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Operating Systems :: Windows :: problem updating sp1 2 sp2
By: omuyelijah Nigeria  Date: 26/10/2006 18:34:26  English  Points: 20 Status: Answered
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Bonjour Monsieur,
I have 2 problems

1.
I installed Avast antivirus on a system hit with worms. Now working well but
problem updating system from Win xp1 to sp2. it gives d following error

win sp2 error:
the core system (kernel) file is not a Microsoft windows file.


what do you advice?


2. On my Hp nx6310 laptop dat i have been using well now, When I right-click on drive c or my Rundisk flash drive, the first two menu items dat appear are strange. click them opens the folder in a new window.
Already the following settings aren't affected
--- open folders in new windows Unchecked

Is there a cause for alarm? what do you advice?

Ur blessed Man


By: VGR Date: 27/10/2006 00:44:07 English  Type : Comment
I have absolutely no clue at all. Deactivate Avast before upgrading to SP2. Deactivate firewall too. (if you use it !!! ;-)
By: saggu.gurpreet Date: 27/10/2006 02:40:40 English  Type : Comment
the best way is to msconfig.
disable all 3rd paty applications andv services
By: omuyelijah Date: 31/10/2006 16:22:45 English  Type : Answer

Hello

I later discovered dat the boot.ini file had the /kernel switches added to it. The kernel file wasn't bad at all. Third party programs usually edit this file some how.

So I opened d boot.ini file (4rm desktop--> Right-click My computer-> properties -> Advanced Options -> Start up and recovery -> Edit)
and removed the /kernel switches.

After this, Upgrade was made successfully.
By: VGR Date: 31/10/2006 17:05:03 English  Type : Comment
one more strange thing to know about the microsoft "OS". Good job you did ;-)
By: omuyelijah Date: 23/11/2006 14:25:46 English  Type : Comment
Hello VGR,

Concerning the second problem I asked about the strange menu items, I later discovered dat it was due to some intrusion of some sort of a particular file into my system. These files r autorun.xxx files (about 13 in number), replicating in system32 folder and root of drive c: (particularly) with other drives.

on checking the registry ,following key was altered by clicking any of the strange menu items followeed by replication


from userinit to userinit,autorun.bat

Lately, I designed a little program to solve the problem and hope to post it soon.

Thanks.
By: omuyelijah Date: 23/11/2006 14:26:53 English  Type : Comment
Sorry. the key is

HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon/Userinit

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