REGISTRY ERROR

Try regclean. Info is at this page:
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It works very well.

Your registry is okay.

This usually shows that you got bad memory or RAM. Try replacing your memory with a good one. The problem should disappear instantly.

Regclean isnt a bad idea. If this computer is on a network and you're using profiles jus trename the user.dat from the windows profile directory and the person's home folder and the default user profile recrete it when the person logs back in.

You said you installed 98 again, but if you're going to do that, and this is a reg error, you'll probobly want to rename the system.dat and user.dat (your registry files, before reinstalling. Reinstalling, just saw those files and did nothing to them.

Good luck to you

Mark

At dos prompt not spooled to dos from windows, run scanreg /fix. This will should fix your registry.

Bo

The best first step when this error occurs is to immediately power down your computer (don't go through normal Windows shutdown procedures or click the button provided). The reason for this is because of the way the registry is backed up on reboot. You are past this point right now so we'll go on to the next step.

Boot to a dos prompt or use a boot disk. You will need the "extract.exe" program. It should be in the c:\windows\command folder. If you can't find it on your hard drive, it is on the Windows 98 CD.

You will probably want to rename your current system.dat, user.dat, win.ini, and system.ini before doing this so you can revert back if needed. Once that is done, do the following:

Go to the c:\windows\sysbckup folder on your hard drive and do a directory listing. you will see a number of rb00x.cab files there. Find the one dated just BEFORE you started having problems. From the dos prompt, enter the following command:
EXTRACT /E /L C:\WINDOWS RB00X.CAB
Where RB00X.cab is the file dated just before you encountered the problem.

At that point, reboot your machine and your registry will have been restored to the point of that last registry backup.

when you say you reloaded 98, did you format the drive and do a clean install or just reinstall over the existing operating system?
Did this problem just appear one day, or did it happen after you did something?Just curious.

Boot to command prompt only and remove the attributes on system.dat and user.dat, then do the same for user.da0(thats a zero not an O[oh]) and system.da0, then copy these files to the first IE: copy user.da0 to user.dat

With any luck this will restore your registry to the last good boot.