December 13, 1999 05:13 PM

Windows 2000 System File Utilities

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Zubair Alexander
Windows IT Pro
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This week, I discuss a little known but important Windows 2000 (Win2K) feature called Windows File Protection and a related utility known as the System File Checker (SFC). Windows File Protection prevents applications from overwriting or deleting important system files, and SFC ensures that your system files are up to date.

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Anonymous User 2/13/2005 5:41:20 PM

I have used this utility many times.Some time it gives the error the xyz.dll file is corrupted or missing and ask to insert the CD in the CDrom.This work until I have CD Rom.But what I have to do if I have its source(win2k)in the hard disk and i don't have CD Rom.
Thankyou


Ibrahim H Bazarwala 10/17/2003 8:47:14 PM

Hi there!
This was a very good article. I was not aware of the SFC. I do have one question, however. The article stated that when running the SFC utility, if a protected system file has moved, a file with the CORRECT VERSION is replaced. My question is this: What determines the CORRECT version of the appropriate files in the cache? Is that cache compared against something in particular? I'm just wondering if there will be some sort of proactive maintenance I would need to do make sure the correct versioned files are on the machine. any insight would be very much appreciated!

Thanks,
Brad Cameron
American Management Systems, Inc.

Brad Cameron 12/22/1999 8:10:48 AM

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