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Shane:
I am curious if the security catalog database being corrupt could cause all these errors. Such as pulling the hash or digital signature of those mum files is pulled from the security catalog database (Where windows keeps track of the .cat files) the cat files hold the hash information of the files, in this case the mum files and even in the cbs log you posted it shows that the hash for some wav files and others are bad, so it would have pulled that info from the cat files, but if they where messed up it would give all kinds of problems.

A repair install would fix this as the cat database would be rebuilt, I also could make a tool that scanned and added all cat files to the database on the system that had a valid digital cert on them. That is something I need to test, I think I will go and destroy the cat database on a test build of windows and see what happens :-)

There is also a command that can be used to test and verify the cat database, could you try this and let me know how it goes?
http://www.gunnalag.com/2011/04/21/repair-and-verify-system-catalog-database-integrity/

Shane

mal23:
Hi Shane , followed the link but was not really able to understand what to do, ,getting to the limit of my ability. Copy the script into cmd but it was not recognised.I will be doing a repair install later this week. If this fails I will do a full factory reset. I think the problems started some while ago when I removed (with difficulty) comodo.
Malcolm.

Shane:
OK, before you do the repair install do this.

When it comes to putting commands into a cmd.exe window you have to do it one line at a time :wink:

So open a cmd.exe as administrator and then when it is open put in

net stop cryptsvc

Then hit enter, it should stop that service, now put in

esentutl /g %systemroot%\System32\catroot2\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}\catdb

then hit enter, then once it is done take a screen shot of that for me and post it so I can see what it says :-)

Shane

mal23:
Hi Shane,
Screen shot.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Malcolm>esentutl /g %systemroot%\System32\catroot2\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-
85E5-00C04FC295EE}\catdb

Extensible Storage Engine Utilities for Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
Version 6.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Initiating INTEGRITY mode...
        Database: C:\Windows\System32\catroot2\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC2
95EE}\catdb
  Temp. Database: TEMPINTEG3876.EDB

Checking database integrity.

                     Scanning Status (% complete)

          0    10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90  100
          |----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
          ...................................................


Integrity check successful.

Operation completed successfully in 1.747 seconds.


C:\Users\Malcolm>

Crpto was stop before.

Boggin:
@ Shane - Malcolm is going to try an offboot sfc /scannow first before the reinstall which is why I've posted the instructions, as it came up in a PM conversation when he PM'd me his address so that I can send him the install disks.

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