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General Computer Support / Re: Windows Activation/Update error 80070424 with KB971033

« on: June 26, 2015, 02:33:21 pm »

Thanks Boggin I tried the sticky key thing but it didn't work, then my machine booted up ok into Windows, so whatever the generic error BSOD was and the black screen/cursor must have been intermittent and righted itself  . I do have Intel drivers (which I need to check are up to date!), but as I haven't installed any updates yet that KB isn't on my machine yet...

Anyway, here are the Event logs for the chkdsk scans on my 2 drives (same HDD) : weird how copying the log duplicates the text - I've deleted the duplicates! 

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Date:          23/06/2015 18:04:31
Event ID:      1001
Task Category: None
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      T-PC
Description:


Checking file system on E:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Data Drive T.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.                         

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
The attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x1 should be after
attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x2 in file 0x22696.
The attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x1 should be after
attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x2 in file 0x58d96.
  501504 file records processed.                                         

File verification completed.
  1585 large file records processed.                                   

  0 bad file records processed.                                     

  0 EA records processed.                                           

  0 reparse records processed.                                     

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
  508730 index entries processed.                                       

Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.                                       

  0 unindexed files recovered.                                     

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
  501504 file SDs/SIDs processed.                                       

Cleaning up 7 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 7 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 7 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
  3614 data files processed.                                           

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  37570472 USN bytes processed.                                           

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
  501488 files processed.                                               

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
  14759441 free clusters processed.                                       

Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

 192262136 KB total disk space.
 132395260 KB in 418055 files.
    218092 KB in 3615 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    611020 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  59037764 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  48065534 total allocation units on disk.
  14759441 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 a7 07 00 32 6f 06 00 47 ae 0c 00 00 00 00 00  ....2o..G.......
fa 5a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .Z..............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Wininit" Guid="{206f6dea-d3c5-4d10-bc72-989f03c8b84b}" EventSourceName="Wininit" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>4</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-06-23T17:04:31.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>1643293</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>T-PC</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Date:          23/06/2015 18:04:31
Event ID:      1001
Task Category: None
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      T-PC
Description:


Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.                         

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
  870912 file records processed.                                         

File verification completed.
  1672 large file records processed.                                   

  0 bad file records processed.                                     

  0 EA records processed.                                           

  92 reparse records processed.                                     

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
  937724 index entries processed.                                       

Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.                                       

  0 unindexed files recovered.                                     

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
  870912 file SDs/SIDs processed.                                       

Cleaning up 369 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 369 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 369 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is compacting the security descriptor stream
  33407 data files processed.                                           

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  34620304 USN bytes processed.                                           

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
  870896 files processed.                                               

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
  7567363 free clusters processed.                                       

Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

 104906751 KB total disk space.
  73532832 KB in 205246 files.
    128836 KB in 33410 indexes.
         4 KB in bad sectors.
    975627 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  30269452 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  26226687 total allocation units on disk.
   7567363 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 4a 0d 00 4a a4 03 00 db 7c 06 00 00 00 00 00  .J..J....|......
2d 12 00 00 5c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  -...\...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Wininit" Guid="{206f6dea-d3c5-4d10-bc72-989f03c8b84b}" EventSourceName="Wininit" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>4</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-06-23T17:04:31.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>1643292</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>T-PC</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows Activation/Update error 80070424 with KB971033

« on: June 26, 2015, 08:53:44 am »

Thanks guys, I had a feeling it might be in there somewhere, don't often go in there really. As soon as I can get back into Windows I'll dig it out and post - while downloading updates yesterday it BSOD'd with a 124 error, just started it back up again now and all I have is a black screen and a cursor, Noooooo! 

Guess I'll have to go into the RE and do a system restore - that's what I had to do last time this happened, sigh...  will post back when I can get to the event log.....

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows Activation/Update error 80070424 with KB971033

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:01:36 pm »

Ok thanks Shane, I've recently (yesterday or the day before) done a chkdsk/r on both my drives (C: the OS, and E: my data, but same HDD) - as these are in dos before Windows boots where will the results of these scans be, in the Event Viewer? I can post these if that's the case, or rescan tomorrow when I next boot up and post the results of a fresh scan, whichever you think best...?

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General Computer Support / Windows Activation/Update error 80070424 with KB971033

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:16:08 am »

Hi all,

Does anyone have any knowledge about the topic subject? After my recent move and hiatus and earlier trojan then system image restore I decided to do another repair install rather than a clean install on my W7 x64 SP1 Dell desktop, just to see if I could get it updated. So far WU does appear to be checking (sometimes!) for updates (190 found) but haven't got round to installing any yet. I've also removed and reinstalled the .NET framework following Shane's advice on another thread, and is all on and verified and fine  I also installed a hotfix rollup from one of the other threads (maybe jraju's?) which apparently MS rolled out but didn't advertise, and this went on ok.

