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Hi,
I've been very stupid. A friend of mine gave me a program called Xen tweak and like a 1st class pratt I gave it a wirl, using Xen to backup my registry before I made any changes. Everything was fine when I did all the tweaks and tips, and then... I went to log onto the internet and my password was missing (It's usually automatically filled in). It's been that long since I typed my password and I forgot it. So, I though no problem and used Xen to restore my registry. However, when I rebooted there's nothing. It boots to the screen where it has 4 options... Normal, Safe mode etc and it says uder that 'Windows has found an error in the cofigeration of the registy, use SCANREG to fix problem. If I try to go to Normal or Safe mode, It just hangs with the desktop picture in the background and I have to CTRLALTDEL twice to get out. It also won't shutdown, I've had to kill the power. Will I need to create a boot disk from Bootdisk.com? and where do I go from there. I can't beleive I done this especially after reading posts on these forums about registry editors and how bad they are. Any help would be greatly received. Many thanks, Canna. |
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Thanks Mike,
I've created the boot disk at work. I'll try the restore when I get home and hopefully will be posting later to tell you everything went well from the computer with the problem. Cheers. "Mike M" wrote: Canna, Get yourself a bootable floppy (see below) and then boot using the floppy and select either 2 or 3 from the Menu (but not 4). Then, at the A:\ prompt type SCANREG /RESTORE Follow the prompts and choose a backup copy of the registry that immediately predates your having used Xen. When complete remove the floppy and reboot the system. You can download the image of a Win Me OEM boot disk from www.bootdisk.com. Download to your desktop, double click to run and follow the prompts to transfer the image to a floppy. Do NOT copy the downloaded file to a floppy - that won't make a bootable floppy but instead a floppy disk containing the file you downloaded. This can be done on any PC and then the floppy used with the PC having problems. -- Mike Maltby canna wrote: Hi, I've been very stupid. A friend of mine gave me a program called Xen tweak and like a 1st class pratt I gave it a wirl, using Xen to backup my registry before I made any changes. Everything was fine when I did all the tweaks and tips, and then... I went to log onto the internet and my password was missing (It's usually automatically filled in). It's been that long since I typed my password and I forgot it. So, I though no problem and used Xen to restore my registry. However, when I rebooted there's nothing. It boots to the screen where it has 4 options... Normal, Safe mode etc and it says uder that 'Windows has found an error in the cofigeration of the registy, use SCANREG to fix problem. If I try to go to Normal or Safe mode, It just hangs with the desktop picture in the background and I have to CTRLALTDEL twice to get out. It also won't shutdown, I've had to kill the power. Will I need to create a boot disk from Bootdisk.com? and where do I go from there. I can't beleive I done this especially after reading posts on these forums about registry editors and how bad they are. Any help would be greatly received. |
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Hi Mike,
Just one question, when you said select option 2 or 3 I just want to make sure what they refer to. On my PC option 2 = Something like BOOTLOG.TXT and option 3 = Safe mode. If I select option 3 would it not boot or try to boot to safe mode? Cheers, Canna. "canna" wrote: Thanks Mike, I've created the boot disk at work. I'll try the restore when I get home and hopefully will be posting later to tell you everything went well from the computer with the problem. Cheers. "Mike M" wrote: Canna, Get yourself a bootable floppy (see below) and then boot using the floppy and select either 2 or 3 from the Menu (but not 4). Then, at the A:\ prompt type SCANREG /RESTORE Follow the prompts and choose a backup copy of the registry that immediately predates your having used Xen. When complete remove the floppy and reboot the system. You can download the image of a Win Me OEM boot disk from www.bootdisk.com. Download to your desktop, double click to run and follow the prompts to transfer the image to a floppy. Do NOT copy the downloaded file to a floppy - that won't make a bootable floppy but instead a floppy disk containing the file you downloaded. This can be done on any PC and then the floppy used with the PC having problems. -- Mike Maltby canna wrote: Hi, I've been very stupid. A friend of mine gave me a program called Xen tweak and like a 1st class pratt I gave it a wirl, using Xen to backup my registry before I made any changes. Everything was fine when I did all the tweaks and tips, and then... I went to log onto the internet and my password was missing (It's usually automatically filled in). It's been that long since I typed my password and I forgot it. So, I though no problem and used Xen to restore my registry. However, when I rebooted there's nothing. It boots to the screen where it has 4 options... Normal, Safe mode etc and it says uder that 'Windows has found an error in the cofigeration of the registy, use SCANREG to fix problem. If I try to go to Normal or Safe mode, It just hangs with the desktop picture in the background and I have to CTRLALTDEL twice to get out. It also won't shutdown, I've had to kill the power. Will I need to create a boot disk from Bootdisk.com? and where do I go from there. I can't beleive I done this especially after reading posts on these forums about registry editors and how bad they are. Any help would be greatly received. |
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I am referring to the menu displayed when you boot from the Floppy. 1 is
Help, 2 & 3 to boot DOS with or without CD support and 4 is minimal boot. You need to choose either 2 or 3. -- Mike Maltby canna wrote: Hi Mike, Just one question, when you said select option 2 or 3 I just want to make sure what they refer to. On my PC option 2 = Something like BOOTLOG.TXT and option 3 = Safe mode. If I select option 3 would it not boot or try to boot to safe mode? |
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Thanks Mike, my computer works again.
"Mike M" wrote: I am referring to the menu displayed when you boot from the Floppy. 1 is Help, 2 & 3 to boot DOS with or without CD support and 4 is minimal boot. You need to choose either 2 or 3. -- Mike Maltby canna wrote: Hi Mike, Just one question, when you said select option 2 or 3 I just want to make sure what they refer to. On my PC option 2 = Something like BOOTLOG.TXT and option 3 = Safe mode. If I select option 3 would it not boot or try to boot to safe mode? |
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That's good news. How did you fix the problem? Was it by using scanreg
/restore or was it by some other method? -- Mike Maltby canna wrote: Thanks Mike, my computer works again. |
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I did exactly what you said, created the boot disk, booted to DOS then
SCANREG/ RESTORE. I selected the day before I used Xen and restarted (removing the floppy first). Many thanks for your help. Canna. "Mike M" wrote: That's good news. How did you fix the problem? Was it by using scanreg /restore or was it by some other method? -- Mike Maltby canna wrote: Thanks Mike, my computer works again. |
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Canna,
Thanks for responding. It's always useful to know what worked (and also what didn't) as it helps when trying to help others with similar problems. Cheers, -- Mike Maltby canna wrote: I did exactly what you said, created the boot disk, booted to DOS then SCANREG/ RESTORE. I selected the day before I used Xen and restarted (removing the floppy first). Many thanks for your help. |
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No problem glad tohelp the helper and others. One thing that I've though of
that my be of use to other is... Is there a quick way of booting to DOS? I went into my setup and changed the 1st boot from IDE 0 to floppy. I was just wondering how would you do it? Cheers. "Mike M" wrote: Canna, Thanks for responding. It's always useful to know what worked (and also what didn't) as it helps when trying to help others with similar problems. Cheers, -- Mike Maltby canna wrote: I did exactly what you said, created the boot disk, booted to DOS then SCANREG/ RESTORE. I selected the day before I used Xen and restarted (removing the floppy first). Many thanks for your help. |
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