Re: Corrupt files

At 22:56:39 on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 John of Aix opined:-

thoss wrote:
At 21:10:54 on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 John of Aix opined:-

thoss wrote:
At 15:57:38 on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 John of Aix opined:-

I'll add though that (IIRC) under 98 you have to click on the
'options' button and check the two options available otherwise, I
think, it just checks but doesn't do anything in particular.


There is no options button. There are buttons to Scan for altered
files (the default) and Extract one file from installation disc.

In 98 and XP, SFC is System File Checker. Are you perhaps using
Vista?

No I'm on XP. But you're right about the 'checker' bit, I always had
a French system where the equivalent is 'contrôle', hence my error.

There is definitely a button in the 98 version, though it may well
not be called 'options' but Parameters or Advanced or something,
with two options on the interface that opens after clicking on it...

...I've just checked, the button is marked 'settings'.


Indeed there is, and I never said there is not. What I was
challenging was your statement that you have to click on it. If you
just want to do a normal scan. you just accept the default settings
and click Start.

I don't want to argue about it but are you sure? I think the settings
one makes remain once they are fixed, after a first time therefore, but
'as is' I seem to remember it was necessary to set them.


I've just checked in the MS Windows 98 Resource Kit. And this says:
"System File Checker scans the system using a default baseline contained
in a file called Default.sfc. Default.sfc is copied from the Windows 98
installation source..."
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Thoss
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