So I had a fairly fresh repair install system, did an ALLInOne repair to try and reset everything with Shane's program, then at some point yesterday a pop up appeared saying my copy of Windows wasn't genuine - like WTF!!  An option to 'resolve online now' was used which lead to a download of WindowsActivationUpdate.exe, which I installed, but no change. slui.exe wouldn't work and gave an error of 80070424, as did WU. The System page on Control Panel said Windows wasn't activated, although Belarc gave the correct product key! Attempted validation using the correct product key (which I also did on the repair install) gave me the same error again and said it couldn't be validated or completed. 

Googling this error lead me to issues with KB971033, which was present on the Installed Updates list and went on yesterday (surprise!), presumably while I was checking for updates? I never got as far as installing any myself so it's slipped on by itself somehow  . One of the "fixes" I found is to uninstall this update, so I've done that, rebooted, and all seems ok now - the product key is showing on System, slui is working and saying Acivation was successful, and WU is checking without giving me the 80070424 error, so I was just wondering if anyone had any experience of this or how to prevent it, or whether 971033 is going to keep re-installing itself and throwing up this validation error? It IS a genuine OEM copy of Windows so this is a new one on me...

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General Computer Support / Re: [SOLVED] Media Player Classic won't work any more!

« on: June 24, 2015, 05:42:07 am »

Think I follow what you're saying, but I've never installed mpc, I just run it as a stand-alone prog from my Downloads folder. I've never normalised my audio (that I recall!) or been asked/prompted to either, don't think I'd even know how to! 

Audio sounds fine though, and it seems to play to the same level of volume as WMP and MediaMonkey with the same tracks so I'm guessing it's all probably ok on that score 

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General Computer Support / Re: [SOLVED] Media Player Classic won't work any more!

« on: June 24, 2015, 05:21:32 am »

Yeah I've been using it myself for a couple of years now - great little piece of kit and very light on resources    Never had a problem with it before so no idea why it suddenly went awry on both my machines at the same time when I didn't change anything, but glad to have them back running again 

Don't know what you mean by "do not adjust more than 100 percent audio, as it will repair your speakers in time" though - how can I adjust my speakers to more than 100% when that's all they go up to???! 

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General Computer Support / Re: Media Player Classic won't work any more!

« on: June 24, 2015, 04:58:35 am »

Ok, well the Playback>Output page doesn't have an Audio Renderer option on either of my machines!  Unless you mean the DirectShow Audio drop down? Ah, just tried changing that from System Default, which you would think would work and is the setting on my W8.1 machine, to Default DirectSound Device, and also to Speakers and DirectSound: Speakers and it now works fine again!

Thanks, no idea how this setting changed to stop it working but it seems to be good again now, cheers 

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General Computer Support / Re: Media Player Classic won't work any more!

« on: June 24, 2015, 04:35:54 am »

Ah ok - tried that and the error goes back to Audio Switcher: Out!  and the MPEG-1 Audio Decoder: Out message is there as well underneath it...

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General Computer Support / Re: Media Player Classic won't work any more!

« on: June 24, 2015, 04:26:10 am »

Not sure what you mean - I unchecked the Audio Switcher and left it unchecked, and checked All of the Internal Filters (including the default ones which were already ticked) - it's still like that but I've closed it down, re-opened it and looked and they're all still ticked! 

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General Computer Support / Re: Media Player Classic won't work any more!

« on: June 24, 2015, 04:05:31 am »

Ok, MPEG-1 Audio was already enabled but I've now enabled every codec on the list on both the Source and Transform filters and I'm still getting the same error whatever music-only file I try to open, either from the Favorites list or from the Open menu... Any ideas?

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General Computer Support / Re: Media Player Classic won't work any more!

« on: June 24, 2015, 03:33:51 am »

Ha, thanks guys. I did try some of the google threads I found but they either weren't applicable or weren't resolving the issue, which is why I posted here to try and short circuit the investigation in case anyone had a similar experience and knew a possible solution.

Ok well the plot thickens - my W8.1 laptop is now ok, and I've done nothing to it! Strange, I never altered anything in the first place to stop it working (as far as I know) but now it's fine again so no worries there. The W7 is a different matter however. I tried your setting jraju, and the error went but has now been replaced by a different error - MPEG-1 Audio Decoder: Out. It will play videos however, including the accompanying sound, but won't play any type of music-only file, mp3, wma, wav etc.

