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Need to edit system.ini
Name: mer_ner Date: June 9, 2004 at 07:21:31 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: P4 2.8GHz, 512Mb
Comment:
I can't load Windows, but I know how I can fix that. I just need to know how I can start the command prompt so I can edit system.ini. Please can someone help?
Name: XpUser Date: June 9, 2004 at 07:23:16 Pacific
Reply:
You cannot. You have not registered your machine copy of XP.
Look here http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/106983.html
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: June 9, 2004 at 07:24:27 Pacific
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System.ini is not the key to starting Windows XP.
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Response Number 3
Name: mer_ner Date: June 9, 2004 at 07:28:19 Pacific
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When I got my pc from PC World. It is a Fujitsu-Seimens, it came with Windows XP Home Edition. I cannot find the cd, which may even be a DVD can't remember now, for Windows XP. I was trying to get rid of some Spyware and I have read that their is line in that I need to change:
"At that point I typed cat Userinit and lo and behold, up came C:\WINDOWS\System32\wsaupdater.exe... I don't know what company replaced userinit.exe with this entry, but I don't think I like them. At any rate I typed ed Userinit and at the prompt [C:\Windows\System32\wsaupdater.exe] I typed C:\Windows\System32\userinit.exe and hit enter."
I deleted the file wsaupdater.exe before I restarted the pc.
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Response Number 4
Name: indigian Date: June 9, 2004 at 07:37:42 Pacific
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