re: Can't install Open Office -- Broken kernel Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 2:55 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed (659 messages posted) If the problem recurs, to recover from a simple registry corruption boot to DOS (using a bootable floppy disk, e.g. from http://www.bootdisk.com) and type the following at the C:\ prompt - SCANREG /RESTORE Note the space before the forward slash in this command. Follow the on-screen instructions, and try to restore the *oldest* backup of the registry (they're listed by date) as that's the one with the best chance of being from before the problem arose. By default Windows keeps 5 backup copies of the Windows Registry, so that you can go back to before the problem arose. When an on-screen message tells you that the registry has been successfully restored, restart the computer normally. Ed On Monday, October 8, 2007 at 10:23 pm, dark_lady01 wrote: >Thank you anyway to both of your suggestions. At the end of everything, I just reformatted >the darn thing and reinstalled everything. Somehow, the registry must have been corrupted >but I am up and running well now. ^_^ Written in response to: re: Can't install Open Office -- Broken kernel (dark_lady01: Monday, October 8, 2007 at 10:23 pm) Responses to this message: re: Can't install Open Office - up and running well now (Joe Hepperle: Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 11:45 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Can't install Open Office (dark_lady01: Thu, Oct 4, 2007, 8:53 am) re: Can't install Open Office (gewg_: Thu, Oct 4, 2007, 12:23 pm) re: Can't install Open Office (Joe Hepperle: Fri, Oct 5, 2007, 9:37 am) re: Can't install Open Office (gewg_: Fri, Oct 5, 2007, 12:45 pm) re: Can't install Open Office (Joe Hepperle: Sat, Oct 6, 2007, 2:43 pm) re: Can't install Open Office (gewg_: Sat, Oct 6, 2007, 6:15 pm) re: Can't install Open Office (Joe Hepperle: Mon, Oct 8, 2007, 7:00 am) re: Can't install Open Office -- Broken kernel (gewg_: Mon, Oct 8, 2007, 10:22 am) re: Can't install Open Office -- Broken kernel (dark_lady01: Mon, Oct 8, 2007, 10:23 pm) re: Can't install Open Office -- Broken kernel (Ed: Sun, Oct 28, 2007, 2:55 pm) re: Can't install Open Office - up and running well now (Joe Hepperle: Sun, Oct 28, 2007, 11:45 pm) re: Can't install Open Office - up and running well now (Ed: Thu, Nov 1, 2007, 9:08 pm) re: Good Job Ed! (Joe Hepperle: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 12:10 am) re: Is Doctor Ballmer in the house? (Joe Hepperle: Tue, Oct 9, 2007, 3:23 am) 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 98 Discussion Forum