Rock

"JimR" <jrap107@msn.com> wrote

> "mitvah" <mitvah@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> I’ve a Vista Ultimate installed on a DELL Latitude D620 laptop. The
>> problem
>> started a few weeks ago when Symantec Antivirus reported catching Clone
>> War
>> (1) on my computer. I’ve since done a few clean scans using various
>> scanning
>> programs but some system files seems to have been lost or are corrupted.
>> I
>> tried running sfc /scannow under admin cmd window and also after
>> starting
>> the recovery cmd window, but got the same message both time:
>>
>> Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.
>>
>> Even the automated recovery option to fix boot problem failed. I’m able
>> to
>> boot up the windows and its generally funtinal but quite a few things are
>> not
>> working e.g. I can’t open the personalize window from the desktop right
>> click
>> menu.
>>
>> Unitl late last week I was able to run the sfc and it reported a whole
>> bunch
>> of problems but did not automatically fix anything. I didn't have time to
>> look into manually fixing things but now even that's not working.
>>
>> Please help!
>
>
> If you are sure the system is clean, the quickest solution might be a
> repair install of Vista.


I'm unsure of what you mean here. How do you do a repair install of Vista?
An in place upgrade that was available in XP was not carried over to Vista.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]