PLEASE HELP!!! REGISTRY problem

[kevincassels]

I have an IBM NteVista running Windows Millennium. One night I turned off my computer, came back the next day, and THIS is what it said when I booted....

"Windows may be unable to process the registry. This may be fixed by rebooting to the Command Prompt Only & running SCANREG /FIX. Otherwise there may not be enough free conventional memory to properly run the registry."

Then suddenly it shift into normal mode.

How can I reboot to Command Prompt Only? Will this work? What the hell is a registry?

Please help....thanks

[Jarhed7276]

Hi Kevin,

To boot to Command Prompt continually hit your F8 key while rebooting. This should take you to a menu where you will be given the choice of booting to a command prompt. Once at the prompt type in Scanreg /fix.

Will this work? Only God and Bill Gates knows.

The registry is a system data base that holds information that tells your pc how to boot up and what programs to load on bootup.

Hope this will help you. Good luck.

Gerry

[HeadBand]

if it can get to normal mode doing a system restore can do the same thing with a more userfriendly enviornment...just go back to when it was working properly

[Bill in SD, CA]

I didn't know ME had a system restore.

Gerry's advice should work.

Bill

Welcome to TechIMO BTW!!

[HeadBand]

yes ME does have a system restore but you might have to install it in add/remove windows programs or whatever its called

[osprey4]

System restore is installed by default. It will run in safe mode or normal. But if your registry is corrupted due to a corrupted file, it may not work.

Boot using a Boot Disk, and run the registry repair from the command prompt.