Repairing XP- MCE

[Guest astrosoup]

I do alot of home PC tech support in a small town. Yesterday I ran across a

computer with Media Center Edition that had a few backdoor Trojans lurking

about on it. I deleted all the malware I could find, but I think one of them

took a little piece of the Operating System with it, because it is showing

some quirky behavior such as repeated unexplained system errors and

occasionally restarting on login. I perused through the event log, but there

is nothing there to indicate a problem.

 

Anyway, when I am sitting in front of the computer again, I will run an "sfc

/scannow". If that doesn't work, I'd just assume fix it with a repair

install, but I am pretty sure the recovery disk is going to make me reformat.

I've read that you can get ahold of install disks for different versions of

XP for $10-$15 sans cd key, but I can't find a place to do so. Is there a MCE

install disk available for low-budget IT guys like me who just need the disk

to reinstall an existing operating system just for the sake of correcting

errors?

[Guest Kelly]

Re: Repairing XP- MCE

 

Hi,

 

So I take it the owner doesn't have the MC CD that came with the system.

Either way if the owner doesn't have a tuner card, etc. you can use XP Pro

just the same. I have done so many of times. Other than that, I haven't

heard of such a site. Good luck.

 

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"astrosoup" <astrosoup@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:C561A780-F488-4BFA-8BF4-86C4A797952B@microsoft.com...

>I do alot of home PC tech support in a small town. Yesterday I ran across a

> computer with Media Center Edition that had a few backdoor Trojans lurking

> about on it. I deleted all the malware I could find, but I think one of

> them

> took a little piece of the Operating System with it, because it is showing

> some quirky behavior such as repeated unexplained system errors and

> occasionally restarting on login. I perused through the event log, but

> there

> is nothing there to indicate a problem.

>

> Anyway, when I am sitting in front of the computer again, I will run an

> "sfc

> /scannow". If that doesn't work, I'd just assume fix it with a repair

> install, but I am pretty sure the recovery disk is going to make me

> reformat.

> I've read that you can get ahold of install disks for different versions

> of

> XP for $10-$15 sans cd key, but I can't find a place to do so. Is there a

> MCE

> install disk available for low-budget IT guys like me who just need the

> disk

> to reinstall an existing operating system just for the sake of correcting

> errors?

[Guest astrosoup]

Re: Repairing XP- MCE

 

I'll take a closer look at the recovery CD, but I am not ready to reformat

the machine just yet, so I may have to hold off on the recovery CD option.

 

I hate to downgrade the user to xp pro if I don't have to.

 

I guess my best option is just to purchase a copy of xp MCE. It is just

annoying that I have to purchase a license for the operating system just so I

can fix an already licensed copy of it.

 

thanks or your help.

-adam

[Guest Kelly]

Re: Repairing XP- MCE

 

Hi,

 

MCE is XP-Pro - the main difference is that MCE handles multimedia

interfaces.

 

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All the Best,

Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

 

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

 

SupportSpace

http://www.supportspace.com/pages?aiu=kellyskorner

 

"astrosoup" <astrosoup@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:6CF52947-BF22-4886-B8C5-C7F7FAD79227@microsoft.com...

> I'll take a closer look at the recovery CD, but I am not ready to reformat

> the machine just yet, so I may have to hold off on the recovery CD option.

>

> I hate to downgrade the user to xp pro if I don't have to.

>

> I guess my best option is just to purchase a copy of xp MCE. It is just

> annoying that I have to purchase a license for the operating system just

> so I

> can fix an already licensed copy of it.

>

> thanks or your help.

> -adam