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Regedit error on startup?

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Name: makris
Date: January 26, 2004 at 13:28:57 Pacific
OS: windows 2000
CPU/Ram: p3 800
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I am getting a weird popup on startup in the cmd.exe windows that says
" c:\>start c:\RECYCLER\extsrv.exe c:\RECYCLER\win.dll
c:\>regedit /s services.reg"
This is followed by a popup with the title of REGISTRY EDITOR that says"cannot import services.reg:error opening the file. there may be a disk or file system error".
I have ran several different virus scans and I can't seem to find anything that helps. Does anyone know what this is and how to fix it? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,




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Name: Tonto
Date: January 29, 2004 at 02:44:32 Pacific
Reply:

It could be that you have some corrupted files. Go to Start, run, type sfc /scannow ,click OK. Insert your W2K CD. The program will check for corruptred files and reinstall them. Unfortunately it does not provide a report. If that does not work then try repair using the Win2K CD. You will need to change the booting order of your computer. When you start up your computer, press the Delete key (sometimes it is F2 or F5) and a BIOS screen will appear. There you will be able to change the booting sequence to CDROM being first. Save and reboot. Watch closely as "Boot from CDROM" will come up quickly and allow you no more than 5 seconds to "Hit the key to Boot from CDROM". When you hit a key it will boot from the Win2k CD. The CD will load files which takes a minute or two. Then, choices appear as Install, Repair etc. Choose Repair. It will ask you for Manual or Fast. Try the fast one 1st and if that didn't work try the 2nd one. 2nd one,,,Reboot with win2k cd select install it will ask you if you want to try to repair the win2k you have on the machine select YES....Note: It will NOT overwrite you data files just put down new OS systems files.. When it is finished, while rebooting, change the sequence back to the original one, save and proceed. It should work. If you are new to this, I suggest that you jot down on paper what you are doing, so that you can retrace your steps.


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