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February 24, 2001 at 06:22 AM
lalo

“Failed to update the system registry”

by lalo . Updated 25 years, 3 months ago

Can somoene help. I’ve installed Windows 2000 Pro on 2 workstations and I keep getting a registry error upon executing some applications (Netscape 4.73 and SPSS Data Entry Builder”).

When I execute the application I get a small dialog box with the title of the application. In the contents it says:
“Failed to update the system registry. Please try running REGEDIT.”

In addition, one of the other applications (SPSS Data Entry Builder) gives me the following message:

Failed to get class type information.

Has anyone ever encountered this? I looked in the MS Knowledge Base and I found the same error message but the applictaion in question was Adobe Acrobat Reader (Article ID: Q255130 or Article ID: Q254957). I tried the suggestions, by guessing, on the registry key for Netscape, but it did not work. I either did not get the correct key, or the other associated keys.

I’d appreciate the help.

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