Windows registry permissions and other problems

[davoud]

Hi,

I am using a dell 4550, 1.8 Ghz, 640 Mb Ram and win xp sp1.

After recovery from a serious disaster (which is previously posted in this forum under Remote Procedure Call major problem ), I have some problems left and I

would appreciate your comments on them. (For those who are interested in my recovery story, I would say that, I used the Winstress software from Ultrax company and could uninstall WinXP SP2, followed by in-place reinstallation of the XP SP1 which solved 90% of the problem)

Now Problems are:

1-Windows registry for some reasons loses "full control and users" for the

hives HKLM and H_Users after each reboot eventhough I fix them it happens

again. In place reinstallation of windows did not help. System and

administrators have full control and everyone and restricted have read

permissions. I set everyone to full control and add other users with full

control but after reboot no users.! and everyone loses its full control.

2-System info does not work and I get a message saying that:

"Cnnot collect information

Cannot access the windows management instrumentation software. Windows

management files maybe moved or missing"

I have tried all the tweaks on the net including those in microsoft

knowledge base and Kelly's Korner but no luck. Windows management

instrumentation is present in Services windows and is running and this script

succeeds without problem:

Set Svc = GetObject ("winmgmts:root\default") and I do not think that I need

to rebuild the repository as I tried the suggestions on this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcen...mifaq.mspx#EGAA

and all suceeded.

3-I tried to do a clean(fresh) install and when i got to the partions page i

changed my mind and quit the setup but now I have got multi boot menu (xp

home and xp) when I start and It goes directly to the windows setup before I

can do anything and I would like to know how I can remove that windows xp

option from the boot menu.

Thanks for your input.