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formatting that is. I'm a good friend of formatting, but currently I'm running 98SE, and I'm just trying to hold my machine together for the next month or so until I upgrade my mobo. Everytime I get to windows, I get "Windows encountered an erroer accessing the system registry. Winddows will restart and repair the system registry for you." Only problem is, I get the message EVERY time i restart. I've been in and out of the registry over the past week, but the error just came up today, no problem yesterday or the day before...

I could format and reinstall, but...talk about a b*tch, only one more month and Gates has got to shove it right up my...eh, back to the post, got any suggestions?

Good thing I can still compute, I just got a little error floating over everything...

go to the dos prompt (well actually the commands folder in your windows dir) try to type this:

C:\>Scanreg /?

That should pop up a list of stuff you can chose from, if I remember correctly. Find which one says "last known good" or something along those lines (it's been a while if you can't tell) and try to boot with the registry from a couple days ago... ...it should work fine I would think.

Now you learn you should backup your registry in Win9x pretty often I usually backup now anytime I make a big change....

I have a modified bootdisk that you should check out. I made a readme to remind me what I have in there and this is what it says:

<i>"Just for my knowlege, this is my own
modified Win9x bootable floppy. It
does not do PCI bus scans for add-on
RAID/SCSI adapters. If you want this
back, make your own bootable floppy
in Win9x.

This also contains a modified FDISK
utility specifically for Win98SE
so that you can partition hard drives
up to 130gb or somethin' around there."</i>

I also have some other dos apps which the Win9x floppy doesn't include.

eh, that's weird...I tried that in Windows, and the window closed as soon as it opened...restarted in Safe Mode, tried the check, and it said it found no errors...restart again, and no message. Whatever! well, thanks Hipno_T, hopefully I won't have any more f*ck ups until I upgrade.....

If you can get yourself a copy of Win2K, I'd highly recommend upgrading your fresh install of Win98 to that as I've done that to my 4 PCs here and they're all rock stable ever since. I've also tryed XP Pro but I didn't care for it or its driver related problems with older stuff. With Win2K, you won't be needing to do occasional formats, etc UNLESS you do something drastic to the OS and that's not as easy with Win2K. Just my opinion.

i'll second the motion for win2k - like a rock - we still have 98 on the machines at work, i have to reboot mine at least once a day for who knows what reason - may amd and intel rigs at home only get rebooted when 1) the power goes off 2) i install software requiring a reboot

2k is solid, mature and has all the drivers - i'll wait until SP3 comes out on XP