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Posted by antioch on May 26, 2006, 6:22 pm
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That's a bit different - it wants my XP Pro Service Pack 2 CD to be
inserted. I only have Home. Is that OK.
Antioch
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>>>
> |>> Hello David
> |>> The computer started up OK in the morning but on reading through your
>>> advice
> |>> again, but a couple of times it would not shut down. I did wonder if
> I
>>> had
> |>> done the very last bit correctly.
> |>> I have been doing scans etc all day as per your past recommendations
> and
> |>> that of others.
> |>> Nothing found apart from a couple of open ports which Symantec always
>>> finds.
> |>> It took some minutes to download all the bits in that i386 folder, yet
>>> when
> |>> I hit OK after inserting in Run sfc.exe, there was a flash on the
>>> desktop
> |>> and that was it. Does that seem right. Should I have put something
> |>> different into Run.
> |>> Also, I was not too sure what you meant by '....to the 'root' of the C
> |>> drive.
> |>> Rgds
> |>> Antioch
> |>>
>>> The "root" of the "C:" drive is the lowest part. The root. The base.
>>> The moniker; c:\
>>> means the root of C:.
>>>
>>> Like I said, the command is; SFC /scannow and is best entered in a
>>> command prompt but
>>> doesn't have to be.
>>>
>>> As the switch /scannow infers, it will cause teh OS to "scan" the
>>> systems
>>> to make sure EXE
>>> and DLL files are the right version.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dave
>>> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
>>> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>>>
> | Then I did it wrong and there has been no scan etc.
> | So just dragging and drop of the i386 folder into the C drive, as opened
> via
> | My Computer/Local C along with the folders for Progs, Windows etc.
> | So I better do a proper entry in run. Is that a space bet SFC &
> /scannow.
> | Sorry to keep asking.
> | Antioch
> |
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> The full command line...
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> sfc /scannow
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> Copy and paste the above.
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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