Subj : Re: build-custom-DLL-at-install-time? To : Rich From : Frank Haber Date : Wed Mar 14 2001 05:42 am From: "Frank Haber" Well, I can understand your calling me on that one, since I was totally sloppy in all particulars. The diagnostic in question is SFC.EXE, not MSCONFIG. The custom-built files include at least two of these three: user.exe gdi.exe krnl386.exe One mskb item that references this is http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q192/8/32.ASP I have direct experience with two users who ran SFC, accepted its advice, and were snookered into replacing user.exe and rendering their machines unbootable. One just swapped out his HD with Sony (laptop). I don't know what the other decided to to. Yes, SFC's another "support tool." It is, however, cited in many magazine articles as a kind of "poor man's Norton." It's a useful tool to recover from bad installs, if you have nothing better. It's a remarkably bugfree, if cumbersome tool - except for that one-time heart-attack-maker cited above. Just say, "update the signature for user.exe and stop bothering me," and you're home free for life. And I suspect the fault for the bug is shared with the OEMs in question, who didn't fully vet their installs with an SFC run. That enough chapter and verse for you? -- -frank --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .