Corrupted registry after systemstart!
Thomas Guentensperger
After using Win95 for months and months, today i got an error-message
(Registry is corruped, please reboot). I did so, but the message keeps
coming up every time I reboot the system.
HELP!
Thanks
thomas guentensperger
Ron Livingston
You can try REGCLEAN (available from M$)
or go the the windows directory and rename the
sytem.da0 and user.da0 to system.dat and user.dat
I would make a backup first
Hope this helps
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Michael Schapansky
I'm having the same, if not a worse problem. I had the problem you
describe for a couple of months worsening each week until the machine
would only boot into safe mode. Even then, I'd get the registry problem.
I tryed changing the registry files with the .cln copies. No good. I
finally resorted on friday to uncompressing my compressed disk, reformating
and reinstalling DOS, Win 3.11 and then Win 95. Just 10 minutes ago I got
a registry error!! How is this possible on a completely clean system?
I'm still working at it.
Thomas Guentensperger <tho...@guentensperger.ch> wrote in article
<32E7E2...@guentensperger.ch>...
Johan Vansevenant
"Michael Schapansky" <mich...@bga.com> wrote:
I solved those registry problems by replacing the memory. There no
diagnostics program that eventualy marked those sims as bad. I even
tested these rams with a hardware simm-tester.
My conclusion is: Some rams don't work in some motherboards. It's
difficult to pin-point the exact cause of this. As a small
system-assembler i now know when this registry problems crops up, just
replace (or reseat) the simms. Of course there could be other causes
of those errors, but for the moment this has been my best remedy.
Johan
William C. Folker
In article <01bc0afe$cce59460$e29f...@michael1.bga.com>,
"Michael Schapansky" <mich...@bga.com> wrote:
>
>I'm having the same, if not a worse problem. I had the problem you
>describe for a couple of months worsening each week until the machine
>would only boot into safe mode. Even then, I'd get the registry problem.
>I tryed changing the registry files with the .cln copies. No good. I
>finally resorted on friday to uncompressing my compressed disk, reformating
>and reinstalling DOS, Win 3.11 and then Win 95. Just 10 minutes ago I got
>a registry error!! How is this possible on a completely clean system?
>I'm still working at it.
>
>Thomas Guentensperger <tho...@guentensperger.ch> wrote in article
><32E7E2...@guentensperger.ch>...
>> After using Win95 for months and months, today i got an error-message
>> (Registry is corruped, please reboot). I did so, but the message keeps
>> coming up every time I reboot the system.
>>
Gentlemen --
Believe me, I can sympathize with your current plight.
My Windows95 Registry crashed twice in December, the second time
practically for good. My computer manufacturer's Tech Support
recommends re-installing Windows95, directly on top of itself in
cases of Registry corruption.
Sometimes this doesn't work. If it doesn't, I'd recommend renaming
*all* of your Registry files (system.dat/.da0, user.dat/.da0; 4 files,
and *all* are attributed as hidden, read-only, system, located within
the Windows folder...also the system.1st file, attributed as hidden,
read-only, and system, upon the boot drive.) with an .xxx extension, and
re-install Windows95, again, hoping that the newest re-installation will
give you a new/rebuilt Registry.
If that last option doesn't work, my computer manufacturer's Tech
Support recommends re-formatting the hard disk, etc., etc.
That was the position that I was in on December 30th. I didn't do it.
I remembered that I had back-up copies of my user.dat and system.dat
files, from way back in June, somewhere within my stacks of floppies.
I renamed my user.dat and system.dat in my Windows folder, and replaced
them with the back-up copies from June, that I _knew_ were good. I did
that, rather than an overwrite, because a DOS-session ScanDisk, after my
Registry crash, declared that the locations of my corrupted Registry files
were 'bad clusters'. Then I rebooted, and I'm Registry error free, to this
day, using a 6-7 month old Registry back-up. Replacing corrupted Registry
files with _known_ good back-ups will even prevent re-installing Windows95!
I'm sorry that I could not help you much with your current problems, nor
give suitable explanations, but, making routine back-ups of your user.dat
and system.dat files, weekly or monthly, will save you from Registry errors
in the future. This also should apply to Windows NT.
-- Good Luck --
Disclaimer: I'm trying to help out with information that has worked for me,
previously. I do not warrant that this information might work on your
machine, with your particular configuration, and/or your version of Windows95.
Take *all* information received in newsgroups on your own advisement.