Hello, and welcome to Sysnative!
This should be a reasonably easy fix actually. A couple of bitshifts, but we should be able to set them right (The post from MowGreen in the above thread has hit your problem on the head: STATUS_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER. But please ignore the one post by Soni Pradeep as that doesn't apply to your machine).
Anyway, in order to fix this I need your COMPONENTS hive. I know that these steps are a bit of a pain, we have a new system for easy COMPONENTS hive collection being rolled out very soon, but you've just missed it
In fact, you will probably be the very last person ever to use these particular instructions (unless of course the easy collection system ever breaks down
). Anyway, I'm sure you'll manage as you seem very competent :)
niemiro said:
Please download the Freeware RegBak from here:
Acelogix Software - Download products
Navigate to
C:\Windows\RegBak\{Date}\ and copy the
COMPONENTS file to your Desktop. If the
COMPONENTS file does not exist, please fetch it instead from
C:\Windows\System32\config\COMPONENTS.
Now
right click on it >
Send to >
Compressed (zipped) folder.
Then please upload it to your favourite file sharing website (it will be too big for here). If you have a Microsoft Account, SkyDrive could be a good choice:
https://skydrive.live.com/, but any other will do just fine. Make sure to set the file as publicly accessible.
Then send me a link to the file.
But there's another issue. One of my jobs on any Windows Update thread is to consider the root cause. And unfortunately, I don't think yours was just bad luck. In actual fact, I think it is caused by hardware failure, specifically bad RAM. I know that this is probably the last thing you want to hear right now, but it unfortunately looks that way. Please follow these instructions to test this assertion of mine:
https://www.sysnative.com/forums/hardware-tutorials/3909-test-ram-with-memtest86.html
If in the last couple of months you have already found and removed a failed RAM stick, then of course the above doesn't apply :)
Richard
