After installing IE7, I keep getting an error on startup, before the login
dialog loads. winlogon.exe: "The file or folder C:\$Secure is corrupted and
unreadable. Please use chkdisk to fix this error". I couldn't find the folder
C:\$Secure. Attempted a System Restore. Got the error "C:\$Secure is
corrupted and unreadable. Please use chkdisk to fix this error" in the system
tray. Thought System Restore was somehow corrupted and turned it off on all
drives. Now it's disappeared from the Control Panel and My Computer
properties. Chkdsk runs on every startup and I keep getting the C:\$Secure is
corrupted error. Would appreciate any help, thanks!

First thing to do is restore the Restore function and manually make a
restore point.

You could then search the registry for the reference to "$Secure" and edit
it out.

I am assuming that you have set chkdsk to run at each boot rather than it
being an unwanted side-effect of your attempt to restore the system.

HTH,
ern.

"Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks, but System Restore couldn't be restarted, even manually from the
management console. Finally had to restore from a previous backup.

I didn't set chkdsk to run, I think it ran because Windows somehow thought
\$Secure was corrupted. Ran a registry search but couldn't find any keys with
$Secure.

Guess I won't be messing with IE7 anytime soon.

Thanks anyway!


"ernie" wrote:

Ok, thanks for the feedback and good luck,
ern.

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