Registry Error! Heyyylp!

[Nic]

"Windows encountered an error accessing the system registry.

WIndows will restart and repair the system registry for you"

except it does'nt. It comes up every 2 on 3 times. I used Reg Clean but that does'nt seem to of helped. I heard about a patch that can sort this out, but I can't find it. IS there a way to sort this out? is there a patch?

I'm running windows 98 by the way.

[jdharm]

Have you tried to restore the registry from the backups yourself in DOS? That has worked for me a couple of times.

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[Nic]

eh? I'm not really a computer literate person so I don't think i can. unless someone gives me a step by step guide.

[Andy-S]

This can also be caused by bad RAM. See the thread in the registry section in this forum for more potential solutions.

http://www.winguides.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=brdQuestions&Number=35971&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&part=1#Post36830

[jdharm]

In light of Andy's comment I feel the need to say: You should probably exhaust all options before trying this if you don't feel comfortable messing with the registry. But if all else fails:

Boot using a Windows startup disk.

At the A:\ prompt type the following exactly as it appears:

attrib c:\windows\user.dat -h -s -a -r
attrib c:\windows\user.da0 -h -s -a -r
attrib c:\windows\system.dat -h -s -a -r
attrib c:\windows\system.da0 -h -s -a -r
copy c:\windows\user.da0 c:\windows\user.dat
copy c:\windows\system.da0 c:\windows\system.dat

Notes: Those are zeros, not oh's in "da0".

The system will ask if you want to overwrite after each of the copy commands. Hit 'y'.

There is one space between the two file paths in the copy commands.

The first four lines remove the protection from the registry files (*.dat) and the backup files (*.da0). The copy commands replace the registry files with the backup files. The system will restore the protection on the files when Windows starts up again.

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I'm just making this up as I go along.
Scoff, ignore, or flame at will.