[Albert Lionheart]

No Donna, it is Latin. Is it not really that rude; in the USA in is much the same as a single digit gesture!

Babk on thread (I am possessive about this, not dative)

I am sick and tired of watching that s odding chkdsk run through the process just so I can catch the last 5 seconds to check the bad sector count. No really, I have had enough of it
Any ideas if there is a way to get this to generate a log??

PS: Carpe puella has a certain ring to it, perhaps?

[Blackmirror]

Yes check admin tools



You can find it in the event viewer, look at the Winlogon entry.

[Albert Lionheart]

Crikey Donna, you are not just a gorgeous bird in the shower, you do IT too! Coo!

[Blackmirror]

You are welcome lol

[Albert Lionheart]

Is that an invitation, Donna? Can it wait?, I am kneeling in front of Dotty at the moment, waiting for the next instruction.

[wladicus]

Originally Posted by Albert Lionheart

Is that an invitation, Donna?

Do you think she got the Carpe puella Albert?

[Albert Lionheart]

No Walt - too easily distracted by chickens. Ah me, oy veh!

[Dotty]

Originally Posted by Albert Lionheart

Is that an invitation, Donna? Can it wait?, I am kneeling in front of Dotty at the moment, waiting for the next instruction.

you may need a manual

[Albert Lionheart]

My knees hurt - been down here too long. Bit like a flipping penance!

Originally Posted by Blackmirror

Yes check admin tools



You can find it in the event viewer, look at the Winlogon entry.

Oi Donna
there ain't no winlogon entry in my set of Admin tool's event viewer - naff all!

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by Albert Lionheart

Is that an invitation, Donna? Can it wait?, I am kneeling in front of Dotty at the moment, waiting for the next instruction.

Well i dont share
google man

[Albert Lionheart]

Not sure Dotty is up for a menage a trois either, but please please pretty please tell me where you found that as I cannot see it.

[Albert Lionheart]

TFTT
Start early today:
We have seen the effects of visiting P2P music share sites before - this time the culprit was iMesh which spawned a whole load of trojans onto a machine that was so bad I almost formatted the thing and started again. When it did boot it was very very slow to get to the desktop.
I removed the hard drive and connected it to a wksps machine I use for the purpose and used Kaspersky to scan the drive - several bucketfuls of nasties cleared out there which enabled me to refit the drive and reboot the thing relatively cleanly. A quick burst with HiJackThis found the rest and enabled me to clean everything away.
Lesson - another reminder about the dangers of fishing for your favourite tracks in P2P music share sites.

[Blackmirror]

When chkdsk runs at boot time or from the recovery console, it creates this file c:\bootex.log. However you will only see this file if boot-time chkdsk is interrupted or your are using the recovery console. When Windows next boots it copies any c:\bootex.log it to an entry in the *Application* Event log, helpfully titled "WINLOGON". The Bootex.log file is then deleted. For errors in areas allocated to files, the message gives you an "offset", which I take to be of the bad disk sector but it doesnt say in bytes, sectors or what, and it tells you the file affected. For errors in unallocated areas, it tells you nothing (except there was one). There's also a hex data block associated with this but no information available to interpret it.

XP Chkdsk - where are the results - Computing.Net

[Albert Lionheart]

Thanks Donna - still cannot find either of them! Will stick with it and have another go later.
Tally Ho!

[Blackmirror]

How to run a disk check in Windows XP
it must be there ALbert or is this Vista

If you are unable to run a check from Windows you can boot from a Windows XP CD and run it from the recovery console
1. Boot off of a Windows XP CD. Press R to get to the recovery console.


2. Press 1 to log onto Windows then press Enter. You will need the administrative password to get into to command prompt. If the administrator password was blank press enter.


3. Type: chkdsk /r

4. When the disk check is done type: Exit

5. Take the Windows XP CD out. Windows should start normally. The disk check results are not saved anywhere.

[Albert Lionheart]

That just about answers the question I put up in the first place, as I wanted to see the bad sector count without having to wait for the chkdsk test to finish.

[Albert Lionheart]

TFTT for today (another one, I hear you say?) Yup, sez I
This is about windows updates, so are you sitting comfortably? I shall begin.
Happy machine sitting there working away perfectly - one of mine so what else would you expect - suddenly and without provocation starts hanging and locking up. No BSoDs. Punter calls me in and calls the machine a HOS (Heap o's hite) and wants to know what is going on.
To cut a very long story short, I discovered that a windows update had changed the graphics drivers back to the MS ones and this is what was causing the aggro. Downloaded the latest from NVidia and off if goes. no worries.
User says he did nothing and was not aware of any changes being made. Well he would, wouldn't he!
Lesson - does this mean that Windows updates will replace drivers without reference to the user?

[Blackmirror]

Funny you should say that Albert
It happened to me as well

[Rik]

In furtherance to that, i have noticed that SP3 replaces uxtheme.dll for some unknown reason.
This means that if you have patched your version of XP in order to use custom themes, they will no longer work properly unless you re-apply the patch.

What it the point of that??

Patching windows XP to allow the use of custom themes is not against the law as far as i know!

[Albert Lionheart]

TFTT Monday 6 Oct 08
I have just wasted the best part of 30 mins trying to activate a copy of XP Pro with the code for XP Home.
Lesson - read the label properly and do not jump to conclusions!