Millenium Edition has System File Protection, a feature that starts with Windows 
and runs as a background task until you shut down.

Choose Start > Folder Options > View > Show hidden files and folders. Click OK.

Look in the Windows\System\sfp folder for the text file sfpdb.sfp

That will give you the list of the files being protected.

In the same folder, the text file sfplog.txt will have a record of SFP actions.

SFP protects the operating system but can cause application problems if the app has 
not been specifically designed to run under ME. After the app installs, SFP 
will delete .dll, .ocx, .vxd and .drv files the app needs to run and replace them 
with the versions it protects.

Pgs 193-195 of Windows Me Annoyances shows how you can uninstall SFP, which also 
uninstalls System Restore and disables the Help shortcut in the Start menu. It's 
a one-way trip so do some research and be sure you understand editing the registry 
and the consequences of the choice. In brief, you run regedit and expand the key 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uininstall\PCHealth

Double-click on the UninstallString value, copy the text to the clipboard, and click 
Cancel when done.

Paste the string into Start > Run > Open and click OK. This runs a hidden uninstaller.

Reboot for the changes to take effect. You can then delete the \_RESTORE\ folder 
which will give you back up to 12% of your available hard disk space. Since SFP will 
not be running, you should also see an increase in available system resources.

The consequence is a step backward toward Windows 98, with more personal control 
but also the risk that you will sooner or later break ME and have to manually replace 
files. If that makes you uncomfortable, you should not disable SFP and System Restore. 
If you do it, back up everything before you begin, and think through what you will 
do if everything goes horribly wrong.







On Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 11:00 pm, DanTheMan wrote:

>Hello i got windows me and i wanna know if windows me has system file checker (SFC) 

>if it does can u tell me how to get it to run 

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