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On the computer at work we have XP Home Edition. The computer use to be at my Boss's house, he decided to bring it to work and get rid of the old wind up box with win95 on it.
For the last few days when we boot up this computer (the XP one) we get this error message, rite after the "post".
And it goes sumtin like dis...
WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
YOU CAN ATTEMPT TO REPAIR THIS FILE BY STARTING WINDOWS SETUP USING THE ORIGINAL SETUP CD-ROM.
SELECT 'r' AT THE FIRST SCREEN TO START REPAIR.
Now I tried the repair console and I got nothing. The thing is that if we reset or restart the computer two (2) or three (3) times it will boot fine. But sometimes the theme apperance is now the "Classic Windows" style. And if I right click the desktop and go to properties, the XP syle of desktop is nowhere to be found. That's when I have to do a system restore. We are not running any theme proggies on this system and no tweaks of any kind. Also it does NOT have SP1 on it. He does have quite a few updates installed but it has been quite a while since it has been updated again.
I usually will do a system restore when the theme is not the same as it was. Then everything is fine. It does not do this always but it is somewhat annoying.
It did it again today and I just reset the computer and it restarted fine and the theme is fine also.
There are NO viruses nor Adware on this computer.
*ME CONFUSED*
Need some clues and help please.
AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz CPU
nVidia Gforce2 32 MB
256 MB RAM
Maxtor HDD
Sound Blaster Live
Asus A7PRO MoBo
Netgear FA310TX
For the last few days when we boot up this computer (the XP one) we get this error message, rite after the "post".
And it goes sumtin like dis...
WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
YOU CAN ATTEMPT TO REPAIR THIS FILE BY STARTING WINDOWS SETUP USING THE ORIGINAL SETUP CD-ROM.
SELECT 'r' AT THE FIRST SCREEN TO START REPAIR.
Now I tried the repair console and I got nothing. The thing is that if we reset or restart the computer two (2) or three (3) times it will boot fine. But sometimes the theme apperance is now the "Classic Windows" style. And if I right click the desktop and go to properties, the XP syle of desktop is nowhere to be found. That's when I have to do a system restore. We are not running any theme proggies on this system and no tweaks of any kind. Also it does NOT have SP1 on it. He does have quite a few updates installed but it has been quite a while since it has been updated again.
I usually will do a system restore when the theme is not the same as it was. Then everything is fine. It does not do this always but it is somewhat annoying.
It did it again today and I just reset the computer and it restarted fine and the theme is fine also.
There are NO viruses nor Adware on this computer.
*ME CONFUSED*
Need some clues and help please.
AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz CPU
nVidia Gforce2 32 MB
256 MB RAM
Maxtor HDD
Sound Blaster Live
Asus A7PRO MoBo
Netgear FA310TX