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by tbwolfe

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Earlier this week in my event viewer on my Windows 200 server I received many Windows File Protection warnings and I lost all the contents of my control panel and I can not access my adding users and groups anymore - on the users & groups it says "Unaable to access the computer "" The error was loading type library/dll. The event viewer warning is as follows "File replacement was attempted on the protected system file C:|winnt\system312520437.cpx. This file was restored to the original version to maintain system stability. The file version of the system file is 0.0.0.1. I have scanned for viruses and found none!!!! How can I resolve this problem?

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by jschein

reinstall SP4... Install it if you have not before. Boot into SAFE MODE Run your virus scanner + adaware or spybot program there. Reboot... Should be back to normal

by joseph moore

My suggestion is for you to boot into Safe Mode, then run:
SFC /SCANNOW
and let System File Checker run and replace anything that has been changed.
Now, are you SURE you are virus free? Some viruses do append themselves to files, and SFC gets angry when this happens, and it will replace the infected files with its cached copies. So, I would keep a viral infection in mind.
Once the SFC scan/replace is done, I also suggest you put on SP4 for Win2K.
Then put on any post-SP4 patches (like the Blaster patch).
And again, checkout our antivirus software. Make sure it's up-to-date. Do a full scan.

hope this helps

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