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<blockquote data-quote="WinXPert" data-source="post: 399405" data-attributes="member: 4591"><p>1. When you do a System Restore, what windows does is replace replace your registry hive with whatever was saved on your saved Restore Point</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Default</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sam</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">System</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Software</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Security</li> </ul><p>in addition to that executables (exe, pif, etc) are also restored. Documents remained untouched.</p><p></p><p>With a successful (or even unsuccessful) restore, your PC will have the registry hives coming from the registry point you have chosen.</p><p></p><p>2. Don't have a Vista to check for that specific file. But here's a workaround with that. If you have your Vista installer DVD, locate the file Winload.ex_. Expand that one at the CMD prompt</p><p></p><p><strong>EXPAND <em>SourcePath\</em>WINLOAD.EX_ <em>DestinationPath\</em>WINLOAD.EXE</strong></p><p></p><p>Try replacing the corrupt/missing winload.exe with the one you expanded.</p><p></p><p>3. Best you can do with that is perform a CHKDSK and do some scanning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WinXPert, post: 399405, member: 4591"] 1. When you do a System Restore, what windows does is replace replace your registry hive with whatever was saved on your saved Restore Point [LIST] [*]Default [*]Sam [*]System [*]Software [*]Security [/LIST] in addition to that executables (exe, pif, etc) are also restored. Documents remained untouched. With a successful (or even unsuccessful) restore, your PC will have the registry hives coming from the registry point you have chosen. 2. Don't have a Vista to check for that specific file. But here's a workaround with that. If you have your Vista installer DVD, locate the file Winload.ex_. Expand that one at the CMD prompt [B]EXPAND [I]SourcePath\[/I]WINLOAD.EX_ [I]DestinationPath\[/I]WINLOAD.EXE[/B] Try replacing the corrupt/missing winload.exe with the one you expanded. 3. Best you can do with that is perform a CHKDSK and do some scanning. [/QUOTE]
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