Rock

Hi Darrell, can you confirm whether one can do a repair install, buy
reinstalling Vista on top of itself to fix problems as in the in place
upgrade in XP?

Thanks

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" <Darrellg@online.microsoft.com> wrote
> Hello,
> Right now a reinstall or upgrade may be the best choice.
> From the looks of the log file the prblem appears to be corruption in the
> store which is causing this.
> Thanks,
> Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
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> |>"mitvah" <mitvah@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> |>news:C5ACB8B2-B32A-4FB2-AE91-B403773E2C35@microsoft.com...
> |>> Iâ?Tve 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. Iâ?Tve 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. Iâ?Tm
> able to
> |>> boot up the windows and its generally funtinal but quite a few things
> are
> |>> not
> |>> working e.g. I canâ?Tt 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.
> |>
> |>--
> |>Jim
> |>
> |>
>