LAN help required

[Raging]

tried to setup a netowk between 2 pc's today(mine and the family pc)

but my pc keeps giving me this error message

but how the hell do i know when this "wmi" got corrupted? lol

i tried system restore to 1 day ago but that didnt work..

the family pc is also giving me errors about it doesnt have the right ip address

please help

cheers.

 

[Phnom_Penh]

Pic's dead...

Try restarting the WMI service?

 

[PV5150]

yep agree with Phnom, and use the OC3D upload facility mate, much more reliable

 

[Ham]

crossover or two patch + router?

 

[Raging]

pic should work now,and photbucket is reliable tbh

and could you tell me how to go about starting the wmi service?

i dont know what it is lmfao

 

[Phnom_Penh]

crossover or two patch + router?

Doesn't matter, won't screw up wmi tbh.

 

[Raging]

Doesn't matter, won't screw up wmi tbh.

thats all good and well but how do i restart wmi???

 

[Phnom_Penh]

thats all good and well but how do i restart wmi???

open up services.msc, and look for windows management instrumentation. See what the status of the service is, and if it's stopped, start it, if it's started, restart it, or try stopping it. It probably won't do much but it's a start .

 

[Raging]

services.msc?

is it in the reg or something?

i need better instructions

cheers.

 

[PV5150]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823775&Product=winxp

 

[Raging]

so what i haveto re install xp?

 

[Dav0s]

that page says u can repair the install raging, when installing windows, do ti as normal, ut when it says " to set up xp opn this partition press enter", press R instead to repair. your settings will e kept, as will your files

 

[nathan]

so what i haveto re install xp?

First and formost, have a butchers at the following page > http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm

failing that, if you have your xp cd, you could try using the sfc /scannow command. Just do the following;

start > run > cmd

type "sfc /scannow" and hit enter. it will now scan you computer for corrupt files and replace them of the disk.

If the above doesnt work, then try a windows repair. Failing that. reinstall.

 

[Raging]

ah i see,i do remember seeing a repair option once

thanks dave

 

[Phnom_Penh]

I like that rebuild idea on the link posted by nathan.

 

[PV5150]

I like that rebuild idea on the link posted by nathan.

Yep agreed, it's rep worthy. Nice one nathan

 

[Phnom_Penh]

net stop winmgmt

* Using Windows Explorer, navigate to %systemroot%\system32\wbem directory and delete the Repository directory. By default, the repository folder is located in the C:\Windows\system32\wbem directory.

* Switch to Command Prompt window, and type:

net start winmgmt

Now that sucks, that's close to what I suggested, just didn't know what to delete (it's always better to know what to delete rather than to guess ).

 

[Raging]

yea but what do you do when your os cd is a miltiple boot cd with 5 os's on it?

:rotfl:

any ideas? that scan/repair thing doesnt have the brains to find my exact os on the cd

anyone know how to extract the xp pro file off the cd and put it onto another cd?

 

[Raging]

ok now i really need help lol

somehow someway i have managed to fubar my windows and when i try to boot up and logon it gives me a few error messages about service.exe,lsass and even explorer so i cant even get to the start menu to do system restore

does the same in safe mode as well.

what do i do?

is there a way to get system restore to load by using "run" in task manager?

please help,i dont know whats going on,windows repair is no ue atal too

thanks in advance.

 

[nathan]

i cannot remember the shortcut to get there. but you can type "msconfig" in the run diaglog box. then you should see the launch system restore button.