Thanks Mike,
I was looking at the first line of his post where it says:
"If you can boot up to C: prompt, type screg/restore. You will then be
given a choice to restore to previous registry."

The comment in step 1 clarified things, somewhat. I was just trying
to find out if there was another command I was unaware of.
Heirloom, old and no space filters here

"Mike M" wrote in message
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heirloom wrote:

If you can boot up to C: prompt, type screg/restore. You will then
be

H,

Check Warren's post again and you will see that he said:

1. First, boot to DOS with a boot disk.snip
From a: type "scanreg /restore" without the
quotes and hit ENTER. Select a date before the problem occurred. Note
the space between scanreg and /restore. Then reboot your computer.

Perhaps your PC's filtering out spaces. :-)
--
Mike