Need help fixing the registry

When I start Windows Mellennium and use normal mode I
come to a message that sais 'Windows cannot prosses the
registry. This may be fixed by rebooting to the command
prompt and running SCANREG /FIX. Otherwise Windows may
not have enough memory to load' When I try going through
safe mode it sais that there is a problem with the Device
IOS and that the system has halted. I have tried to type
in every command including: scanreg/fix, scanreg/restore,
mem/c, smartdrv, and scandisk (which I used to scan and
fix some problems, but still cannot load windows.) This
happend right after trying to load some old software and
shutting the computer down, so my guess is that it is a
virus . If you know a solution !please! let me know.
Keep in mind I cannot open windows and none of these
commands in the command prompt seem to work. If you know
of a specific Anti-Virus program that would work please
tell me specifically what it is so that I can use it. I
appriciate your time.

This assumes that you hadn't picked up a virus - you may need to check using
a DOS virus checker from www.f-prot.com

As you can no longer boot into Safe Mode as well as Normal Mode then you are
running out of options and are only left with trying to boot using the WinMe
Startup (floppy) Disk into Real Mode DOS and see if you can recover from
there.

Boot using the Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and choose 4) Minimal Boot.
At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space
between the g and /) then press Enter.
Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the last 'good' date before
you tried to install your software, when PC ran OK, continuing with the
instructions.

Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to
reboot.

Hopefully, this method may get your pc running again.

Mart


"Hunter Brown" wrote in message
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When I start Windows Mellennium and use normal mode I
come to a message that sais 'Windows cannot prosses the
registry. This may be fixed by rebooting to the command
prompt and running SCANREG /FIX. Otherwise Windows may
not have enough memory to load' When I try going through
safe mode it sais that there is a problem with the Device
IOS and that the system has halted. I have tried to type
in every command including: scanreg/fix, scanreg/restore,
mem/c, smartdrv, and scandisk (which I used to scan and
fix some problems, but still cannot load windows.) This
happend right after trying to load some old software and
shutting the computer down, so my guess is that it is a
virus . If you know a solution !please! let me know.
Keep in mind I cannot open windows and none of these
commands in the command prompt seem to work. If you know
of a specific Anti-Virus program that would work please
tell me specifically what it is so that I can use it. I
appriciate your time.