I've gone through All the settings looking at both machines at the same time and they're identical, so it's not the settings at fault, yet something is preventing the W7 one working - the files all play on WMP and Media Monkey though... 

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General Computer Support / [SOLVED] Media Player Classic won't work any more!

« on: June 23, 2015, 05:42:35 am »

Hi all,

I use the old mplayerc on both my old W7 desktop and my W8.1 laptop, to reduce cpu/mem usage etc as they both struggle at times, and recently (this week) it has stopped working on my W7. Thinking it was a problem with my PC (I've had lots, see my other thread on WU etc!) I tried the one on my W8.1 and found this to be exactly the same!  I've tried re-downloading it from one or two different sources and it seems to be the same whichever one I use.

I've tried playing with the settings following similar threads on this topic and it doesn't seem to work, unless I've missed something.. Does anyone have any ideas on how to cure this or is it now obsolete? The error I am getting is AudioSwitcher:Out and Cannot render the file...

Thanks

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 31, 2015, 01:00:03 am »

Thanks wg, that all sounds rather interesting and possibly helpful as well 

I've not seen that WU error message before (surprisingly, as I've seen quite a few others!  ), but I've definitely had similar issues to the posts in the links you've provided - .NET, updating anything from MS etc - and I have used the FixWU tool several times, but never with any (apparent) success. Not sure if my machine has an IRRT though, but it does have Intel drivers on it, which as far as I'm aware are up to date... 

Anyway, I'm still in the middle of massive upheaval at the moment and haven't even hooked my Dell up for a couple of days now, but when things calm down and I get some time I'll look into these again on the desktop and see if I can get anywhere with them before I go down the full backup/clean install route. 

Cheers 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems [Solved]

« on: May 27, 2015, 08:26:59 am »

Ah I see, thanks. If there's an option to keep it I might just do that, bit wary about the whole process to be honest, as I've never done it and don't want to cock it up, but it does look like it needs doing. 

In the absence of a bootable machine though, and yours over the weekend, and due to exhausting my attempts to get the machine to boot (think the MBR had somehow been screwed up, maybe by the "trojan" or whatever, but nothing I found and tried worked - even fixes marked "this works for everyone"!    ) I've decided to restore the system image for now, just so I can have a working machine which I can get a full program list off of and also do a full file check and backup in Windows (rather than more painfully with dos in the RE!).

So I'm now back to my pre-Repair install state, with non-working WU, and just checked MBAM and it's Still found the same trojan in rpcss.dll+ that it found last week, after all the updates etc!  not sure how if the machines been rolled back, and MBAM is the only scanner that picked it up! Even Virustotal says it's clear (0/57, including with Malwarebytes!), and looking online it appears that this file isn't even needed for Windows 7 (the rpcss.dll that is, I can't find any reference online to a .dll+!! ), so I'm wondering if it was maybe a false positive? It's quarantined and gone though (apparently, I had to delete it manually even though MBAM said it had quarantined it...) so hopefully no issues there... 

Anyway I'm going to run all the scans I can to be safe, update as much software as I can (including Windows if it will), then I've got my move to sort out and then a huge backload of work to tackle as well just to try and keep afloat.  It's probably going to be a couple of weeks at least before I get round to getting back here to doing a clean install and the stuff mentioned that's needed before that, so I'm going to mark this as Solved (as it essentially was as far as the updates and missing service package files were concerned before I restored the system image) and then if I have any issues or questions with the install I'll post a new topic at that point.

And before I forget or sign off temporarily (though I'll still be around), many big Thanks again Shane & Boggin and all on here who have helped, greatly appreciate it all 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 22, 2015, 08:02:19 am »

Ok, thanks for that Shane. Tried a couple of other things I found but still no joy - I can't understand why replacing the registry hive from the day of the repair install hasn't worked - that should be fresh!  Maybe it's not the registry, I've tried a bootsect repair as well but that's made no difference either. Chkdsk is still stuck trying to correct incorrect index entries on my E: drive as well, but I can't get that to complete, and manually deleting the files and folders causing the problem isn't working either as an error box pops up saying the file is corrupt and unreadable so to run chkdsk!!!    going round in circles...

Unfortunately as I'm in the middle of trying to sort a house move out next week, I don't have a lot of time to mess about trying loads of different fixes, and to do the clean install I'll need to backup everything manually via the dos prompt in RE, so it might have to wait, unless I can squeeze it in before I move.. 

