Windows 2000 keeps prompting me for CD upon login

[jdyer]

Everytime I log into my system, it prompts me to insert the Windows 2000 Professional CD. If I insert the CD it installs whatever files and the box goes away. Then when I remove the CD and restart, it prompts me again. If I hit cancel, it will give me a message saying that i chose to not to install the original files and it will let me in. And then the next time I reboot and login it prompts me again. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Exact Message:

Files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognized versions. To maintain system stability Windows must restore the original versions of these files.

Insert your Windows 2000 Professional CD Now.


Thanks in advance!
Jeff

 

[cbrider]

Do a system overlay.

Run the W2k installation. When prompted select, "New Installation". Next menu will ask you if you want to completely format the drive and do a clean install, or to keep the files you have and install w2k around them. Choose to do the second. After installation all your files should be there as well as your applications. Remember to do all windows updates.

 

[jdyer]

Have you experienced this before?

 

[tahoe2]

I had this same problem. It is a mIRC application that is incompatible with W2K. In our case it was a POS application, and I had to install XP for it to work properly.

If you can, uninstall the app that runs mIRC (which is NOT a MS program) and test, that would tell you for certain.

Hope this helps!

Corie

 

[jdyer]

What is mIRC? That sounds right because it keeps happening to one group of people all running the same third party applications at my company. They run "Near & Far", "Toad" and "XMLSpy" in paricular. Are any of these applications mIRC?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[tahoe2]

mIRC is a scripting tool, often used for chat software, and other applications that need to communicate with another source.
It seems your company deals with many scripting programs (the ones you mentioned mostly deal with XML) and I bet that one of them is the cause, so you might try to uninstall one program at a time til you find the culprit.

Corie