Re: SFC /SCANNOW asking for files from non existent sources...
From: Peter (ex-brit)
Date: 07/24/05
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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:07:47 -0400
Start/Run/Regedit go to HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Setup and alter to
following to C:\
ServicePackSourcePath
SourcePath
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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 HT @ 3ghz, 1gb RAM, 360gb HD
"Ms. Linda A.W." <msnews@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:OuvlwkCkFHA.4000@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I wanted to verify my Windows files. While I have installed the
> CD i386 image in the /windows/options/i386 directory, it seems to ignore
> that
> location. It wanted to see the files in the root directory C:\i386. So I
> copied the files there (though I'm sure I've used /windows/options/i386 in
> the
> past. That solved the requst for the WinXP CD,
> but now it wants a Service Pack 1 CD.
>
> Um...I never had an SP1 CD. I downloaded
> it and installed it over the net from my file server. So why is it asking
> for a CD that never existed and/or how can I point the install location
> back to
> where I installed it from?
>
> thanks for pointers...I'd love to get a clean run.
>
> Am having trouble with Office products (Word 2k or xp) using various
> international fonts ('MS Unicode et al). I can select he fonts but
> any text formated with the broken fonts is invisible.
>
> This has existed since I was advised by a Microsoft Support technician
> to uninstall all my office products and reinstall to solve another
> problem,
> but on re-installing, the problem is immediately evident. Under the
> International font support, additional core files and the universal font
> are "X"'ed out to indicate they woudln't be installed by _default_. I can
> force the install of the fonts, but they won't work.
>
> The fonts _DO_ work in wordpad, but not in Word, Powerpoint or Outlook.
> They also work in other 3rd party apps including MS's IE6.
>
> Any help into either problem would be great.
>
> I have uninstalled and reinstalled with different options, but I need go
> no
> farther than installing CD1 of Office 2000. As soon as I see the "X"'ed
> out
> default, I know the problem exists, as it didn't have that problem the
> first time I installed it. I have run the Office 2003 setup cleanup file,
> but
> I don't know if it fixes Office 2000 or XP problems. There is no cleanup
> tool for O2k that runs on XP that I've found.
>
> Microsoft "specialists" in Bangalore have been on this for a week around
> 2-3
> hours/call and have gotten no where. The problem is they don't seem to
> have
> access to the source or knowledge of the internals of what can be causing
> these
> problems. They just keep you on the phone hours and hours repeating steps
> already done "just because"...
>
> The problem I have in Outlook has to do with it speaking the wrong
> protocol
> to talk to my IMAP server. It's literally not complient with the protocol
> and doesn't send an "end-of-command" message to the server, so the server
> never responds, but Outlook thinks it sent it...deadly embrace/deadlock.
> It is a random problem based on timing happening about 30% of the time.
>
> It's frustrating to label security fixes as "critical' and then when you
> install
> them, your rollback is corrupted and your Outlook client stops
> functioning. They have so far refused to issue a patch or replacement
> product. I specifically bought the outlook upgrade to handle my multiple
> IMAP folders --
> worked for all of 5 months before being disabled by a Critical MS security
> hack.
>
> I noticed elsewhere, that if one installs a task scheuler task or SP2, the
> task
> scheduler failes to run jobs -- the person who investigated that said
> microsoft
> had no schedule or urgency to fix the problem.
>
> I'm beginning to feel like MS is deliberately sabotaging their software so
> older
> software breaks and the OS (WinXP) is slowing down (significantly since
> first
> release) so they can impress us with the fact that Longhorn(vista) will
> run
> at full speed again.
>
> Sorry venting a bit...but this has drawn out to more than 2 weeks this
> go-round
> and this one wiped most of my unicode fonts -- specially Arial Unicode
> MS --
> which I use regularly in my documents but can no longer access or print.
> :-(
>
> Again, thanks for any help.
>
> Linda
>
>
>
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