winme & wininit.exe

[Will Rickards WT]

So my uncle's wireless went in without a hitch.
But he had viruses and spyware and more problematic: a wininit.exe error on startup. He is running windows ME.

So I cleaned the viruses - thanks AVG.
But AVG wasn't updating. I had to uninstall and install the latest to get the updates. On the old version there was a pending update that needed to run after a reboot. But it wasn't running.

I thought I heard someone mention a file check utility like ssf or something like that. I don't remember the name. I want to check to make sure all the windows files are there without reinstalling. Is this are utility for this?

 

[Mercutio]

Are you talking about SFC?

 

[Will Rickards WT]

Yes that sounds like it.
But =this knowledgebase article seems to indicate ME doesn't come with it.

 

[Mercutio]

Yet another reason ME is retarded.

 

[blakerwry]

so 98 and 2k came with it so they took it out for ME only to replace it in XP?

hmm....

 

[Will Rickards WT]

Yes I'm deciding how best to approach the matter of replace ME with XP to them. I might suggest 2K instead as they might not need any more ram. XP may slow down their PC though... at least every XP home install I've come across is slow.

 

[sechs]

Turning off the graphic crap amd unnecessary services makes a major difference in performance.

 

[blakerwry]

very true