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adam.macneil

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  1. cool. I'm sure it will want to update again afterwards, I was just worried that taking that big a step backwards would cost me alot of files. Also my wife and kid have profiles on this thing too, but that's just another step or 2 to make sure all our files remain safe. of course, all our profiles should still be intact shouldn't they, just the settings on them will have been reset, so everything should be okay anyway... I've got to wake up more when I'm working on this thing. sfc /scannow did ask for the disk and continued to run for quite a while, but in the end it just closed, and nothing seems to have changed. I'll try again tomorrow when I'll be able to oversee what's going on more closely. Thanks again for the help, Adam
  2. I got sfc /scannow to work, forgot the space last time. errors still coming, update won't run. I can re-install, however won't replacing XP sp2 with only XP original cause more issues?
  3. I used "At a command prompt, type "control userpasswords2" and press Enter to open the Windows 2000-style User Accounts application." from the above and got the password sorted out, thanks all. start/run sfc/scannow = windows cannot find it. use windows disk, R for recovery console, put in Administrators password, and it just leaves me at the commmand prompt c:windows. Tried sfc/scannow from there and it's an invalid command, couldn't even get chkdsk/f to run from there. You folks sure are fast on the replies here, thanks for the help thus far.
  4. I should have mentioned that I suppose, it is WinXP home sp2 that I'm using. But it's not the log on profile for me (computer admin type as opposed to limited access) that I need the password for. Those "extra" accounts that hide in the background (default user as an example) one of them is called Administrator, I suppose it would normally be used by the IT guy/gal of a company.
  5. Hi all, first time listener, first time caller. Having made the rediculous error of not unplugging my cable while shutting off the firewall to load Norton back in to try and remove a stubborn virus, I ended up with 6 programs I didn't install and 10 stubborn viruses. That's all been cleaned up now, thanks in part to PC-cillin and Avast! (Norton was useless after all that fuss), however I'm getting error messages now that I'd like to fix. I was told I could just shut down all those little processes that you don't actually need to load at start up (and I did), however it would be nice to fix the problem too, and I'm still having problems loading things like regedit and chkdsk using "run" from the START menu. I tried putting my windows disk in to do a repair, but after going though the various menues in the repair program, it asks for the administrators password. I have no passwords. Even for the profiles on the computer I didn't set passwords, let alone the administrator function. Anyone got a work around, or how to reset the password? I couldn't even find how to get to the Administrator options- I thought it was just in mmc tools?
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