Windows XP msmsgs.inf problems

Hello my geeky friends:

Someone wanted to play games on my sister's emachine 625 with winxp sp3.
However, the link was gone from the menu.

I tried going into add/remove windows components but received this message:”
From Windows Xp Setup it is a message that says Please wait.
Then another message said was unable to open information file msmsg.inf.
Contact your system administrator. The specific error code is Ox2 at line 0.
Behind it is a message that says Please wait.

The third message said the application could not be initialized.
I thought maybe that I just needed to fix the files that loony had corrupted so I ran sfc /scannow. I was able to reinstall all the files but one. I do not know how to tell which one did not reinstall. However, I
the games are still missing, and I still get the same messages if I try to install them.

I also noticed that the sound icon is no longer in the task bar. When I try to add it, I get the message:
Windows cannot display the volume control on the taskbar because the Volume control has not been installed. To install it, use add/remove programs in the control panel.

Of course that does not work.

I worked with Chaslang for malware, and he has now referred me to you guys

I also reran sfc /scannow but it did not help.

How do I get msmsg.inf to work?

Thanks for helping,

Pete22

 

Try this fix hope it helps you good luck !

To restore/reinstall Microsoft Messenger
Click Start Menu > click Run, type "systemroot%\inf%" (without quotes) command and press Enter to open INF folder, find this file " MSMsgs.inf ", and finally right click on file and select install.

 

Hello RustyJack:

I did as you suggested.

Computer said it could not find systemroot%\inf%



Pete22

 

I did some fiddleing and got %systemroot%\inf open.
msmsg.inf was not there. so I found one and put in there and told it to install.

I will see if this fixes it.


Pete22

 

Now I get a different error message. I will close this thread and open a new one if I cant get it figured out.

Thanks