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I'm having problems with the Win98se Registery when I boot. It nearly always says that there's a problem with my registry and scans my user.dat and system.dat files and either says it has/has not fixed the problem.
The weird thing is Windows runs fine it is just taking ages to boot, does anybody know a way to turn of the registry scan on boot or experianced this problem before.
All sugestions welcome.
Mike the Techie
Remove the Scanreg entry from the registry. Should be under HKLM/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run or runservices.
Registry errors are often a sign of a memory problem. Could also be caused by a virus or startup program.
To get a useable registry you can rename system.dat and copy the system.1st file to the windows folder as system.dat. This file is created during the installation process and is a good recovery option if you don't have another backup of the registry. Be aware that a lot of your programs will need to be reinstalled if you choose to do this. It could be a problem in the user.dat file also but I don't know of any way to fix this without reinstalling windows.
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Start > Run > msconfig
Goto the 'Startup' tab & deselect 'ScanRegistry'.
U might want2 go through sum of the other settings while ur there... <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">