Odd line in MSconfig after installing officeXP.

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Falaanla Marr

I AM HOT CHIX

posted 02-13-2002 01:12:57 AM

Anyone else ave this line in their MSconfig (running WinXP pro here)

dumprep 0 -k

Im wondering if its some new virus or somethin, i dunno WTF it is. it also made a "prefetch" file, dunno what its talkin bout.

Virus Check came up clean on it...

Im new to this NT based system crap, so i dont know it like i do the 9x line

Fal

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Black

The Outlaw Torn

posted 02-13-2002 01:27:25 AM

YOU'RE FUCKED OMG OMG OMG OMG>>>1@#!

Time was never on my side.
So on I wait my whole lifetime.

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Bajah

posted 02-13-2002 02:20:27 AM

You have 0 dumb preps.

You need to hit a big city. Lots of dumb, preppy people all over the place.

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Led

*kaboom*

posted 02-13-2002 02:52:25 AM

My school had lots of big, dumb jocks.

Which all cried exactly the same when they got their shins bashed by a hockey stick.

I miss floor hockey in PE

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Random Insanity Generator

Condom Ninja El Supremo

posted 02-13-2002 03:57:38 AM

Probally a report dumper that MS uses to compile a conveinent file so that they can have all the info about your machine when they request it....

You agreed to that EULA.... gotta live up to it...

(Wild shot in the dark here. )

* NullDevice kicks the server. "Floggings will continue until processing power improves!"
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Drysart

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posted 02-13-2002 05:47:47 AM

dumprep runs on boot if your system crashed without shutting down on the run before. It takes the dump file generated by the kernel and generates a crash report from it.

It's not a part of Office XP, it's part of Windows.

[ 02-13-2002: Message edited by: Drysart ]

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Prometheus

Pancake

posted 02-13-2002 06:02:31 AM

Prometheus
"Forethought"

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Falaanla Marr

I AM HOT CHIX

posted 02-13-2002 09:13:58 AM

quote:
And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Drysart was all like:
dumprep runs on boot if your system crashed without shutting down on the run before. It takes the dump file generated by the kernel and generates a crash report from it.
It's not a part of Office XP, it's part of Windows.

Thats what I was thinking Drys.

Thing is, My system hasnt crashed for afew days now (DAOC managed to bring it down the other night)

The line is still in my MSconfig file, though

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Falaanla Marr

I AM HOT CHIX

posted 02-13-2002 09:36:15 AM

See, I just tried removing this from my msconfig file, but it seems to wanna run every time I boot up now. If I turn it off, it turns itself back on.

Thanks for an answer though, Drys

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Kanid

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posted 02-13-2002 11:07:33 AM

If you look in MSINFO32, under Software Environment, Startup Progams, it will list everything running in MSCONFIG Startup Group and the registry location to remove it.

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Falaanla Marr

I AM HOT CHIX

posted 02-13-2002 11:22:20 AM

Just deleted the key from the registry, rebooted.

Its back in the registry.

Thats why I think its some odd sort of virus -- It wasnt there before, it is now. If I try to get rid of it, it comes back. My computer is NOT crashing each reboot either, its getting shut down properly. Windows doesnt give me "The system has recovered from an error blablabla and doesnt show me anything on bootup, it just looks like it boots normally.

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Kanid

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posted 02-13-2002 11:38:49 AM

Can you boot into Safe Mode okay?

If this only appeared after installing OfficeXP, have you tried removing OfficeXP?

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Kanid

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posted 02-13-2002 11:45:39 AM

Dumprep is related to a registry error btw. The key must be located and deleted physically from the registry to be removed permanently.

One thing you can try is booting to command prompt only and run a "scanreg /restore" and trying going back to an older registry (before you had a problem)

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Falaanla Marr

I AM HOT CHIX

posted 02-13-2002 11:59:42 AM

quote:
And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Kanid was all like:
Dumprep is related to a registry error btw. The key must be located and deleted physically from the registry to be removed permanently.
One thing you can try is booting to command prompt only and run a "scanreg /restore" and trying going back to an older registry (before you had a problem)

Thats the odd thing. my computer is 100% functional.

I can boot fine, use the comp fine, all that.

I just dont like somethin bein there that i dun want there *grin*

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