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Error in Windows 2000 startup

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by lathe

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While starting up Windows 2000 shows an error "Cannot import C:\WINDOWS\sp.reg: Error opening the file. There may be a disk or file system error."

Any way to solve it.

Thanks

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by largenod2000

To me, .reg indicates a registration file from some install. It's possible that either the file is corrupted or deleted. Your choices are to reinstall the app (if you know which one)or to remove the request to import. I'd 'find' in regedit for "sp.reg"

by joseph moore

Found this reference on annoyances.org:

"Jethomepage is an unethical organization who wants to hijack your browser and take you to their site. They think we will just be nice and go along like sheep.

They insert a key into your registry under
localmachine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run the key name is sp, and the value is
regedit -s c:\Windows\sp.reg

DELETE THIS KEY.

You can also delete sp.reg and sp.dll from your Windows folder.

The effect of their little trick is to reset the registry each time you startup or logon, and keep their shabby little search page in your face. The effect of their registry settings, at least in my case, was to open their rotten little search window as a lefthand panel in MSIE, then maximize my browser and goof up my toolbars.
Deleting the key stops the program from running upon startup/logon."

Now, since you have Win2K, things are a little different. Open Regedit and go to HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run

And if in an entry in the right-side pane is for SP.REG, just right-click the entry and choose Delete.

Reboot.

hope this helps

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