Repair corrupt config file

For example:. Show Properties. Show exp. I am well aware of how to try catch around a call to the config file. What I am trying to do is catch a corrupt config file error. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem. I am trying to catch this error in case a user messes with the config file. It seems that I should be able to catch this error. I performed a test based on your steps but didn't reproduce the problem on my side. I create a Console application project using VS When the application is run, all works well.

Linda, try it in VS and you will see what I mean. Please try this and tell me if there is any switch I can set that will say "ignore config errors" or something like that. Nobugz, thanks for your reply. Any idea if there is a switch that will tell the clr to ignore config errrors? Replacing the Xservers file requires shutting down all Sun Ray Client services.

Remember to inform users of the outage. Replace the Xservers and Xconfig files as appropriate. For headless servers, comment out or remove the :0 entry from the Xservers file. Check how to do it below. Remove any possible malware or virus on your computer and try to open the Excel file again.

If it is due to a disk error that prevents you from opening an Excel spreadsheet, you can try to move the file to another hard drive and try to open it again.

If you have enabled the automatic backup feature of an Excel file, you can easily restore the workbook from the backup if the file is mistakenly deleted or corrupted. Below is a guide for how to enable the AutoBackup feature of an Excel workbook. After you enable the automatic backup feature of the Excel spreadsheet, it will create an Excel backup file with an. The backup file is saved to the same location as the original file. The first time you save the file, the two files will be the same.

The second time you save the original file after making some edits, the backup file will still be the same. When you edit the file and save the original file the third time, the backup file will be updated with the information as the second save.

You can open the backup file when needed. If there are some problems such as bad sectors on hard drive , you may also encounter the error that Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.

Then the chkdsk utilities will begin to scan your hard drive. When the scanning process is finished, reboot your computer and check whether the problem that Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt is solved. If there are corrupt system files on your computer, you may also come across the error that Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt. In this situation, you can run the Windows built-in tools — System File Checker to scan and repair the corrupt system files on your computer.

When the scanning process is finished, reboot your computer and check whether the error that Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt is solved. The problem that Windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt can be fixed by replacing it with a clean copy that was created on the hard drive when Windows was installed.

Before proceeding on, you had better back up the current registry files so that they could be restored if anything goes wrong. After that, exit the command line window and reboot your computer to check whether the error that Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt is solved.

If none of the above solutions takes effect, you can choose to reinstall the operating system. But before reinstalling, the first thing you need to do is to export your data. After retrieving data from the unbootable computer due to the error that Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt, you can start to reinstall the operating system.

Then you can follow the wizard to complete Windows installation. When the process is finished, the computer can boot normally and you also have fixed the problem that Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt. After fixing the problem that Windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt, it is recommended to create a system image.

In this way, it can effectively safeguard your computer and files. In addition, you can directly restore your computer to a normal state when encountering some problems or coming across the issue that Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt again.

To create a system image, MiniTool ShadowMaker is able to do that.