- autoexec and windows xp
- Posted by Matt on May 16th, 2004
Hi,
Is there any way to get and xp machine to use auoexec when you boot up. Its
for a work project and what we want to do is copy a "good" registry into
system32\config every time it boots up because the customer won't be able to
shut the machine down, it'll just get unplugged at the mains which sometimes
corrupts the registry. We've done this on 98 machines for years now but
we've got to move onto xp now.
thanks,
matt.
- Posted by derek / nul on May 16th, 2004
On Sun, 16 May 2004 08:17:58 +0100, "Matt" <matt@hordakNOSPAM.f9.co.uk> wrote:
Its too late then, the registry is already in use.
If you used NTFS, this is unlikely to happen. (on good hardware)
Derek
- Posted by Matt on May 16th, 2004
we've got about 70 on test, only 5 have come up with the same error. They're
running ok, switch it off then switch it back on and it comes up with a
black screen saying something like "windows\system32\config\system is
missing or corrupt Use your windows cd to fix it etc".
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- Posted by derek / nul on May 16th, 2004
Look for hardware problems
On Sun, 16 May 2004 08:43:56 +0100, "Matt" <matt@hordakNOSPAM.f9.co.uk> wrote:
- Posted by Matt on May 16th, 2004
there isn't any obvious problems. All the pc's have exactly the same
hardware and are cloned from the same "master" drive and everything seems to
work fine on them, sound, lan, vga etc etc. On the ones that have errored, I
just re-cloned the hard drive and they've been ok so far.
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- Posted by Duane Arnold on May 16th, 2004
"Matt" <matt@hordakNOSPAM.f9.co.uk> wrote in
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If you're getting the corrupt message on the registry, then it could due
to a couple of situations that can happen on the machine. You trying to
do some kind of fix at boot *jacking* with the registry in an autoexe is
not going to resolve the issue.
You need to search Google or go to the MS Knowledge Base about the
particular corrupt registry message for the proper solution and implement
it.
Duane 
- Posted by Matt on May 16th, 2004
the solution on the ms kb is to boot the windows xp cd into the recovery
console and overwrite the files in the system32\config folder with good
ones. Thats what I want to do every time it boots.
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- Posted by Matt on May 16th, 2004
What is the first file to that is executed to run XP? Maybe I could make a
bootable ntfsdos cd which would copy the system files over and then run
windows, I would just have to leave the cd in the drive all of the time.
Is it ntoskrnl.exe??
matt.
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- Posted by Duane Arnold on May 16th, 2004
"Matt" <matt@hordakNOSPAM.f9.co.uk> wrote in
news:1084701261.80128.0@dyke.uk.clara.net:
Windows XP Professional Resource Kit Book ISBN 0-7356-1974-3 a handy
tool.
This is a brief explanation.
Chapter 27 Troubleshooting Startup and it discusses startup on x86 and
Itanium based systems.
x86
* Power-on self test (POST) phase
* Initial startup phase
* Boot loader phase
* Detec and configure hardware phase
* Kernel loading phase
Ntldr passes the information collected by Ntdetect.com to Ntoskrnl.exe
Ntoskrnl then loads kernel, HAL, and the registry information.
* Logon phase
Itanium
* Power-on self test (POST) phase
* Initial startup and boot manager phase
* Kernel loading phase
IA64ldr.efi loads kernel and registry information
* Logon phase
* Plug and Play device detection phase
Duane
