ive recently been trying to install some game demos from sites like www.download.com & www.gamespot.com..when they finish downloading, i recive error messages everytime i try to install them. anyway, i rebooted my pc, & when it started up, zone alarm aked if i wanted to give access to msn.exe. i clicked allow, then my computer just rebooted, went to a blue screen, & it said a problem occurred & the system was shutting down. the computer loaded in itself, but straight away, spybot says it has detected an important registry entry that has been changed. it says, entry:KernelFaultCheck. old data: %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS IS & IF I SHOULD ALLOW THE CHANGE? thanks
dougal79 As far as allowing the change to your registry, that is up to you. You may want to allow it for your game demo. See dumprep is a Microsoft error reporting tool. It is used in connection with memory dumps. You can disable it by right clicking on My Computer, selecting Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on the Settings button in Startup and Recovery. In the bottom pane under 'Write debugging information' click on the down arrow and then select 'None' then click OK. Another thing you can try, especially if you are having any trouble loading Windows, is select Start-> Run and type cmd in the box and press enter. The command window will open. You may need to type cd\ and press enter to get to the c:\prompt. Now type "chkdsk c:/f" without quotes and if c is your system drive. If c is not your system drive then type the letter that is your system drive. What this last command is suppose to do is to check your disk for possible errors and fix them. You may need to run these items in safe mode if you can not boot to normal mode. To get to safe mode: As your computer is starting and you hear the POST beeps begin pressing F8 repeatedly. This will bring up an options menu. Choose safe mode and you can run the commands from there. For the second option instead of choosing safe mode choose command prompt only.
