re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work Friday, May 23, 2008 at 1:13 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Blue Wizard (4 messages posted) Okay, the computer's working somewhat now. Here's what I did: First I ran chkdsk /r from the Recovery Console (turned out not to be directly related, but it didn't hurt). When I rebooted the blue screen error stuck around longer, and I could tell that it was a problem with the file "systemroot\system32\config\SOFTWARE", which apparently is the registry. After searching around the internet, I found a quick fix that involved copying a virgin WINNT\repair\SOFTWARE into the system32\config folder. Good news is that the computer boots up without a hitch. Bad news is that none of my startup services seem to be working. I guess I should go ahead and re-install all my software. Thanks for the help. Written in response to: re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (DEX: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 6:25 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (Blue Wizard: Tue, May 20, 2008, 9:01 am) re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (DEX: Tue, May 20, 2008, 9:38 pm) re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (Blue Wizard: Wed, May 21, 2008, 10:21 am) re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (DEX: Wed, May 21, 2008, 11:25 am) re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (Blue Wizard: Wed, May 21, 2008, 1:01 pm) re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (DEX: Wed, May 21, 2008, 6:25 pm) re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (Blue Wizard: Fri, May 23, 2008, 1:13 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum