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| 12698 | 2001-05-16 10:10:00 | I have just reloaded Win95 and now every time windows opens I get a registry problem come up on the screen telling me to restore from back up and restart . Any ideas to cure this problem. Many Thanks, Keith. |
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| 12699 | 2001-05-16 23:55:00 | Keith, This error occurs because part of the registry has become corrupted and windows has difficulty loading it. The registry is stored in two files, system.dat and user.dat, both located in the windows directory. Check the windows directory for any backups that may have been created by other programs during installation. As well as any created by applications there should be two called system.1st and user.1st, these are created by windows at installation time and are hopefully error free. Copy these files one at a time over the existing registry files. The files may have hidden and system attributes which must first be removed. I would also recommend trying to get hold of a copy of scanreg.exe, available on the Windows 98 CD, this program also works with Windows 95. Type scanreg /fix at the DOS prompt to repair any errors. |
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| 12700 | 2001-05-17 14:24:00 | The bakup registry files are user.da0 and system.da0. Do NOT copy the system.1st and user.1st files over user.dat and system.dat. As they are basic versions of the windows registry which are installed with windows. They are not updated to reflect any devices that have been loaded after Windows was installed. The first thing you should do is check that the hard drive is not full, or nearly full. If it is then Windows may not have enough space to update the registry on startup. If that is Ok then look up Q131431 (How to Trouble Registry Errors) in the Knowledge Base at www.microsoft.com/ |
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| 12701 | 2001-05-22 03:36:00 | Thanks for the replies. Think I have sorted out the problem.May have been a faulty ram and nothing to do with windows as I took out the ram and replaced it with another type and all seems well. Heres hopeing. Keith |
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