windows is telling me \windows\system32\DLA\DLA.INI is/might be corrupt, help!

helpless_omg · 07-07-2008, 12:06 PM

My computer was acting fine the previous night, then this morning I saw a family member on it. I didn't stick around to see what they had done with the computer, but when I had got back on, things were acting weird. The previous night, however, firefox had just installed a new official mozilla update and wasn't connecting to the internet after that. So when I got back on, AIM was missing color information and style pattern, just being kind of whitewashed. Internet explorer wasn't opening windows right. Firefox still wasn't connecting. I restarted, and at startup I got a dialogue box reading something like "the file or directory \windows\system32\DLA\DLA.INI might be corrupt, check the chkdsk."
I tried opening it but it wouldn't open, not in wordpad or internet explorer as windows had suggested. A friend of mine told me that this happened to her friend, but he couldn't get past the start-up screen and had to get a reinstall windows cd.

So, my real panic is, will I lose all my files? Is this malignant? Can I fix it? /Get it fixed?

1972vet · 07-07-2008, 03:07 PM

Click Start-->My Computer-->Right Click on C:/ Drive
Select "Properties" then click the "Tools" Tab. Under Error Checking click the "Check Now" button. Under Check Disk Options put a check in Both boxes then Click Start. Click Yes then Click OK and reboot the system.

07-07-2008, 12:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
helpless_omg Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1 OS: windows xp media center edition	windows is telling me \windows\system32\DLA\DLA.INI is/might be corrupt, help! My computer was acting fine the previous night, then this morning I saw a family member on it. I didn't stick around to see what they had done with the computer, but when I had got back on, things were acting weird. The previous night, however, firefox had just installed a new official mozilla update and wasn't connecting to the internet after that. So when I got back on, AIM was missing color information and style pattern, just being kind of whitewashed. Internet explorer wasn't opening windows right. Firefox still wasn't connecting. I restarted, and at startup I got a dialogue box reading something like "the file or directory \windows\system32\DLA\DLA.INI might be corrupt, check the chkdsk." I tried opening it but it wouldn't open, not in wordpad or internet explorer as windows had suggested. A friend of mine told me that this happened to her friend, but he couldn't get past the start-up screen and had to get a reinstall windows cd. So, my real panic is, will I lose all my files? Is this malignant? Can I fix it? /Get it fixed?

07-07-2008, 03:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
1972vet Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 155 OS: xpsp3	Re: windows is telling me \windows\system32\DLA\DLA.INI is/might be corrupt, help! Click Start-->My Computer-->Right Click on C:/ Drive Select "Properties" then click the "Tools" Tab. Under Error Checking click the "Check Now" button. Under Check Disk Options put a check in Both boxes then Click Start. Click Yes then Click OK and reboot the system. __________________ CastleCops Graduate 1st Responder/Maintenance Tips