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To: Bull RidaH who wrote (37669)	10/19/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

OT - Windows Crash out recovery tricks * I saw this and I know this kinda crap has happened to me, so I bet it has happened to many of you!!! Great info on recovering the registry for Win Crashes so you don't pull a Pat and bust out your "pain" glass and make a mess of your driveway :-) ================= EnsignList - ensignsoftware.com 10/13/99 Some users in the Discussion Group are continuously changing their computer systems by adding more hardware such as multiple monitors and more hard disks or zip disks etc (myself included). Sometimes this means the user is poking around in the device manager list to add or remove device drivers and sometimes this will be fatal to your machine. I personally just crashed my new P3-500 by removing a PCI - IRQ driver which caused my machine to detect new hardware at each bootup, go into a loop, then reboot continuously. There is a hidden recovery program in your Windows based system that will restore the registry if you accidentally destroy the registry like I did - and I thought I knew what I was doing all the time. Start up the computer into SAFE MODE by pressing the F8 key at the beginning of the Windows bootup. Select option 5 which is to go directly to Command Prompt. This will give you the standard DOS prompt for the C drive. Now type in the following command: C:>SCANREG /RESTORE This will display a list with the last 4 dates when you correctly shutdown Windows. A current copy of the registry is saved during the shutdown process with the date. Pick a date from the list when you last had a WORKING COMPUTER and before you starting changing configurations. Then click RESTORE and the registry will be restored to that previous date. Now you can restart your computer and it should bootup in the configuration that existed on the date selected. This worked perfectly on my new P3-500 and I will now be more careful when I start changing configurations to maximize performance and fine tune the system. A more detailed discussion is found in the Windows 98 Resource Kit on page 1266. This book is full of Windows technical stuff and costs $70. Dr. John Arrington