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| Thread ID: 25621 | 2002-10-08 03:32:00 | Unstable Registry | jeep (1673) | Press F1 |
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| 87157 | 2002-10-08 03:32:00 | I'm running (or trying to) Win98SE on my old P200. After a clean install, everything is okay until my kids start loading on ICQ, MSN etc. Then, when I restart the computer it comes up with a registry error and asks to reload the old registry and reboots. I question the kids as to what they have loaded, to which i get a blank look (no-one wants the blame)! Is there any way of tracking down what is destroying the resgistry? | jeep (1673) | ||
| 87158 | 2002-10-08 03:38:00 | If it keeps on doing this, I had a similar prob with a friends PC, 98SE... I began a re-install of windows, and before any setup began, it does a scandisk and registry check. After that, I stopped it and it was sweet from then on. Maybe it was a fluke, but Its one solution! I think there's a Prog called RegCleaner that'll do the trick too.. I'll have to have a look Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 87159 | 2002-10-08 03:40:00 | If, as you say it is an old machine, it may be that you don't have enough memory. I know I used to get registry errors constantly (got to the stage where a message came up every 20 seconds X-( ) when I was running Win95 in 16Mb. As soon as I took it upto 32Mb, all my registry problems went away :-) | Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 87160 | 2002-10-08 03:42:00 | Try decreasing the Max registry size also. I know its easy to do in 2K, I'll see if I can find out how to do it in 98! Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 87161 | 2002-10-08 03:46:00 | I've had these sorts of errors on several occassions due to bad RAM, you may want to try swapping some different stuff in | TerryW (2183) | ||
| 87162 | 2002-10-08 09:19:00 | The machine could be getting a bit weighed down, like the others say, but my PC had registry problems like this a while ago. It always happened after my daughter had been using MSN so she got another account and the problem stopped. Funnily enough, she's been using her old account a couple of times recently and the registry has been fine (touchwood). My old banger is only a PII 266 with 160MB RAM so in my case it's not due to lack of memory at least. It might be worth your kids getting new accounts for MSN just to see if the problems go away. |
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