How to replace system files?

[husara1]

Hi, i have a question.

I am trying to replace system files, because i am working on a project which i will describe later.

Do you have experience or knowlegde about it?

[jaclaz]

26 minutes ago, husara1 said:

Do you have experience or knowlegde about it?

You talkin' to me?

Yes , it is more than 20 years that I boot systems and replace their files (though not professionally, only as a hobby).

But there are good  system files and bad  system files, so it all depends, if you need advice/help you will need to be specific.

jaclaz 

 

 

[husara1]

17 hours ago, jaclaz said:

You talkin' to me?

Yes , it is more than 20 years that I boot systems and replace their files (though not professionally, only as a hobby).

But there are good  system files and bad  system files, so it all depends, if you need advice/help you will need to be specific.

jaclaz 

 

 

I need changing Internet Explorer files in Win 2K. Unfortunately, Microsoft thought Internet Explorer should be a system component and put files on System32. So these files are "protected".

[jaclaz]

Hmmm.

Protected by what exactly?

WFP was introduced in XP, AFAICR, Win2k should be free from that.  <- Edit: Brain fart, disregard.

Maybe you are having some kind of (NTFS) ACL permissions, if I were you I would first try the *whatever* you are trying to do on an install on FAT32.

Only for the record, my idea of "specific" is a little more narrow than "Internet Explorer files in Win 2K", in some cases (but shouldn't be yours) it is possible to replace file contents by using direct disk access.

jaclaz

Edited September 19, 2021 by jaclaz

[husara1]

1 hour ago, jaclaz said:

Hmmm.

Protected by what exactly?

WFP was introduced in XP, AFAICR, Win2k should be free from that.

Maybe you are having some kind of (NTFS) ACL permissions, if I were you I would first try the *whatever* you are trying to do on an install on FAT32.

Only for the record, my idea of "specific" is a little more narrow than "Internet Explorer files in Win 2K", in some cases (but shouldn't be yours) it is possible to replace file contents by using direct disk access.

jaclaz

I tried using INUSE.exe but it said "WFP enforced". I can change the files only by using a live system which is unpractical.

[jaclaz]

I remembered it wrongly, 2K has WFP allright:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/description-of-the-windows-file-protection-feature-db28f515-6512-63d1-6178-982ed2022ffb

Anyway, it can be disabled:

https://www.mdgx.com/2k1.htm#DFP

but there was another way by Fred De Vorck, 

 

and yet another one making use of an empty SFCFILES.DLL

https://web.archive.org/web/20110929040602/http://www.vorck.com/windows/software.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20110717232512/http://www.vorck.com/windows/data/sfcfiles.zip

jaclaz

 

[husara1]

2 hours ago, jaclaz said:

I remembered it wrongly, 2K has WFP allright:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/description-of-the-windows-file-protection-feature-db28f515-6512-63d1-6178-982ed2022ffb

Anyway, it can be disabled:

https://www.mdgx.com/2k1.htm#DFP

but there was another way by Fred De Vorck, 

 

and yet another one making use of an empty SFCFILES.DLL

https://web.archive.org/web/20110929040602/http://www.vorck.com/windows/software.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20110717232512/http://www.vorck.com/windows/data/sfcfiles.zip

jaclaz

 

I tried the empty SFCFILES.DLL method and it worked. Thanks you for all the support.

[jaclaz]

11 hours ago, husara1 said:

I tried the empty SFCFILES.DLL method and it worked. Thanks you for all the support.

Good.

jaclaz