I've never done a clean install/factory reset before, will the failed chkdsk error/corrupt file/folder/sector cause problems with the install? As you're saying not to format the drive I'm wondering whether this could be an issue. Also if I'm deleting partitions, as well as my E: (data), and OS (D: in RE), there's also a Recovery partition (C: in RE) and a Hidden 14Mb FAT32 partition showing up in diskpart - which of these do I mess with & delete if I get to the install?? I don't want to remove something that I can never get back again and screw it up even more! 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 21, 2015, 03:03:50 am »

Ok, thanks. You may be right, that may be the final solution - I can't get it out of the repair loop at the moment and have tried several fixes I've tried online, to no avail. Currently running a scan from my Seagate tools repair disk while I plod on googling possible causes and solutions, joy....   

If anyone else has any experience of this problem or knows what to do or try feel free to jump in and let me know! 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 20, 2015, 04:38:22 pm »

Hmm, well I've backed up the Software file and copied the Regabckup version in, and it's made no difference - just goes back into the Startup repair loop which can't repair! Still saying Problem Signature 07 Corrupt Registry; Problem Signature 05 ExternalMedia - any ideas on that? Not sure what else I can try as the other Regbackup files are all the same as the ones in Config..... 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 20, 2015, 04:08:12 pm »

No it didn't say Shane, it was just a details pulldown on the Startup repair under the Send/Don't send box, which when you looked at it gave a list of about 10 bits of info like the OS number etc, the 7th just said "Registry corrupt" but no further explanation anywhere 

The backup in the config/regbackup folder is from the 9th - I presume created at the time of the Repair install? Looking at the 5 files, and comparing them to the 5 in the Config folder, the only one that's changed the date/time stamp is the Software file - the others are all identical in both folders. Should I try backing up the Software file and copying the regbackup version?

PS - I do have your registry backup program but haven't used it since I first installed it last year or set it to do anything automatically, my bad in retrospect... 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 20, 2015, 03:41:39 pm »

D'oh - jeez I'm thick sometimes - forgot all about the quality settings on youtube - probably 'cos I never touch them. Anyway I can view everything now, thanks, the only problem is that the latest backup I've done, as I thought, was from the 7th May ie. before the Repair install which was on the 9th. I'm guessing that means I can't use it? Is copying any of the hive from system32\config\regbackup an option as I've done previously?

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 20, 2015, 03:19:02 pm »

Ah, I see - the youtube links, great! Don't know why it won't play on your tweaking page, it plays fine on youtube  the only problem is the video is so low res and the dos prompt picture so blurred that I can't make Anything out on it!  I can hear your voice fine and see the cursor moving around but can't read a thing... Any chance you could write it down and "talk" me through it here please?

It sounds similar to what I've done copying files from the Regback, but I heard mention of a .bat file and I don't know where to find the Tweaking files, I'm guessing in the Program Files or (x86) somewhere, if you could point me in the right direction, thanks.. 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 20, 2015, 02:38:26 pm »

Thanks Shane. Yeah I already found those links, and a couple of others, which is all what I was in the middle of when it crashed  It probably has done something to the registry while scanning - I had two running before it crashed, so something's obviously caused it to fall over  v. not savedthe regisrty correctly as you say.

Anyway, I do have backups from your AIO repair, but I'm not sure if they're from before or after the Repair install - I'm guessing before as I don't think I've run it since (apart from the pre-scan which came back clear). Also I can't view any of those videos on my laptop to see how to do it! It says I need a plugin, but I'm not sure which one as I have Flash player and watch youtube on it regularly 

I have got my machine going in the past by copying the 'system' file in the registry hive from the Regbackup to Config folders in System32 - is that what you're video shows, or similar? I'm currently in a dos prompt in the Repair environment so let me know what to do please and I'll give it a shot 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 20, 2015, 04:11:25 am »

Ok, thanks for that Shane - in that case I'll delete them all  I have 6 of them now - I checked for updates again yesterday and afterwards there was another pending.xml and SFC wouldn't work!  Is it going to do this every time? That's my worry going forward - deleting them isn't the issue but the fact that they're getting created every time I check for updates (I'm guessing!) and then stopping SFC from working or further checking for updates. It wouldn't be so bad if I could just delete them in Windows but the fact I have to go into Repair mode to do it makes it that much more of a pain. Is there any way to stop it doing this?

