Damaged KEy

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Sylvain

Good Morning,

After an electrical power failure I was unable to use the software I was
using when the power failure occured.

I narrow down the problem to a registry key that contain information that
the software use for a specific user. When I tried to delete the KEY (in
hkey_user) the computer simply REBOOT. How can I repair the registry or
simply delete the corrupted key. But I think that I MUST repair the registry
to avoid futur problem !

Thanks in advance

Sylvain
 
If it's in the current user hive then the simplest method would be to delete
the user profile.


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Hi,

Do you mean deleting the user account from control panel !! ?. This will
notfix the registry !. Has I said itès only a key inside Hkey_user and itès a
key for the software I was using !.

Is there another way to fix the registry than booting with a XP disk ?

Ty,

Sylvain

Dave Patrick said:
If it's in the current user hive then the simplest method would be to delete
the user profile.


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Sylvain said:
Good Morning,

After an electrical power failure I was unable to use the software I was
using when the power failure occured.

I narrow down the problem to a registry key that contain information that
the software use for a specific user. When I tried to delete the KEY (in
hkey_user) the computer simply REBOOT. How can I repair the registry or
simply delete the corrupted key. But I think that I MUST repair the
registry
to avoid futur problem !

Thanks in advance

Sylvain
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I'll do so on tuesday because the problem is on a computer at work !

Thank's a lot,

Sylvain

Dave Patrick said:
Can you post the path? (you can use 'Copy Key Name' from regedit.exe)


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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Sylvain said:
Hi,

Do you mean deleting the user account from control panel !! ?. This will
notfix the registry !. Has I said itès only a key inside Hkey_user and
itès a
key for the software I was using !.

Is there another way to fix the registry than booting with a XP disk ?

Ty,

Sylvain
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Good Morning,

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4272087686-3932876179-2238818366-1141\Software\PC
SOFT\WinDev\9.0\CAROLE

Inside that key there is a lot of subkey but all of those can be deleted it
only contain user preference for Windev !

Thanks in advance for your precious help,


Sylvain

Dave Patrick said:
Ok

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Sylvain said:
I'll do so on tuesday because the problem is on a computer at work !

Thank's a lot,

Sylvain
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Hi,

After a little bit of reading, I assume that HKEY_USER is dynamically
created with HKEY_CURRENT_USER value depending on wich user his logon.

So this is what I'm trying now

1- I'm currently running a CHKDSK on drive C

2- I'll delete the value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER

I'm pretty sure it will fix my problem,

If not I'll come back and ask for additionnal advise ! :)

Thank you very much for ur precious time,

Sylvain

Dave Patrick said:
Ok

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Sylvain said:
I'll do so on tuesday because the problem is on a computer at work !

Thank's a lot,

Sylvain
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Hi,

As you probably already know ! :). MY solution didn't work trying to delete
the HKEY_CURRECT_USER key do the same the computer simply REBOOT !

So I'm really stuck now !. Please give me advise to fix the problem

Thanks in advance and Best Regards,

Sylvain
 
I'd still delete the user profile. Example username = joe

Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\joe and delete the joe folder.



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