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re: Can't get beyond Registry Error found Screen Monday, September 6, 2004 at 10:24 am Posted by J.R. (2362 messages posted) Put your win98 startup floppy (boot floppy) in the floppy drive and boot the computer to a DOS prompt [A:\>]: A:\>scanreg /restore (press enter on the keyboard) and select a date before the error happened. Note: there is a space between scanreg and / Pappy [If it ain't broke don't fix it] [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get beyond Registry Error found Screen Monday, September 6, 2004 at 12:52 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) That can indicate either registry corruption or memory (RAM) problems. If you restored a registry backup, as suggested by Pappy, and whether or not that got rid of the error message, I suggest you run the Registry Checker to repair/rebuild the system's registry. It's not difficult and hopefully will take care of it. It has for me, more than once. To do so, you need to boot to the Command Prompt. Reboot and hold the CTRL key down, until you get the boot menu. Choose Command prompt only. At the C:\> type scanreg/fix Hit Enter. Windows will attempt to repair/rebuild the registry. This takes a few minutes. When done Hit Enter again. At the next C:\ prompt, type: scanreg/opt to clear empty space in the registry. Note: you'll see no activity during this. It's just a few seconds. Press Enter again, then press CTRL_ALT_DEL or type: win and hit Enter to get back into Windows. Microsoft KB Article: Registry Checker Continues to Detect Registry Damage [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum