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! Windows XP home help (winhlp32 stub) issue.
Hey guys.... Doug Knox helped me with this 2 years ago, and I cannot
duplicte the fix on my sp2 xp home any longer. Best Buy sold the VPR Matrix systems 2 years ago, with a recover disk. Windows xp's scannow function to repair system files will not work, because it does not recognise our recover disks as xp home install disks. They modified the system32 winhlp32 stub file to have a best buy logo on it.. but it breaks windows' xp's help system for files that use it. The filesize of this replaced file is 8kb, and the normal winhlp32 stub file size is 260kb Under xp prior to sp2, you could just replace the sytem file, and all was well, but under the sp2 install, windows file protection replaces the correct file, with it's broken one when replacement is atttempted. In addition, I cannot get the hex hack to disable windows file protection to work, because when I try to copy the changed sfc_os.dll file, I get an error that it is in use, and cannot be replaced. So I can't disable the windows file protection system in sp2, and cannot replace the bad dll file with the good one, because windows just keeps replacing my change with it's installed bad version. Best Buy is no help at all. Is there ANY way to disable the windows file protection system so I can fix this issue? I have the correct stub file, but just can't get it to "stick" in my system 32 folder. I CAN open help files manually, because I associated them with the proper file in another location, but they cannot be opened from within applications themselves. I did fix this on my wife's system prior to updating to sp2, but cannot now fix it on my own system. In other words, HELP! -- Gareee's Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../mainframe.htm Remove Delicious spam to reply |
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! Windows XP home help (winhlp32 stub) issue.
Cleopatra killed the people who brought her bad news. Hopefully I will fare betterg
Your system lacks the tools to 'repair' the system, after setup, and depends on you doing a 'backup' of the system state. SP2 CAN be removed with a System Restore. 875350 - How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from your computer: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=875350 (If I'm wrong about this Best Buy system, and a repair is possible) How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Without Repair, you would need to restore from backup, or do a 'destructive reinstall' (not what you need, of course) My shot at getting there would be a remove of SP2, then hack in the help like this: http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/Helpfix.txt and then re-update to SP2. (You probably have the sp2 update files still on the system, run again from ../softwaredistribution/(some GUID)/update/update.exe ) One final caution... removing sp2 puts the system in a slightly unstable state, and you should only do the help fix, then re-update. Running normally, after an sp2 remove can be unstable. -- Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP) FAQ for MS AntiSpy (browser version) http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm .. "Gareee©" wrote in message ... Hey guys.... Doug Knox helped me with this 2 years ago, and I cannot duplicte the fix on my sp2 xp home any longer. Best Buy sold the VPR Matrix systems 2 years ago, with a recover disk. Windows xp's scannow function to repair system files will not work, because it does not recognise our recover disks as xp home install disks. They modified the system32 winhlp32 stub file to have a best buy logo on it.. but it breaks windows' xp's help system for files that use it. The filesize of this replaced file is 8kb, and the normal winhlp32 stub file size is 260kb Under xp prior to sp2, you could just replace the sytem file, and all was well, but under the sp2 install, windows file protection replaces the correct file, with it's broken one when replacement is atttempted. In addition, I cannot get the hex hack to disable windows file protection to work, because when I try to copy the changed sfc_os.dll file, I get an error that it is in use, and cannot be replaced. So I can't disable the windows file protection system in sp2, and cannot replace the bad dll file with the good one, because windows just keeps replacing my change with it's installed bad version. Best Buy is no help at all. Is there ANY way to disable the windows file protection system so I can fix this issue? I have the correct stub file, but just can't get it to "stick" in my system 32 folder. I CAN open help files manually, because I associated them with the proper file in another location, but they cannot be opened from within applications themselves. I did fix this on my wife's system prior to updating to sp2, but cannot now fix it on my own system. In other words, HELP! -- Gareee's Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../mainframe.htm Remove Delicious spam to reply |
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! Windows XP home help (winhlp32 stub) issue.
Isn't there ANY other way to correct this? I *LITERALLY* had to reinstall xp
home 17 times, with ALL the patches and updates to get my system stable again.. and it takes *4 HOURS* to start the reinstall process, and then add all the windows updates. And then after that, you need to reinstall all your programs again, and I did that 4 times already this monst.. almost 2 FULL WEEKS of xp reinstallation hell. There *really* needs to be a way to turn off the system file protection system, and why they made the change they did makes no sense at all, for IT support, or for gerneral windows xp installation repairs. "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote in message ... Cleopatra killed the people who brought her bad news. Hopefully I will fare betterg Your system lacks the tools to 'repair' the system, after setup, and depends on you doing a 'backup' of the system state. SP2 CAN be removed with a System Restore. 875350 - How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from your computer: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=875350 (If I'm wrong about this Best Buy system, and a repair is possible) How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Without Repair, you would need to restore from backup, or do a 'destructive reinstall' (not what you need, of course) My shot at getting there would be a remove of SP2, then hack in the help like this: http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/Helpfix.txt and then re-update to SP2. (You probably have the sp2 update files still on the system, run again from ../softwaredistribution/(some GUID)/update/update.exe ) One final caution... removing sp2 puts the system in a slightly unstable state, and you should only do the help fix, then re-update. Running normally, after an sp2 remove can be unstable. -- Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP) FAQ for MS AntiSpy (browser version) http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm . "Gareee©" wrote in message ... Hey guys.... Doug Knox helped me with this 2 years ago, and I cannot duplicte the fix on my sp2 xp home any longer. Best Buy sold the VPR Matrix systems 2 years ago, with a recover disk. Windows xp's scannow function to repair system files will not work, because it does not recognise our recover disks as xp home install disks. They modified the system32 winhlp32 stub file to have a best buy logo on it.. but it breaks windows' xp's help system for files that use it. The filesize of this replaced file is 8kb, and the normal winhlp32 stub file size is 260kb Under xp prior to sp2, you could just replace the sytem file, and all was well, but under the sp2 install, windows file protection replaces the correct file, with it's broken one when replacement is atttempted. In addition, I cannot get the hex hack to disable windows file protection to work, because when I try to copy the changed sfc_os.dll file, I get an error that it is in use, and cannot be replaced. So I can't disable the windows file protection system in sp2, and cannot replace the bad dll file with the good one, because windows just keeps replacing my change with it's installed bad version. Best Buy is no help at all. Is there ANY way to disable the windows file protection system so I can fix this issue? I have the correct stub file, but just can't get it to "stick" in my system 32 folder. I CAN open help files manually, because I associated them with the proper file in another location, but they cannot be opened from within applications themselves. I did fix this on my wife's system prior to updating to sp2, but cannot now fix it on my own system. In other words, HELP! -- Gareee's Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../mainframe.htm Remove Delicious spam to reply |
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! Windows XP home help (winhlp32 stub) issue.
The protection is done with what they call a 'hotfix'. These are verified with the Microsoft VeriSign 'certificate'. Not something
you are going to get to use anytime soong. -- Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP) FAQ for MS AntiSpy (browser version) http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm .. "Gareee©" wrote in message ... Isn't there ANY other way to correct this? I *LITERALLY* had to reinstall xp home 17 times, with ALL the patches and updates to get my system stable again.. and it takes *4 HOURS* to start the reinstall process, and then add all the windows updates. And then after that, you need to reinstall all your programs again, and I did that 4 times already this monst.. almost 2 FULL WEEKS of xp reinstallation hell. There *really* needs to be a way to turn off the system file protection system, and why they made the change they did makes no sense at all, for IT support, or for gerneral windows xp installation repairs. "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote in message ... Cleopatra killed the people who brought her bad news. Hopefully I will fare betterg Your system lacks the tools to 'repair' the system, after setup, and depends on you doing a 'backup' of the system state. SP2 CAN be removed with a System Restore. 875350 - How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from your computer: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=875350 (If I'm wrong about this Best Buy system, and a repair is possible) How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Without Repair, you would need to restore from backup, or do a 'destructive reinstall' (not what you need, of course) My shot at getting there would be a remove of SP2, then hack in the help like this: http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/Helpfix.txt and then re-update to SP2. (You probably have the sp2 update files still on the system, run again from ../softwaredistribution/(some GUID)/update/update.exe ) One final caution... removing sp2 puts the system in a slightly unstable state, and you should only do the help fix, then re-update. Running normally, after an sp2 remove can be unstable. -- Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP) FAQ for MS AntiSpy (browser version) http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm . "Gareee©" wrote in message ... Hey guys.... Doug Knox helped me with this 2 years ago, and I cannot duplicte the fix on my sp2 xp home any longer. Best Buy sold the VPR Matrix systems 2 years ago, with a recover disk. Windows xp's scannow function to repair system files will not work, because it does not recognise our recover disks as xp home install disks. They modified the system32 winhlp32 stub file to have a best buy logo on it.. but it breaks windows' xp's help system for files that use it. The filesize of this replaced file is 8kb, and the normal winhlp32 stub file size is 260kb Under xp prior to sp2, you could just replace the sytem file, and all was well, but under the sp2 install, windows file protection replaces the correct file, with it's broken one when replacement is atttempted. In addition, I cannot get the hex hack to disable windows file protection to work, because when I try to copy the changed sfc_os.dll file, I get an error that it is in use, and cannot be replaced. So I can't disable the windows file protection system in sp2, and cannot replace the bad dll file with the good one, because windows just keeps replacing my change with it's installed bad version. Best Buy is no help at all. Is there ANY way to disable the windows file protection system so I can fix this issue? I have the correct stub file, but just can't get it to "stick" in my system 32 folder. I CAN open help files manually, because I associated them with the proper file in another location, but they cannot be opened from within applications themselves. I did fix this on my wife's system prior to updating to sp2, but cannot now fix it on my own system. In other words, HELP! -- Gareee's Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../mainframe.htm Remove Delicious spam to reply |
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