Config Inferno!

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Don Graffiti

Hi everybody,

I am using Windows XP Home. A peculiar issue arose few minutes ago, so I
beg for a quick reply. I had to switch a monitor, so I shutdown XP as
usual from the start menu. After rebooting with the new screen, I received
an error message saying:
File corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

I had never heard of such a file. I guess it shouldn't be an important one
either. Yet somehow it got broken. I tried to use the repair function of
the Windows CD but that didn't help, since it only puts you on a command
prompt.
How can I correct this problem? There has been many "forced" shutdowns
such as power failures, but nothing had happened. I looked in the cd but
couldn't find that file. It doesn't even has an extension! What shall I do?

Thanks for your help!
 
Hi Don, that pathway you gave is prety critical to your system, it contains
critical foles like your system accounts manager (SAM) and other vital
files.

If randwulf's idea doesnt work, see if you can reboot with your XP cd and do
a Repair.if that fails, you might want to consider formatting and reloading
XP. You definately need to start shutting down properly or the problems wil
compound, so whatever is causing that problem, ya might want to rend to that
asap.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

you can find alot on Google.
marx404
 
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