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ff1324
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January 26th, @12:20AM

[XP Pro] XP Boot.ini strangeness

I threw this question out there in May of '05 and only got a few ideas about it. Here's my boot.ini file:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /forceresetreg /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

What is /forceresetreg?
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PetePuma
How many lumps do you want
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join:2002-06-13
Arlington, VA
Wow, not much out there.

One thing I found seems to imply it dictates how the system will restart itself when you do a Start->Restart.


Barbara Ann
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join:2000-10-17


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January 26th, @01:50AM

reply to ff1324
»www.bitzenbytes.com/index.php?na···&start=0

timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="microsoft windows XP home edition" /forceresetreg /fastdetect

The KB entries are hazy on what to change in the boot.ini in order to correct the KB 314477 (Corrupted ntoskrnl.exe file) problem, and I can't write to the NTFS system on the laptop HD anyway. Web search of "forceresetreg" failed to turn up info on this switch, which seems to force a reset of the registry? The one mention of this switch was a boot.ini file from a fella with a non booting Toshiba, buried in the 200+ line dump of his bootstrap.
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OR

Have you run HijackThis recently...found this...

»ask-leo.com/why_do_i_get_window_···ows.html

Finally found it. Ran HijackThis and noticed the following two entries:

URLSearchHook: SrchHook Class - {44F9B173-041C-4825-A9B9-D914BD9DCBB3} - blank (file missing)

URLSearchHook: (no name) - ~CFBFAE00-17A6-11D0-99CB-00C04FD64497} - (no file)

I instructed HijackThis to fix these two, which it does by resetting the registry value to the default value.

kywirelessgu
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join:2004-01-25
Nicholasville, KY
clubs:
reply to ff1324
just remove it and see if it screws anything up!


koma3504
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join:2004-06-22
North Richland Hills, TX

said by kywirelessgu See Profile :

just remove it and see if it screws anything up!
The Op should make a image of the Drive just in case it wont boot after altering it.
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