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by techiehelp

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Just got a brand new Toshiba laptop running WinXP and Office XP. I joined my domain and installed printers. The next time I rebooted and logged on to the machine using a regular (non-admin) username, I got this error message: "IVPSvMgr Failed to update the system registry. Please try using REGEDIT." What is the IVPSvMgr and how do I begin to edit the registry without any additional information? Please advice!!!!

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by c.barnhorst

Do you know how to use the System Restore feature of your XP? Whenever you install drivers XP makes a restore point just for the kind of situation you are in. Restore back to a point before you installed the printers. System Restore will put the registry back to the way it was before you started. Make sure you have the necessary permissions for the login you are using. Then repeat the installation.

Do not edit the registry. If you have to ask how then you don't want to do it. I'm not being cute, but editing the registry is high risk and registry-experienced users take many measures to protect their machines and provide for disaster recovery before starting to edit. While I doubt that the printer entries in the registry would prevent the computer from booting there are some entries that can render the OS unusable.

by techiehelp

Thanks for your response. Yes, I know editing the registry is quite a risky business! That's why once I searched the registry and found no value with that name, I decided to post to see if someone else had encountered same error message. Basically, I logged backed onto the machine using the Administrator's username/password, granted local admin rights to the user account and logged out.It was fine the next time I logged in as the user...the error message was gone! I didn't have to do a restore or reinstall the printers!!

Thanks again for your response.

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