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Frutchy:
Hi,

First time here, first time I try to use the Windows Repair TooL.
Trying to fix a friend's computer that would get a KSOD before logon.
Having mounted the drive on my own computer, I found that ThrustedInstaller had disappeared, both as Owner and Access Control Entries.
I fixed that more or less (manually, so not necessarily with the right settings) and was able to boot into Vista again.

After that, CHKDSK found some minor issues.
After some web browsing, I found that often this problem is originally caused by bad Intel Raid Rapid Storage Technology drivers.
Although this machine is not configured as Raid, it does use such drivers. So, I update these.

SFC finds a couple of errors and none of the ways I found to reestablish correct access rights wants to work (secedit to try and create a new security database from a Template, and so on).

Windows Update won't work: It says Service is not running but it is.
Then I discovered that the Cryptsvc is not there.

I guess it still has all to do with wrong acccess rights.

The Windows Repair Tool finds litterally thousands of corrupt files in Windows\Servicing, mentioning Bad Digital Signature.
If this is true, then it will be impossible to manually find and copy all the corrupt files, they are way too many.
In that case, would it be wise to just discard the Windows Update Distribution information?
Would that force Windows Update to newly download all packages or is this the wrong way to solve the issue?

On the other hand, I have difficulties in believing that all these files are really corrupt.
So it might still be an access rights problem...

I would highly appreciate any help here. I'm stuck!
Thanks in advance.

Ronald

Frutchy:
I just read the topic "Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems" which seems similar.

Some additional information: The pre-scan report is 834 Kbytes and reports tons of different packages, unlike the other topic.

The system says it has 356 updates installed for Windows only (so not including Office, .Net Framework, etc).

Yet another question: Would it be possible to reinstall the SP2?
Would that force Windows Update to download all corrupt packages again?

Ronald

Willy2:
- Run Windows Repair first. It restores a whole bunch of Services.

Frutchy:

--- Quote from: Willy2 on April 13, 2015, 09:30:57 am ---- Run Windows Repair first. It restores a whole bunch of Services.

--- End quote ---

Well, that is what I did awaiting some response from the Forum.
It ran for about 75 minutes and the results are promising: Windows Update has started searching for updates again...

I will run further tests and keep you posted.
In particular, I will do the prescan again to see what it has to say now about those tons of currupted files in Windows\sdervicing\packages...

Thanks

Willy2:
- Is Cryptsvc back ? It's important for those "damaged/corrupted" files.

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