missing or corrupt files

I had this on a laptop PC that had WinXP installed with - dare I say - a
program that .... how can I put this?... by-passes the activation process
:-)
I should quickly point out - in case Mr Gates is taking time out from
counting his billions, I was so sick of this I reloaded WinME on it!

It could be failing hardware though.

Ron


"scott moberg" wrote in message
...
On a normal bootup using xp professional, got
message "missing or corrupted file: \windows\system32
\config\system". what are my options? thank you.