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by sgt_shultz
tap f8 key during boot up, pick safe mode command prompt only. or boot with win98 startup floppy.
cd c:\windows
dir system.* to see any backups that might exist of system.dat. the will be fairly large. nortons et al makes them during installation. otherwise use system.1st which i believe is hidden and at root level of hd.
dir user.* to see all backups of user.dat
when you have picked your backups of system.dat and user.dat:
md regbak
attrib -r -h -s system.dat
attrib -r -h -s user.dat
copy user.dat regbak
copy system.dat regbak
ren system.dat system.bad
ren user.dat user.bad
copy user.bak user.dat
copy system.bak system.dat
reboot system
there is better step by step for this from microsoft at mskb at support.microsoft.com
when you get it back, backup registrys again...
by youssifm
you can press F8 and hold, then safe mode command prompt only
then type scanreg/restore
and choose cab file of proper date
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