A friend of mine and myself have installed the SP4 and are not having
problems with WinNT. You might want to try to uninstall the service pack
and then reinstall it.
Doug Albright
-----Original Message-----
From: Sylvie De Roy <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 4:44 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] NT4 SP4 Problems
>Greetings to all fellow listers. This is my first time posting.
>
>On Tuesday October 27, I downloaded and installed Windows NT4 Service Pack
>4 - 128-bit North-American version (Workstation). Since then I have been
>experiencing the following problems:
>
>1. After selecting "Shut Down The Computer" from the shut-down menu, a
>blinking message box displays the following error:
>
> WFXmod32.dll : The application failed to execute because the
> system is shutting down.
>
>2. I ran Diskeeper Boot Time Directory Consolidation feature with the
>option of running CheckDisk before and after consolidation selected. But
>before Diskeeper started the following message displayed on-screen:
>
> WARNING! Your HD may be corrupted. Please run checkdisk or you
> may lose data.
>
>I simply chose to let Diskeeper run the show and was then able to access my
>log-in screen as usual. But I admit it was a scary moment.
>
>Has anyone experienced same problems?
>
>I am thinking of uninstalling SP4 and reverting to SP3, but after reading
>Section 2.3/Service Pack Uninstall in the SP4 Readme file, I believe I
>would need a lucky star and a lucky day to do so since SP4 modifies the
>Security Account Manager (SAM) database and the Security database such that
>older versions of specific .dll files and Winlogon.exe no longer recognize
>the database structure and the uninstall process of SP4 does not restore
>these specific files. To me that spells trouble.
>
>Any advice would be most appreciated. I sincerely regret having upgraded
>to SP4.
>
>SYSTEM SPECS
>Motherboard: ASUS P55T2P4, 512K Cache, HX chipset
>RAM: 128Mb EDO DRAM
>Video display: Matrox Millennium 11 - 8Mb WRAM
>Processor: Intel Pentium 150Mhz
>Modem: US Robotics 33.6 internal
>
>SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS
>Windows NT4 Workstation
>Corel Word Perfect 7.0
>Corel Draw 7
>MS Office Pro 95
>Winfax Pro, version 8
>Diskeeper, version 3
>McAfee VirusScan for NT Workstation (engine version 3.2.0) with the latest
>DAT file
>
>Sylvie De Roy
>Montreal - CANADA
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