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| Thread ID: 27644 | 2002-11-27 07:57:00 | Curly Regscan prob | Rod ger (316) | Press F1 |
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| 101927 | 2002-11-27 07:57:00 | Running W98 original 266 K6 192MB RAM. When running Scanreg fix or Scanreg restore in DOS I get shunted off to a replacement Reg to replace the faulty one found. The trouble is the replacements are equally corrupted, so, after replacement Windows trys to restart etc etc an endless loop. I have found the Scanreg.ini and disabled backups to skip the process and have used JV16 Powertools plus a few others to check\clean the registry. None found a fault, and there don't seem nutting rong wit de system. Is there some way of finding out what scanreg found incorrect with the reg, or a program to check it, to correct this problem, or is it a checksum thing? Its a bit of a worry not having automatic backups( I do a manual one every now and then.) Any help appreciated |
Rod ger (316) | ||
| 101928 | 2002-11-27 08:10:00 | Just used the System info\tools Registry checker . No problems found?? | Rod ger (316) | ||
| 101929 | 2002-11-28 03:14:00 | It's not really clear what your problem is. You have a corrupted registry and the registry backups are also faulty but then you say none of the reg cleaners found a fault? Is it just scanreg saying that there is a fault and trying to replace with a good version? If your system is running fine otherwise? Try doing a manual backup of the registry then running scanreg/ fix and see what happens. You have read the Registry FAQ (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) haven't you? |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 101930 | 2002-11-28 05:41:00 | Thanks for answering Susan. Essentially Scanreg detects a "bad" registry every time I startup and replaces it, automatically, with another "bad" backup, restarts and repeats the whole process endlessly. Unless I disable it in the scanreg.ini. Despite detecting a "bad" registry everything I have used so far says its OK, including Windows own manual checker. I have made backups manually but this does not enable scanreg to work under startup. It would be nice to get back to automatic backups. |
Rod ger (316) | ||
| 101931 | 2002-11-28 06:31:00 | Oh, that problem..... I've been down that road a few times. MSN has been one cause in the past. Unfortunately I don't know how to fix it without having a good backup - when it happened to me I had at least one good copy to reinstall. Unless someone else comes up with a better suggestion, I'd say it might pay to reinstall Windows. You won't lose your programs or data but it would still pay to do some backups just in case. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 101932 | 2002-11-28 09:24:00 | Been looking on the MSKB and they say faulty memory. But I have downloaded a memory testing proggy and all is OK. I thought I may not have enough mem in DOS( I have had a bad config for my CD which I had not got around to fixing for a bit) and am into the process of moving everything HIGH to max the available memory. Ive got a drivespace line that I don't know how got there, so that will take a bit of looking into. I'm going to try without startup proggies too, to see if the fault lies there. I figure I'll keep your reinstall option as a last resort. Thanks for that Susan I hadn't thought of it. |
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