HI,
I was basically following some of the advice in the above video and decided to rename the win32k.sys file. Problem was that Windows wouldn't boot after that. I do remember that if you did this in XP the file would be replaced via the dll cache so I didn't think anything of it and just did it.
Why does Windows 7 not do the same thing?
My second problem was getting back in and I have a few questions about this. I had a number of utils amongst them were Ultimate boot / Hirens dos boot etc.
I thought all I need is a dos prompt to get to the file and rename it back. However, not one of the utils I tried (that gave me a prompt) was able to allow me to access any of the drives. I thought this might be that the dos versions didn't recognise NTFS so I tried NTFSforDOS which listed my drives and their respective letters but still I could not switch to the drive. eg. typing "D:" would give me "drive does not exist" even though I had a list showing the drives and partitions.
I remain somewhat confused about this but the Ultimate boot CD is quite old and so was the Hirens. Can anyone explain my predicament and if I using a current version of Ultimate boot will solve the problem?
Luckily I had a Norton Ghost recovery disk to hand and a reasonably recent one-time-backup so I finally replaced the win32k.sys that way but it may still be corrupt so I am back to step one.
I was basically following some of the advice in the above video and decided to rename the win32k.sys file. Problem was that Windows wouldn't boot after that. I do remember that if you did this in XP the file would be replaced via the dll cache so I didn't think anything of it and just did it.
Why does Windows 7 not do the same thing?
My second problem was getting back in and I have a few questions about this. I had a number of utils amongst them were Ultimate boot / Hirens dos boot etc.
I thought all I need is a dos prompt to get to the file and rename it back. However, not one of the utils I tried (that gave me a prompt) was able to allow me to access any of the drives. I thought this might be that the dos versions didn't recognise NTFS so I tried NTFSforDOS which listed my drives and their respective letters but still I could not switch to the drive. eg. typing "D:" would give me "drive does not exist" even though I had a list showing the drives and partitions.
I remain somewhat confused about this but the Ultimate boot CD is quite old and so was the Hirens. Can anyone explain my predicament and if I using a current version of Ultimate boot will solve the problem?
Luckily I had a Norton Ghost recovery disk to hand and a reasonably recent one-time-backup so I finally replaced the win32k.sys that way but it may still be corrupt so I am back to step one.