:. Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. It appears that sfc was able to fix the corrupted system files. The information in the article is outdated. If scf finds unfixable errors, DISM can be run with a single click from the same utility. Either way, you should always run sfc again to check the problem is fixed.
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