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Choycolate
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 Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject: [HELP] my computer start up wont work |
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when i open it it opens in CMD then never opens
it saids too big to fit memory
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly, I have no clue what the hell you mean. Try describing it better or something..
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It's a corrupted PE header.
The PE header of an executable contains a few pointers and such to describe the file. If these are corrupted then it might try to load a huge amount of data into memory.
If this occurs when you click "My Computer", then you need to either System Restore to before this issue started occuring, repair your Windows installation with the Windows CD, or reformat.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| The repair install should work here.
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Choycolate
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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actually it says the same thing for every file except my computer and when i try to use the properties in my computer
FIREFOX works too
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Burningmace wrote: | It's a corrupted PE header.
The PE header of an executable contains a few pointers and such to describe the file. If these are corrupted then it might try to load a huge amount of data into memory.
If this occurs when you click "My Computer", then you need to either System Restore to before this issue started occuring, repair your Windows installation with the Windows CD, or reformat. |
afaik, windows will not load a PE that isn't valid.
in the PE header is a checksum, if you modify something else without editing the checksum, you will end up with a non functioning program.
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Polynomial
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| slovach wrote: | | Burningmace wrote: | It's a corrupted PE header.
The PE header of an executable contains a few pointers and such to describe the file. If these are corrupted then it might try to load a huge amount of data into memory.
If this occurs when you click "My Computer", then you need to either System Restore to before this issue started occuring, repair your Windows installation with the Windows CD, or reformat. |
afaik, windows will not load a PE that isn't valid.
in the PE header is a checksum, if you modify something else without editing the checksum, you will end up with a non functioning program. |
It depends where you screw it up. The DOS stub ("This application cannot be executed in MS-DOS mode.") is usually the section that causes the "too large for memory" error - hence why it is loaded in a CMD window. Normally when you screw up the code itself (asm) so that it represents invalid code, you get an NTVDM error stating that the command was invalid. However, if you just mess up the DOS stub, you get strange results.
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