re: Can't install Open Office - up and running well now
Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joe Hepperle
(73 messages posted)
Hi Ed !
Just thought I'd holler at ya. Sounds like good advice that you gave but I'm sure
you meant to post it somewhere else, since dark_lady01 has already solved
her problem. Much of the advice you give to others is good, so I'm sure you meant
to post this somewhere. I thought I'd let ya know so you can look for the still-existing
problem where you probably intended to post this.
Hers was a "Can't install Open Office..." problem, rather than a specific registry
problem. (Notwithstanding that "gewg" and I wrote the words "registry" and "corrupt"
more than a few times in our collective "groupthink", atempting to come to a solution
for dark_lady01).
dark_lady01 herself did not mention anything about registry problem or a corrupt
registry. She wrote that her [OpenOffice] installed files were corrupted or incomplete.
And she was getting Kernel error messages.
When dark_lady01 wrote "...I am up and running well now..." I thought that
was the end of it...?
Did I miss something?
Joe Hepperle
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On Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 1:55 pm, Ed wrote:
>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 -
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>SCANREG /RESTORE
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>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.
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>Ed
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