zeotch wrote:

i must have spoken too soon. now it won't start and i get an error
saying there's a system.ini file missing. what should i do? same
thing?

Yes, scanreg /restore restores the three registry files classes.dat,
system.dat and user.dat as well as the two files win.ini and system.ini.
What is perhaps more worrying is why system.ini is now missing.
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP