Doing an XP Home repair using recovery disk

buglawton

I can find quite a lot of help on the Web about this but has anyone actually DONE a Windows XP repair successfuly? This is the one where you insert the recovery disk and reinstall all SYSTEM components but it leaves your PROGRAMS and DATA in place (needless to say, will have back up the lot beforehand anyway).

Having to do this as the XP Firewall & Internet is busted after I forcibly removed some rootkit type spyware, and need to learn a faster way to repair than doing a brand new install, in case the same thing happens again.

Zahc

Came across this, it might save you hassle.

Zahc

Aliktren

If you have a backup I'd reinstall every time, at least a reinstall will defrag the hard drive and for sure get rid of any spyware

buglawton

Zahc wrote:

Came across this, it might save you hassle.

Zahc

That item about how to attempt a repair of the XP Firewall on SP2 is right on the button - will try if first cheers.

[ UPDATE ] Well I tried the tools to fix the registry as pointed to by Zahc but they didn't do it for me straight away. Had to do an XP Repair using the Recovery Disk from MS. Wasn't as painful as I had expected and it didn't delete my data or programs. On restarting, still no internet but XP firewall was back - a start! Then I ran the fix tool pointed to by Zahc (thx) and it seemed to fix things enough for dial-up internet to work but not the wireless broadband. After a LOT of ferkling about, I had the idea of turning the WEP encryption off - lo and behold a connection. Then tuned WEP back on... and it all works.