Registry problems

Window makes a copy of Registry when it closes down. If it finds the Registry is bad it uses that copy. The first thing you can try is to let windows use that copy of the registy and with out running anything shut the computer down and restart. Alsoyou need to figure out if you have installed and new porgrams that may be acting funny. Norton utilities may be able to find whats wrong also. If your system has crashed and the copy is bad you may need to reinstall windows.

Windows actually saves several copies of your registry. So if the first backup is bad it is still possible to recover a working registry. There is also a utility out there that is a nice tool for saving a registry or even rebuilding one. It is called RegMedic and can be found at: http://www.easydesksoftware.com/moresoft.htm

There are also a few other utilites here that you will find useful.

Hi, I would restart from a cold boot, and press dorn the ctrl key until you get to start up page, then choose Safe Mood, and see if you can restore from a backup there.

Good luck and have a great day.

Don Thibodaux, Independent Computer Technology Consultant.

As stated above, Windows keeps a backup of your Registry (usually the Registry during the last successful boot) in the files system.bak and user.bak. You can restore these files from a DOS prompt. To do so, reboot and hold F8 after the BIOS screencomes up. Choose Safe Mode Command Prompt Only. At the DOS prompt type the following:

cd \Windows
attrib system.dat -r -h -s
attrib user.dat -r -h -s
copy system.bak system.dat
copy user.bak user.dat
attrib system.dat +r +h +s
attrib user.dat +r +h +s

Then reboot and allow Windows to run. Hopefully, that'll work. It has for me.

Hold down the F8 Key before windows starts to boot . On the startup menu select DOS mode . If the system starts successfully then type scanreg /restore . This will restore the registry . Restart the computer .If the sytem doesn't boot in DOS mode then you have to boot with the startup disk ( with CDROM ) ,and look for the scanreg utility on the RAM drive
( drive letter of RAM drive will be intimated at startup ) .Run this utility with the /restore switch . then restart your computer . Make a note of the programs on the RAM drive they will be usefull when you run into bootup problems etc in future .

Good Luck !!!!!!!!!

You can also get this error if your disk is full. Win9x doesn't like it
if your disk is too full. If you can boot into dos via f8, check to
see if you don't have a few large files taking up most of your hard drive.
This happened to one of my users. They couldn't figure out why
they coulndn't keep multiple .iso images on their 8gig
disk :)

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