Registry change = No Boot

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Harry H

Whilst carrying out a change suggested in a KB I modified the registry and
now the PC will not boot.
The XP Pro loading screen comes up ( i.e. the one prior to Welcome) but the
scrolling blue bar suddenly stops and that's it.

Prior to modifying the registry I did export it to C:\.

There is no ASR data or anything similar - as far as I'm aware.

Any ideas ? I'm sure that if I could restore the old registry I'd be back in
service.

TIA
HH
 
If you didn't export the registry to a safe location "prior" to changing it,
you have no way to get the old registry back - unless you have a Drive Image
or similar.

You could try booting into "safe" mode (as THE administrator), and
attempting repairs from there. But without a registry backup....
 
Turns out that it was probably not the reg. edit causing the problem.
But this leads me on to another question/problem.
When I left the machine that night it was trying to do a safe boot but was
stuck at *........... Drivers\Mups.sys*.(I think)
Next morning at 07h30 - still stuck there.[this was not the first time
that I'd tried a safe boot that had'nt worked but as the machine was needed
to be in service urgently I ignored it - after all mormal boot was working
fine]
As the PC was still under guarantee and the dealer has a *walk-in* repair
service I took it there and - yeah, you guessed it- the damned thing booted
straight away .
The only things that had changed were the removal of the 220v (obviously
it's a latest type ATX M/B & PSU) and the trip to to the dealer's workshop.

Maybe , like most of us, the PC thinks that it's good to get out of the
office once in a while.

Thanks anyway
Harry
 
Maybe , like most of us, the PC thinks that it's good to get out of the
office once in a while.
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Could be Harry. Glad all is well. :o)

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Bill said:
Turns out that it was probably not the reg. edit causing the problem.
But this leads me on to another question/problem.
When I left the machine that night it was trying to do a safe boot but was
stuck at *........... Drivers\Mups.sys*.(I think)
Next morning at 07h30 - still stuck there.[this was not the first time
that I'd tried a safe boot that had'nt worked but as the machine was needed
to be in service urgently I ignored it - after all mormal boot was working
fine]
As the PC was still under guarantee and the dealer has a *walk-in* repair
service I took it there and - yeah, you guessed it- the damned thing booted
straight away .
The only things that had changed were the removal of the 220v (obviously
it's a latest type ATX M/B & PSU) and the trip to to the dealer's workshop.

Maybe , like most of us, the PC thinks that it's good to get out of the
office once in a while.

Thanks anyway
Harry




Kelly said:
Hi Harry,

Exactly which edit and which article? This could be important to other
users.

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but
the back
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try the recovery console, winxp did auto backup the registry for you in this
locaton windows\repair,the files "system,default,software...."are just
them,there are totaly five files without extention.

since i didn't meet such problems ,i also don't konw exactly how to fix it
,you had better refer some more advise
 
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