Recovery Console doubt ... lps pls help me out

[pspudupi]

i know that Recovery Console can be accessed via Windows XP SP3 CD on Windows XP Operating System with out SP3.

In case i replace some corrupted important system files with the ones in Windows XP SP3 CD using R Console, the file version of the system file will be new. Will it function properly ?

lemme give an EXAMPLE ..... if i replace the old explorer.exe with version

6.0.2600.0 (without any SP)

with the new

6.0.2900.5512 (SP3)

.... will i hav any problems ? this is just an xample ... i am asking u in general for all system files that usually get corrupt like NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, shell32.dll, msgina.dll, winlogon.exe, cmd.exe etc .....

[Volatus]

Add msvcrt.dll to that list... seems program installers lean a little heavily on SFC to detect and restore that file when it gets replaced by an older version. I've had 3 computers so far give a BSOD just before the login screen appears saying the winlogon process terminated unexpectedly. Quite a bit of detective work went into figuring out the cause of that. I found the solution when it mysteriously happened to a virtual machine I was working in. I mounted its drive and found that msvcrt.dll was replaced with an older version (6.x instead of the 7.x that WinXP requires - IIRC). Replacing that single file fixed the BSOD and I was happy.

Anyway, be careful with file versions... you may be OK providing a slightly higher version (5.2.x over 5.1.x, for example), but large differences will cause large problems. Even small differences may end up causing small problems