Other than that though I think I can say it's cured pretty much as the system is up to date and working ok apart from this problem - right now though I have much more pressing issues. First off Malwarebytes found a trojan (Trojan.Zekos.Patched764SP0infecting rpcss.dll+) which it couldn't quarantine, so I rebooted into Safe mode and ran it again and this time it said it had been quarantined. The file is still there however, in Windows\System32, along with rpcss.dll - I've uploaded both to Virustotal and it says they're clear, but MBAM was still picking it up as an infection!  Avast and SAS had both missed this and it must have appeared since the Repair install as I scan with MBAM every week. I also ran RKill, RogueKiller, AdwCleaner, HitmanPro and Spy Hunter and all were clear (ish, apart from some adware or PUPs, but no trojans)

I was in the middle of an ESET scan when the machine hung, then crashed with a BSOD, and now it won't boot at all!  it goes into a Startup Repair loop which it can't get out of - I've tried going into 'Last known good configuration', Safe Mode and others through the F8 key and every time it goes back to Startup Repair, which then Can't repair! Problem Signature 07: Corrupt Registry is showing (although it was fine before and the last SFC scan was clear!), and the Repair scan details Root cause found says 'Startup repair has tried several times but still cannot determine the cause of the problem' (13 repair attempts now)

I have managed to run chkdsk on both D: (the OS) and E: (my data) and d: is coming up clear, so why it won't boot I've no idea, but E: is hanging on trying to correct an index entry on a file. An earlier chkdsk on e: which Did complete said insufficient space to correct the entry errors, yet there are 55Gb of space Free on E:!  SFC can't run, Unable to start, so as it won't boot or complete a repair I'm unsure what else to try - any ideas? And should I start another thread for this or keep it here? (and I do realise it's probably time I got a new HDD but it's not an option just at the mo, if this one is cooked then I do have a portable one I use for my backups that could be of use short term....  )
Cheers

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 17, 2015, 05:49:19 am »

Yep, ran SFC again yesterday and it was still clear  although as no more 'proper' Windows Updates have been installed since I ran the SFCFix (just a couple of IE security updates and a Windows Defender definition) then this is hardly surprising - the acid test will be next month when the new patches are all released! 

Is yours still clear after the fix?

If taking the "Cannot" out hasn't returned anything then the "SR" isn't present in the file you're searching (CBS.log etc) - I ran it on mine and it opened a blank Notepad file (but without the DOS error that the "Cannot" produced), but then my CBS.log is tiny now after the repair and a manual search for "SR" didn't find anything either! I think that's the 'issue' as such - just the fact that it isn't there to be found 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 15, 2015, 05:48:00 pm »

Ah yes, I remember you posting that earlier in my thread - take out the "Cannot" and it will work fine!  not sure where it's come from but it shouldn't be there and gives an error which goes when you take it out. If the notepad file generated is still blank then whatever is inside the [] ("SR" or anything else) hasn't been found

I've noticed KB3022345 on my installed updates list, but it did fail initially and reverted changes on one occasion before it installed, for whatever reason - looks like it might be one of MS's notorious dodgy updates if it's done the same on yours. Glad the SFCFix could be of help anyway - nice to be able to repay all the help in some small way 

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems

« on: May 15, 2015, 03:20:24 pm »

Hi Shane. yeah, sorry it's been such a looooong process and long-winded thread!  but it's been worth the drag and I'm very grateful to yourself and Boggin for all the help and advice offered 

There were a couple of outstanding questions though - to cut a long story short, as I know you're a busy guy with a lot on your plate right now, following an (eventually!) successful repair install the system is now fully updated and your pre-scan has come back clear for the first time ever. SFC is also clear (after a late fix for some new errors using a different program). To save rephrasing what I asked Boggin, which he said to wait for your advice for, I've copied the following couple of paras from my earlier posts, so if you get a minute I'd be interested in what you think the problem and solution might be, cheers 



"Every time I've managed to get any updates on, without fail, the machine would configure and restart ok (apart from once where it said Reverting changes), then upon rechecking it would throw up error 80080005 and not be able to check due to updates pending; also there would be a pending.xml present and SFC scan would not start due to reboot/repair pending, so I've had to go into Repair mode every time and manually rename pending.xml (can't do it within Windows!  ), then SFC scan would work, then I could reboot back into Windows and re-check successfully for updates, where it would always find more! I now have 4 or 5 renamed pending.xml files - do I need to keep them all? There's also a reboot.xml as well, what about this one?

My only question now relates to all the renamed pending.xml files - do I need to keep them? And the reboot.xml in the winsxs folder as well? And I'm a bit wary that every time the monthly updates come around that I'll be in the same boat having to rename the pending.xml and do a double (or more!) reboot and recheck every time - any idea what's causing it to do this or how I can stop it?"